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Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (9 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 489: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will elaborate on his replies to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 945 and 991 of 25 April 2006, and put an exact date on when discussions between his Department and the IFFPG will be resolved as the situation is causing an enormous amount of upset in the Mayo area; his views on whether it needs to be...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: If the Taoiseach was serious about trying to ensure balanced regional development——

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: It is disgraceful.

Energy Sector: Motion (Resumed). (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I am sharing time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Finian McGrath, Connolly, Breen, Eamon Ryan, Sargent and Ferris, if the House is agreeable.

Energy Sector: Motion (Resumed). (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The Fine Gael motion is timely and I congratulate its Deputies for bringing it forward. It dovetails nicely with the motion brought forward by Independent Deputies last week, which forced the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, to have a change of heart as regards the better exploitation of our natural resources by the people. The finite nature of carbon resources has been well flagged. This makes...

Energy Sector: Motion (Resumed). (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The Government has lacked vision in terms of involving communities. One needs only look at the evidence provided by group water schemes to show how keen people are to be involved at community level. Communities set these up and have been involved in running them on a voluntary basis with very little help from Government, particularly in the past. Those communities are willing to get involved...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a consultant orthopaedic has the only and final say in relation to orthodontic decisions in the Health Service Executive western area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17505/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the crisis situation which exists within the orthodontic system in the Health Service Executive western area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17506/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 4: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, referred in second, fourth and sixth class for orthodontic treatment, and also referred by the principal dentist in County Mayo for orthodontic treatment is now being told the treatment is not necessary; the way in which the consultant orthodontist reached this...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 5: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to review the orthodontic system here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17508/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 6: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason there is no basis for a second opinion with the orthodontic system here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17509/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 7: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason there is no complaint procedure within the orthodontic system here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17510/06]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 20: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide locum cover to general practitioners working on Ireland's off-shore islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17570/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (10 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the pension system for women (details supplied) should change, taking into account the fact that if both persons were unemployed all their lives their joint non-contributory would be in the same monitory region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17574/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (11 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the failure of the State to provide clean water to the people of Ballycroy, County Mayo, where many dependent and ill older people live; and the urgent need for potable water to be supplied in tankers pending the switching on of the new group water scheme on 7 November 2006.

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Last February, when the Minister took the Order of Business, I raised the issue of the HSE preventing a man from supplying water on a voluntary basis to the citizens of Ballycroy, whose water has been contaminated in recent years.

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: A man has had a colostomy. He has to be——

Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (11 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this important Bill. It is difficult to know where to start when speaking about an issue of such fundamental importance to everyone concerned. As we are all getting older, it is inevitable, unless something happens to us in the meantime, that we will all need some support in our old age. I use the term "support" because nursing care is a subset of...

Social Welfare Benefits. (11 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will extend free travel to older Irish emigrants, at the very least to Irish pensioners living in the UK, when they return here on their holidays in view of the fact that a common travel area has always existed between Ireland and the UK which predates the formation of the EU, thus meaning no discrimination against other EU...

Social Welfare Benefits. (11 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I thank the Minister for his reply. I hoped he would have news on a breakthrough in the North-South free travel issue. However, he is also anxious to do something regarding the east-west dimension. The common travel area between Ireland and the UK predated the EU but his legal advice is that providing free travel between both countries would discriminate against citizens of other EU states...