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Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (23 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports (details supplied) that Beaumont hospital has less than 15% of the beds it needs for kidney and pancreatic transplant patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9487/05]

Written Answers — Community Nursing Units: Community Nursing Units (23 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will continue with plans to provide beds in CNUs through public private partnership as announced in July 2002; the reason the southern and eastern regions were chosen for the plan; her estimated costs of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9556/05]

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: I regret the Taoiseach is not present on the break up of the House for a further two weeks, as a number of serious issues need to be addressed. Is the Bill recently passed capable of dealing with the regulation of the spending of public money, given that it has come to light that a farm four miles——

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, who described the Abbotstown proposal as a Ceaucescu-like development, has spent €30 million of the taxpayer's money on a 150-acre farm to build a prison.

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: Another farm comprising 243 acres, four miles away, was sold yesterday for just over €6 million.

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: This is another example of profligate spending from the public purse. Will the new development be the McDowell monument to political spending?

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: I wish to raise a second issue, which is the Mícheál Martin special, the Dunne inquiry. I listened to an articulate argument on a national radio programme about this earlier. The previous Minister for Health and Children stated in writing that if the Dunne inquiry failed to bring a satisfactory conclusion to this matter, which is of serious concern to a large number of people, there would...

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: On a humanitarian issue, the Minister can suddenly reverse an independent decision. Did he read the report on the order that was signed in the first instance?

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: It does.

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: It is like a see-saw.

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: It is a pity that he did not make that decision before he signed the initial deportation order.

Constitutional Referenda. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he intends holding a constitutional referendum in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4636/05]

Constitutional Referenda. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Is the Taoiseach aware that a recent Eurobarometer research indicated — I do not know whether we can believe this — that 45% of Irish people had never heard of the existence of the EU constitution, never mind be aware of its content? If there is any relevance or truth in that report, it is obviously very serious. I ask the Taoiseach to outline the steps the Government intends to take on...

Constitutional Referenda. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Has the Government discussed the question of discrimination against women in the home? The Irish Human Rights Commission called for a referendum on the deletion of Article 41.2 of the Constitution. The All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution recommended the deletion of the article and its replacement with a different form of wording to the effect that the State would recognise that...

Constitutional Referenda. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Deputy Callely, announced a €16 billion programme recently without the Minister knowing of it.

Leaders' Questions. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Today Irish nurses commenced their latest campaign to highlight the disgraceful scenes at accident and emergency departments around the country. At the Mater Hospital, Cork University Hospital and Roscommon General Hospital nurses were forced on to the streets to protest during their lunch break about the continuously bad situation in accident and emergency units. Their demands are not...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach has not changed. He referred to the figure of 3,300 people. This is very much less than it was seven years ago. The position is that the Government is unable to deal now with a lesser number than there was seven years ago. The Department closed contracted beds 18 months ago and is now opening up contracted beds as if this was a brand new initiative. In those years the health...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: It is an admission of failure.

Death of His Holiness Pope John Paul II: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: I support the motion proposed by the Taoiseach. World leaders gathered in Rome last Friday for the burial of the Pope and to pay tribute to a remarkable man who was a poet, actor, mystic, jet-setter, philosopher, anti-war campaigner, human rights activist and evangelist. He meant more to humanity than any other individual in the history of mankind. His university friends once pinned a note on...

Written Answers — Public Private Partnerships: Public Private Partnerships (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 384: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the public private informal advisory group has met from 2002 to date; the work programme and recommendations made by the group; the number of times the group has met officials from his Department and with the members of the inter-departmental group on PPPs from 2002 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11147/05]