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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which all the facilities including state of the art operating theatres are fully operational at Naas General Hospital; her plans in this regard for the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18075/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the final phase of the Naas Hospital project plan to be completed; the full compliment of facilities including beds then expected to become available; if it is intended to review the bed compliment with a view to an increase in line with demographic trends; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18076/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for the augmentation of the public hospital bed complement in the short term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18078/07]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is intended to review the proposal to locate the new children's hospital adjacent to the Mater Hospital; if she has received or examined the compelling submissions from experts including consultants who are adamant that the previously available site for the children's hospital has greater advantages in terms of future...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the needs of cancer sufferers are best served by the retention of St. Luke's Hospital and the facilities thereat, having particular regard to the extent to which patients have confidence in and rely on the services at St. Luke's which has served Ireland well over the years; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the opposition to the proposed closure of St. Luke's Hospital; if she will review her proposals in this regard in view of the dependency of cancer sufferers on the facilities available at the hospital and the particular ethos that has developed there; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she or the Health Service Executive have studied the extent to which an expanded role in the provision of health services can be undertaken by the network of local health centres here as has been the case in other jurisdictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18083/07]

Order of Business (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: During the 29th Dáil the Taoiseach acknowledged that the Postal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill fell off the waggon, along with other legislation. Is it intended to return to that Bill with a view to addressing the serious issues of An Post and the postal service throughout the country? On yesterday's Order of Business, the Taoiseach, in reply to my question on the broadcasting authority of...

Order of Business (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Can the new Government not restore it to the list?

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: They are still over there.

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: As a parachute.

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: An overdose of muesli.

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: He is moving to a crescendo.

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: This legislation deals with barrier-free tolling and other matters. Surely the only contribution the Government could make to road construction and traffic management would be to move away from it altogether. To ascertain what the problems are, all one need do is go down to the M50 and sit there. One can park there all day, but it is not even free since one must pay to pass through. It is...

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: They could well be busy but I hope they do not exert themselves too much because running in front of or behind a squad car is a very strenuous exercise. I expect to see the Green Party's influence in this area soon. There is no use being shy or coy about it. They need to demonstrate their willingness to act. Deputy P. J. Sheehan mentioned the road infrastructure to Cork. It is an awful...

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: As the Ceann Comhairle knows, it is very difficult to describe the ills of society in one minute. I will do my best.

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: No better person than the Ceann Comhairle to assess that. The Minister is sincere and hard-working and the only advice I give him is to, for God's sake, get those who plan projects to plan for the future not the past. Will the Minister tell the Green Party to be careful when they are running down the road in front of the squad car? Road safety must be observed at all times at all levels of...

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Go on. Do go there.

Disabled Drivers. (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: There are clear inconsistencies in the regulations for disabled drivers and passengers tax concessions and the way they are applied. To qualify for a concession under these regulations, a person must have lost the use of one or both limbs. I do not understand this, having studied the regulations for some time. I have met people who have lost the use of an arm or leg and neither of them...