Results 381-400 of 2,137 for speaker:Jerry Cowley

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (23 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I call Deputy Ó Snodaigh to speak for the 90 seconds which remain before the sitting is suspended.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason persons (details supplied) in County Mayo have been refused rent supplement that would enable them to transfer from their current address to more suitable accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21858/05]

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: The legislation in which I am interested is that which will protect those people who will have a high pressure gas pipeline beside their houses and who will be thrown in jail because they are in fear of their lives——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: This pipeline will be located beside these people's homes and they have no choice but to live in them. They just want to get on with their lives but they face the threat of being sent to jail.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is accepted by her Department that existing cystic fibrosis services here are below basic international standard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22663/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE working group confirms the findings of the Pollock report; if the funding necessary to address the immediate short and long-term requirements of cystic fibrosis sufferers will be allocated; if she will address the current situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22664/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is prepared to put forward a special case that will allow the permanent recruitment of staff, in view of the employment ceiling cap; if the HSE working group endorses the findings of the Pollock report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22665/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she is prepared to meet the Cystic Fibrosis Association; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22666/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the safety of cystic fibrosis patients is being compromised due to inadequate staffing and facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22667/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department is willing to consider public and private partnerships as an option to fast-track the provision of internationally acceptable services for cystic fibrosis patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22668/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way she would react if a hospital were to deny access to a cystic fibrosis sufferer to hospital care, due to overcrowding and the risk of exposure to cross-infection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22669/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 261: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will give a commitment for adequate funding for the resourcing of services to address the needs of cystic fibrosis patients due to the fact that funding for cystic fibrosis sufferers is described as unstable and at risk from other pressures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22670/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a designated oncology unit will be provided to Mayo General Hospital in view of the appointment of a second oncologist at the hospital; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that currently the oncology section at the hospital is four chairs in a temporary ward (details supplied); and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Offshore Exploration: Offshore Exploration (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 344: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide the maximum permissible operating pressure of the 9 km upstream Corrib gas pipeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22456/05]

Written Answers — Health and Safety Authority Investigations: Health and Safety Authority Investigations (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 413: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 409 of 14 June 2005, his views on whether the work on the section on which the accident took place could not possibly have been completed in that a permanent surface still needed to be applied and the application of these lines to the road were clearly premature in that they were meant...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 592: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) who was fatally injured in a road traffic accident on 27 December 2004 in Donegal and the failure of the Donegal Garda to adequately investigate this road traffic accident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22255/05]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 719: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to an application for an extension by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in March 1999; when this will go to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22453/05]

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (28 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 785: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is realistic and unfair to ask independent electrical retailers to carry the costs of disposing of electronic waste and turning these premises into civic amenity centres for the disposal of fridges, washing machines, small appliances and batteries, with fridges being classed as hazardous waste in view...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (29 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, that landowners and residents of Rossport, County Mayo, who are in mortal fear for their lives, are being thrown into jail because they are asserting their right to live on their own property without a potentially lethal high pressure gas pipeline being imposed on them. It is a disgrace.

Offshore Islands. (29 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will consider introducing a scheme whereby island residents who are mentally or physically impaired are offered a relocation or rehousing option on the mainland to enable them to avail of necessary services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22706/05]