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Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will immediately reverse the cutbacks by his Department of FÁS community employment schemes and remove the lifetime capping on participants of these schemes. [12284/05]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to approve the location of an ambulance in the town of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12273/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the approval, funding and opening of the completed units on the grounds of Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel and the proposed general practitioners unit at the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12274/05]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the approval, funding and opening of the acute medical unit at the South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel. [12275/05]

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and the steps he intends to take to address the very serious unemployment levels in the town of Carrick-on-Suir; the steps which have been taken by the industrial promotion agencies to bring industry to the town, including the number of site visits arranged by those agencies, by prospective...

Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: During the debate on the Health Act 2004, the Tánaiste assured the House that we would not be presented with another white elephant like the National Roads Authority and that we would receive answers to questions from her and her Department. When will the Tánaiste reply to health questions which other Members and I have tabled? When will she approve the acute medical unit for South...

Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: The matter has been with her Department for 12 months. When will the High Court agreement to provide general hospital services in south Tipperary be implemented?

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to share time with Deputies Gogarty and Crowe. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. As the Minister said, the background to this legislation and to the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000 and the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 is the reality of serious child abuse having taken place in homes and institutions funded by the State and, in effect,...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (26 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timescale and the way in which she proposes to respond to the disturbing facts uncovered in the survey recently carried out by the Irish National Teachers Organisation which showed that there are 55 primary classes in south Tipperary of 30 or more and that 25% of all south Tipperary primary pupils are in classes of more than 30;...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (27 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need to approve the location of a public radiotherapy unit at Waterford Regional Hospital to serve the interests of the south-east region given the higher than average rates of cancer, to ensure that equal access to radiotherapy services exists and to end cancer care apartheid.

Class Sizes: Motion (Resumed). (27 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: In June 2002, the programme for Government read as follows: Over the next five years, we will progressively introduce maximum class guidelines which will ensure that average size of classes for children under nine will be below the international best practice guideline of one in 20. Three years later, the Government has failed to even take a small step forward in that direction....

Written Answers — Medical Records: Medical Records (4 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make urgent inquiries regarding the non-availability of medical records for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14304/05]

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (4 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14305/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (5 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the announcement by Waterford Wedgewood of the loss of 495 jobs, including the closure of its Dungarvan plant; the loss of 110 jobs in Waterford City and the urgent need for the industrial development agencies to immediately secure replacement jobs for the areas affected including...

Suicide Levels: Motion (Resumed). (5 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: I thank the many voluntary organisation involved in this area, including GROW, AWARE, Schizophrenia Ireland, Mental Health Ireland and the Samaritans, all of which are involved in raising public awareness, addressing local needs and dealing with individuals and families who have been traumatised and devastated by suicide in their family circle or community. I have personal experience of...

Hospital Services. (11 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to raise the urgent need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and the Health Service Executive to implement the High Court agreement for the provision of general hospital services in south Tipperary, including the transfer of general surgical services to South Tipperary General Hospital at Clonmel, the approval and opening of a general practitioner...

Hospital Services. (11 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: I hope the Minister of State has something to say.

Hospital Services. (11 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: That is the same paragraph as in the Minister of State's last reply. I hope that he can do better than that.

Hospital Services. (11 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Six times in the past two months.

Hospital Services. (11 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: If the Minister of State wishes, he can cut it short, since I have heard it all before.