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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when Professor Drumm will visit Roscommon County Hospital; when he will meet with the surgical team at the hospital; when she expects to receive his report and recommendations on the future of in-patient surgery at the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24166/08]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (19 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of an application under the sports capital programme by a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the value of funding being sought; if his attention has been drawn to the positive impact that this funding will have in the local community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24167/08]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (19 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of an application under the sports capital programme by a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the value of funding being sought; if his attention has been drawn to the positive impact that this funding will have on the development of an integrated sports campus in the town; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (19 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 191: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to allow commercial turf cutting under permit on designated bogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24116/08]

Written Answers — Electoral Boundaries: Electoral Boundaries (19 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 203: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to implement the Constituency Commission report; his views on requesting the commission to review its decision with amended terms of reference; the timetable involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24234/08]

Tourism Industry. (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the plans there are to review the national development plan and its targets for tourism development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19801/08]

Tourism Industry. (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for his reply. There is no doubt that in recent years we have seen increases, year on year, in the number of tourists coming to this country. There will be a significant curtailment this year, but to what level we will have to wait and see. I wish to ask the Minister about the regional element of tourism because the difficulty is that my part of the country, namely the...

Tourism Industry. (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Hear, hear.

Tourism Industry. (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: The fundamental flaw regarding the issues I have raised is that no one is articulating a view on behalf of the counties that are least developed. Surely it would make sense to have a regional body promoting the single biggest waterway in the country, the River Shannon, rather than the current situation where the river is used as a dividing line between the various regions.

Tourism Industry. (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: When they are clustering, they cluster away from the Shannon, rather than towards it.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Derailed.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: The question relates to Supplementary Estimates.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: I must be in the Ceann Comhairle's blind spot. Both of my questions are in order. Given the Minister for Health and Children's comments last week, a Supplementary Estimate will address the issue raised by Deputy Reilly. Will the Taoiseach confirm this? On promised legislation, four months have passed since the closing date for sports capital grants applications. When will the grants be...

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: In the context of the public health miscellaneous provisions Bill, will provision be made in the grant aid to ensure all sports groups have defibrillators?

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: What of the Supplementary Estimate?

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the plans he has to improve regional balance in sports capital funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19802/08]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 4 March 2008, when she expects proposals from her Department to be submitted to the Government regarding legislation on eligibility for health and personal social services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24366/08]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 419 of 26 September 2007, when the 34-bed unit will be built at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, for the treatment of cystic fibrosis; the reason the Health Service Executive is refusing to answer this specific request for an update; her views on whether such a practice by the HSE is acceptable;...

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 236: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the budget available under the sports capital grant programme 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24345/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Payments: Social Welfare Payments (24 Jun 2008)

Denis Naughten: Question 250: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will continue to maximise the role of post offices by way of all social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24421/08]