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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the Age Action Ireland recommendation that the distinction between services for the elderly who are 65 and over and services for persons with disabilities who are under 65 should be reviewed as it puts limits on what could be provided for those over 65 with a disability or younger...

Housing Developments: Motion (Resumed). (23 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and compliment my colleague Deputy Gilmore, the Labour party spokesperson on the environment and local government, on tabling this motion. We are delighted with the support we are receiving.

Housing Developments: Motion (Resumed). (23 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: I am sharing with Deputy Upton. Deputy Gilmore made the interesting point that domestic rates were abolished in 1977. Now we are getting rates back under another name, an imposition in the form of management charges for housing estates and apartment blocks. I will not go into the nitty gritty of this because Deputy Upton has some interesting cases to reveal on this matter and I will not...

Housing Developments: Motion (Resumed). (23 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: I have no time for this exercise in privatisation or for everything existing for the benefit of a few at the expense of many. Many estates where they charge this money are publicly owned and all services are provided by the local authorities. Developers grab their share of services for which people have paid their taxes. This is the essence of the problem and should provoke a rebellion...

Written Answers — Commissions of Investigation: Commissions of Investigation (23 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposal for the inquiry into the Grangegorman murders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35740/05]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (23 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposal for the establishment of a one-stop-shop for dealing with all immigration matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35739/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be admitted for a CAT scan at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36065/05]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (24 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Transport the proposed timescale for the addition of the remaining 65 offences to the penalty points scheme. [35913/05]

Written Answers — Road Fatalities: Road Fatalities (24 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the estimated economic cost of each road death; and the breakdown of this figure. [35912/05]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 who is on the national purchase treatment fund list will have the procedure carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36230/05]

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (24 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason lands contained in a folio and originally in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath when in fact they were consolidated with another folio, remain registered in the name of another person; if he will ensure that the title to a folio is duly updated to take account of the situation which...

Leaders' Questions. (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: He might be right.

Leaders' Questions. (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: The Minister has not a leg to stand on.

Leaders' Questions. (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: The Minister would have supported William Martin Murphy.

Leaders' Questions. (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: He is in the employers' pockets.

Leaders' Questions. (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: I know exactly his position.

Leaders' Questions. (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: The Minister should forget the spears and get on with sorting out the problem.

Leaders' Questions. (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: It is easy to be all talk and smart.

Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31: Irish Ferries Dispute. (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: They have had many successors.

Written Answers — Radon Gas Levels: Radon Gas Levels (29 Nov 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 73: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the RPII has requested him to reintroduce the radon remediation grant scheme for householders. [36562/05]