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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (26 Feb 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the deficit of intern places for medical graduates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10237/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County and City Enterprise Boards (28 Feb 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to whom a complaint regarding a county enterprise board should be made (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10736/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Installation Aid Scheme Applications (28 Feb 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an application for an installation aid grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been processed in view of the fact that a valid photocopy certificate of posting was received by his Department in August 2009 in respect of an earlier application; in view of circumstances involved if the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (28 Feb 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an agri-environment options scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10842/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (28 Feb 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an agri environment option scheme 2012 payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10849/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (5 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an agri-environment options scheme payment for 2012 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11691/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (5 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health the funds available from his Department to support cancer care organisations; the date by which applications have to be made;what the funding is available for [11235/13]

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this motion. For the past two years, this Government has consistently striven to ensure that the cost of private health insurance for ordinary families in Ireland is kept down and our efforts in this regard will have to continue for the months and years ahead. It is a complex issue involving competition in the market place, the base cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domestic Humanitarian Aid (7 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in relation to persons who have applied for relocation following the flooding in Galway in 2009, the number of persons who have accepted contracts; the number of those who are waiting on contracts to be returned from her Department; when payments will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12144/13]

Autism Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am glad of the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I will keep my comments brief as a number of Deputies wish to contribute. I commend Deputy McCarthy on bringing this Bill before the House. Many of the relevant issues have already been discussed and I agree with what Deputy Harris has said. I wish to make one key point, however. Some parents have approached me who are concerned about...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. In decades past, the idea that Garda vetting had to be carried out before one could take up any position was unthinkable yet it is now a fact of everyday life, and that change in society must be reflected in terms of the way previous convictions are dealt with and the length of the shadow they can cast upon a person's life. Recent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (12 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will allow the drug sativex to be distributed to multiple sclerosis sufferers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12499/13]

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to the motion. I support the amendment to it and the intense focus the Government is placing on supporting job creation through the Action Plan for Jobs. While I welcome major job announcements made during the tenure of the Government, including 500 jobs in gaming firms EA and BioWare, it is the Government's focus on exporting firms and the small...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to the motion. I support the amendment to it and the intense focus the Government is placing on supporting job creation through the Action Plan for Jobs. While I welcome major job announcements made during the tenure of the Government, including 500 jobs in gaming firms EA and BioWare, it is the Government's focus on exporting firms and the small...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person [details supplied] in County Galway will receive a decision from the Appeals Office in relation to their claim for jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13376/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she intends to take on foot of recommendations in the report on the disability sector by Watson and Nolan; her plans in terms of getting persons on disability back into the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13208/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person [details supplied] in County Galway will receive a decision from the Appeals Office in relation to their claim for jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13376/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health when a person [details supplied] in County Galway will be assessed by the Health Service Executive West Occupational Health Department in order for a decision to be made on an application to retire on the grounds of permanent infirmity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13375/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (14 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Thankfully, I came down earlier than I had expected to, otherwise there could have been another mishap. I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for the opportunity to raise this issue. The situation at Toghermore House, Tuam, County Galway, has been raised as a Topical Issue before. It is a 24-hour mental health facility on the site of other mental health facilities, including a day hospital....

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (14 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State when I say the Topical Issues debate becomes a farce if one Minister of State arrives into the Chamber and proceeds to read out four scripts. I received the answer he has just read from the HSE one week ago. I asked a series of questions on the cost of the fire safety works, the identities of the individuals being appointed to the review board...