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Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Liz McManus: The Tánaiste is now saying it will be 2006. Will it be 2007 tomorrow? Is that what we will hear tomorrow?

Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Liz McManus: The charge is not that the Tánaiste is wasting time but that she is misleading the House.

Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Liz McManus: He is entitled to an answer.

Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (29 Sep 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the conclusions of a recent military police investigation that two members of the Defence Forces were guilty of bullying at McKee Barracks in Dublin; the number of other such investigations that are under way in the Defence Forces; his further views on whether bullying is endemic within the Defence Forces; the efforts he is making to...

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Returning to the Taoiseach's first statement on the totality of IRA weaponry having been decommissioned, will he deal with recent reports in the media that the IRA may have been permitted to keep several hundred weapons for its own use? Has he an assurance from the British Government or General de Chastelain that no side deal has been done in this regard? In the period between now and the...

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: To be blunt, they know the name of the person who committed this crime and that he is a member of the IRA. Is that not the case?

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: So the Taoiseach will not deal with that.

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I know that. They are alleging that they know the person and the Taoiseach has spoken to them.

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Will the Taoiseach raise this issue as a priority with Sinn Féin?

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The parties feel that way.

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I would just like to ask a brief supplementary question.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The Taoiseach suggested the technology is not to blame. I accept there is probably nothing wrong with the PPARS technology. The problem is with the implementation of the technology, which is the Taoiseach's responsibility. No matter how much he wriggles and tries to avoid and evade his responsibility, it is his responsibility. He and the Government are responsible for gross incompetence and...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: At local level, people are making decisions about the lives of others yet they are not accountable to anybody in any democratic sense. That is the record of the Minister for Health and Children appointed by the Taoiseach. Old folks in nursing homes, waiting for the money which was robbed from them, are told they will have to wait until next year, despite previously being told they would get...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: That was a pretty lacklustre statement of confidence in the Minister for Health and Children. The Taoiseach has still not dealt with the issues with regard to the record of the past 12 months. The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste could have issued 30,000 full medical cards six to nine months ago. Once they made that announcement and allocated the funding, members of the public could have had...

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: It was promised to introduce a Bill establishing the health information and quality authority alongside the legislation establishing the Health Service Executive, which was taken last December. However, the Bill never materialised. This legislation was to include an inspectorate of nursing homes. This, along with the repayments Bill to pay elderly people their money, is now listed under the...

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Have they?

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: That is the very word —"drift".

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the accident and emergency and acute services in Ennis General Hospital will be continued or discontinued; if all hospitals that were to lose their accident and emergency and acute services under the Hanly report proposals are no longer to be subject to downgrading; if the Hanly report will be withdrawn; and if she...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 562: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in view of the change of special area of conservation status in relation to a contentious site where planning permission is being sought for a waste management facility in Whitestown, County Wicklow, the practice used to evaluate the scientific considerations for this change; if he has satisfied himself that...