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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 346: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average payment made under the farm assist scheme in Monaghan and Cavan for 2005; the way in which this compares with the national average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4172/06]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 535: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding allocated to Monaghan County Council for disabled person's grants for 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4164/06]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 536: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding allocated to Cavan County Council for disabled person's grants for 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4165/06]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 537: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if responsibility for new housing developments' compliance with disability requirements of part M of the building regulations rests with his Department or with building owners, architects or builders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4166/06]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 538: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only 4% of new housing developments in Dublin are accessible to people with disabilities in breach of part M of the building regulations; his proposals to ensure compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4167/06]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 539: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if building regulations will be reviewed to ascertain if disability measures are being incorporated in new housing as is required under part M of the building regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4168/06]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (7 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 540: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if local authorities are required to inspect buildings to ensure that they comply with disability requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4169/06]

Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: This Finance Bill adopts a softly, softly and somewhat tentative approach in the clear and certain knowledge that the electorate will be the final arbiters on the Government's stewardship in a relatively short space of time. The decision to abolish the favourable remittance basis of income tax was long overdue. Under this system, foreign managers and nationals were only required to pay tax on...

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Ireland's water quality is the envy of the western world, attested to by no less an organisation than the Earth Institute of Columbia University and the Environment School at Yale University in the US. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland the 2006 Environmental Performance Index placed Ireland tenth out of 133 countries for environmental health and 23rd for water quality. That...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (9 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the report A Vision for Change on the future of mental health services in Ireland and its proposal to close and sell all remaining psychiatric hospitals and adjacent land attached to them; the proposal to dispose of St. Davnet's Hospital, Monaghan, and a wide variety of services in...

Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (9 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: As far as the management and streamlining of Europe's air traffic is concerned, the adoption of the Eurocontrol Convention by 34 states is a massive step forward. At a time of rapidly growing demand in air transport, Europe's scattered air traffic management framework is in urgent need of a fundamental overhaul and full Continent-wide integration. The current critical situation of long and...

Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (9 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Yes, I wish to share time with Deputy Crowe.

Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (9 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: On most days, there are upwards of 30,000 flights with more than 3,000 aircraft in the air over Europe at the same time. While that fact would once have given me some cause for concern, thankfully it no longer bothers me so much. In the coming years, this airspace will become busier, as Europe's air traffic has grown by 14% in the past six years and by more than 4.5% within the past 12 months...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that 75% of one-off houses outside Dublin and one third of rural housing schemes are not in compliance with accessibility requirements for people with disabilities under part M of the building regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4950/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person, details supplied, has completed their aspect of the independent external inquiry into the death of a person at Monaghan General Hospital on 14 October 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5018/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person, details supplied, has completed and presented their report into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person at Monaghan General Hospital on 14 October 2005 to her and the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5019/06]

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by the Health Service Executive and its predecessor health boards on leased or rented premises here in each year since 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5199/06]

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 290: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of premises rented or leased here by the Health Service Executive in its various regions; the costs of renting or leasing each of the premises; the person to whom these amounts were payable; the type of contract entered into in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5200/06]

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 305: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the premises rented or leased here by the Health Service Executive in its various regions which have remained unused; the annual expenditure on these premises; the cumulative expenditure on such premises since 2000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5411/06]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timescale for the closure of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, by the Health Service hospital north east and for the construction of a new hospital to replace it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5408/06]