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Written Answers — Energy Efficiency: Energy Efficiency (12 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position regarding the European Parliament's proposal for a target of 20% alternative energy of the total energy market by 2020; his views on adopting this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27866/05]

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: We have been seeking information about home helps for quite a long time and have been unable to get it.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The Tánaiste should know this. She is the Minister and it might be of interest to her.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I have three questions to ask the Tánaiste. Everybody in the House will agree that the framing of Mr. Frank Shortt was one of the most disgraceful miscarriages of justice and one of the worst examples of Garda abuse imaginable. He received an award yesterday which many people feel was relatively modest considering his ordeal. What action is being taken to bring those responsible to court?...

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Forging evidence is a criminal offence.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The Tánaiste might like to take the opportunity to reply to that point. My second question concerns a decision made by the Competition Authority on 11 October about waste management and the Greenstar company in particular. There is a strong statement from the Competition Authority——

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I have.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The Competition Authority's statement calls for a radical overhaul of the regulatory system for household waste management by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. That is a request from the Competition Authority.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Will the Government introduce a new regulatory framework to ensure people do not get ripped off? Since 2001, no information has been available on the extent of reports of child abuse. This matter is in the Tánaiste's area of responsibility. We no longer have that information, which is a matter of grave concern. What will the Tánaiste do to ensure the information on the extent of child abuse...

Written Answers — Abbey Theatre: Abbey Theatre (13 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on proposals for reform of structures of the Abbey Theatre; his further views on the latest efforts being made to address the financial and managerial crisis at the Abbey; if State funding for the Abbey is dependent on the implementation of these reforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28323/05]

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a patient was sent from Dublin to Limerick by taxi at a rate of €600 for minor eye surgery under the national treatment purchase fund while other patients have been denied access to treatment by private hospitals due to the fact that the hospitals had been informed that the national treatment purchase fund has...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I thank the Tánaiste for her reply, but it is not very satisfactory. It was reported that a patient requiring minor eye surgery was transported by taxi from Dublin to Limerick at a cost of €600. That report was made on 7 October, but now the Tánaiste says it is not true. I am surprised, if it was not true, that it was not immediately rebutted. Will the Tánaiste accept there are question...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Is the Minister aware there have been a number of cases where patients were approached by the NTPF, but when they were directed towards a hospital they were denied care? One was a constituent of mine. Is the Minister also aware of a case relating to a person from Dunboyne in County Meath? When the family phoned the hospital, it replied that it had received a written directive from the NTPF...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Does the Tánaiste accept that I have a written reply from the HSE stating there was a change with regard to medical card and means testing for terminally ill patients? I have this in writing and will send it to her. Since I made that statement public, I have received quite a number of letters and phone calls from terminally ill patients or their families stating that they are being means...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: ——and nothing the Tánaiste can say will go against the experiences of terminally ill patients who are being means tested for medical cards-——

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: ——on which the Tánaiste persists in misleading the House and the public.

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The Tánaiste should tell that to the HSE.

MRSA Incidence. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the figures in respect of the number of cases of MRSA in each of the past three years and to date in 2005; the number of fatalities attributable to MRSA; the steps which are being taken to reduce the incidence of MRSA; if her attention has been drawn to the view expressed by top management in the main teaching hospitals in...

MRSA Incidence. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I thank the Tánaiste for that information. The increase in the number of MRSA cases being reported is startling and we all recognise there is under-reporting. I take it we are only talking about hospitals whereas information in regard to nursing homes and the wider community is not included. Therefore, I presume the figures should be much higher. Does the Tánaiste accept the news that five...

MRSA Incidence. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The Tánaiste did not answer my question on the number of fatalities.