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Written Answers — Nursing Home Accommodation: Nursing Home Accommodation (1 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 428: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of public long stay nursing beds currently available here; the number in 1990; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35735/06]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 429: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of nurses now employed throughout the public health service; the numbers in 1990; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35736/06]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 430: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the full requirement in terms of doctors, nurses, consultants, radiologists, anaesthetists and or other categories of staff required to deliver a high quality health service at the present time; when she expects this level of staffing to be achieved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35737/06]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 431: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role she expects the Naas General Hospital to play in the future delivery of health services; the number of wards currently available for occupation; the numbers occupied; the extent to which the full scale of services as originally anticipated are currently available in the hospital; if all theatres are currently functioning in...

Written Answers — Third Level Education: Third Level Education (1 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which the number of students currently studying medicine is expected to be adequate to meet future requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35726/06]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (1 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 578: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when school placement will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35609/06]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (1 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 589: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a review will be undertaken in the application for educational grant in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35720/06]

Order of Business (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Of course it arises.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: It is very appropriate.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: In view of the appallingly slow provision of broadband on a nationwide basis, will the Government consider withdrawing the electronic communications (miscellaneous provisions) Bill and replacing it with a more comprehensive Bill that would address the issues that now affect the business and domestic community, which anxiously awaits the provision of broadband? Might such legislation be...

Order of Business (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The Tánaiste will not be disappointed.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Next year. Hope springs eternal.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Let the Tánaiste beam it up.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I thought we needed only one Ceann Comhairle.

White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I wish to share time with Deputy Timmins.

White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I compliment the Minister on providing this opportunity to debate this important issue. The reasons for its importance are graphically illustrated by the pictures on our televisions, which serve to focus our minds and attention on those who are less well off than we are, in particular given our historic memory of hunger and starvation in this country. The millennium development goals commit...

White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I am not sure if that will be the effective way to do it. I do not know, as I do not have all the information. There are concerns about it. It might be important for the cohesion and delivery of an improved service to try to ensure, in so far as it is possible, to locate the headquarters in such a way as to be accessible and to minimise the amount of bureaucracy and toing and froing that...

White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: He was elbowed.

Citizens Information Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this legislation. I am somewhat confused because only a couple of years ago I participated in the debate on the forerunner to this Bill, when the name of the agency was changed to Comhairle. I remember querying the purpose of that exercise. I could not understand why the name had to be changed nor could I see a benefit to anyone. The purpose of...

Citizens Information Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Absolutely. That Government should back-up that provision and cut out the nonsense about people not knowing their entitlements. They know their entitlements. However, when they seek them, they meet so many blockades, hurdles, obstacles and obstructions they never receive them. They become exhausted trying to pursue their entitlements and rights. I will raise a related matter on the...