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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 549: To ask the Minister for Health the amount that the Health Service Executive paid in rent to private landlords from 2007 for temporary facilities to take care of psychiatric patients while awaiting the completion of the new psychiatric care unit adjoining Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal. [25955/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Contracts: Hospital Contracts (27 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 550: To ask the Minister for Health the details of all private cleaning contractors who have secured tenders for laundry services at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; the cost of each tender; and the rationale for the different tenders. [25956/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 559: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the number of patients that Letterkenny General Hospital, LGH, County Donegal, caters for on an annual basis and the scale of medical specialties available in the hospital, if he will now upgrade the status of LGH from general to regional. [26154/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 560: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a nine month waiting list for an echocardiogram appointment (details supplied) at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26169/11]

Garda Stations (28 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is serious alarm across Donegal about possible Garda station closures. Local newspapers and other media have reported the story, as well as naming the locations involved. It all started because a report in The Irish Times which specifically mentioned 24 stations across County Donegal that had been put to the Garda Commissioner. I tabled a parliamentary question to the Minister for...

Garda Stations (28 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What conduct?

Garda Stations (28 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is unfortunate the Minister has demeaned his office with cheap remarks. I can assure him that my reputation as a partner to the Garda Síochána in Donegal is second to none. I ask him to check with the Garda Commissioner and his colleagues as to my reputation in Donegal in that regard. I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them in confronting criminality in that county over recent years....

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current state of preparation regarding his plans for free general practitioner care. [26390/11]

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy has never been sorry in his life.

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (29 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of sports inclusion disability officer positions filled and vacant at this time; his plans to increase participation in sports and physical activity by persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26502/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures being implemented to improve processing times for benefits. [26690/11]

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that the relatively limited damage done by the drought in Kenya and Ethiopia can be attributed to his overall development strategy and that of the international community in those countries; and if he will explain the rationale by which he has funded specific non-governmental organisations during the...

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When we discussed this earlier this year, I raised the issue of the resuscitation of boreholes as one approach that we could take. As the Minister of State will be aware, the first problem in the Horn of Africa, and why there has been a famine declared in a number of regions of Somalia, is the political instability which prevents having a long-term approach such as that we have seen in...

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I commend the Government on its efforts to assist in meeting the $1.87 billion international target that has been set in the context of this immediate emergency. I understand that we have committed more than €10 million and we have said we will commit a further €10 million. We have met our responsibilities. It appears to me that many of our international partners, including EU member...

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I asked whether we are happy that the non-governmental organisations and UN organisations we support - having looked at the list, I am satisfied they are of international repute - have a long-term approach to working on the ground and helping to overcome political instability. We need to ensure agricultural matters are addressed, for example by providing bore holes.

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am just clarifying that long-term solutions are needed.

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that while the principles contained in the White Paper on Irish Aid remain valid, greater transparency and public discussion could lead to stronger adherence to these principles, and hence, to stronger results for poor persons around the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27321/11]

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I understand the Government intends to engage in public consultation on the White Paper on Irish Aid in the first quarter of 2012. In these times when so many of our people are struggling to cope with the austerity measures more than ever we need to demonstrate that Irish Aid is effective in getting aid to those who need it the most. This is a very important area for Ireland, one in which...

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am referring to both donor and programme countries.

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We had the opportunity last week to engage with the Minister of State on the committee, and then with her colleagues Mr. Michael Gaffey at the AWEPA meeting. Is there room for conditionality on aid? This would mean the programme countries clearly meet acceptable international criteria on human rights. We are playing an important and constructive role in aid for Malawi, but there are...