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Order of Business. (1 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: The European working time directive is due to be implemented in the next couple of weeks. Hospitals throughout the country are distraught as to how it will be implemented——

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: ——and its impact on services. Is it still the Government's intention to introduce the directive and when will the appropriate Statutory Instrument be published if it is the intention to continue with it?

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (1 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction the purchase of a school building site for Monkstown Educate Together school. [16564/04]

Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (1 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application by a school (details supplied); and if funding can be expedited to meet the vastly expanded demand for school places in the area. [16629/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of lung transplants anticipated at the new Mater Hospital unit in 2004; and the number anticipated per annum when the unit is operating at a capacity which is consistent with the maximum anticipated availability of transplant organs. [16613/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 285: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of lung transplants which took place at Newcastle as part of the Irish-Newcastle contract arrangements in each of the years from 1999 until 2003. [16614/04]

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome the publication of the Bill and wish it had come sooner. In the months since the court case in January I have become increasingly anxious as traffic conditions have deteriorated and the prospect of two cul-de-sac motorways appeared a distinct possibility. I realise there is more to the legislation than the Carrickmines issue. I realise also that if one does not live in the area...

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Exactly. This Bill gives An Bord Pleanála the power to sanction variations to approved works and where it does not so sanction, a decision can be made on the need for a new environmental impact statement rather than waiting for the courts to adjudicate on the matter. Let me make it absolutely clear that Fine Gael insists that our national monuments be preserved. We have no future if we do...

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: The county council, notwithstanding the fact that it did not accept that the discovery at Carrickmines was a national monument, applied for permission to interfere with it, because that was the only way the stalemate could be broken. The Minister gave his consent but that was appealed to the courts and it was subsequently lost on a technicality — nothing to do with the merits of the case. A...

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: One becomes slightly suspicious when that happens. I would not say that the archaeological heritage is less precious than other heritage but they manage to build roads without this happening. My concern is that the Minister will make no decisions, because the legislation states that he may at his discretion make a direction as to how to proceed. The timeframe is too open-ended. The Minister...

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Fine Gael does not believe there must be tension between building our infrastructure and preserving our heritage. In this, as in most things, a sense of balance and common sense is the way forward and is essential. What is precious, unique and irreplaceable as a national monument must be preserved and alternative routes found for our roads. If what is unearthed can be examined, mapped,...

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if consideration will be given to the lottery application by the Charleville Sheltered Housing Services for essential equipment for their new central care unit. [18171/04]

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the submission from the Dublin Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign on the mid-term review of the national drugs strategy that the structures that were put in place to deliver a community-led, partnership approach have been undermined and that, as a result, the role of local communities have been diminished....

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the next rural development forum will take place; the agenda for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22683/04]

Written Answers — National Cancer Strategy: National Cancer Strategy (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a decision has been made on the locations of the planned two centre Dublin based radiotherapy service. [23258/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 366: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if information on consultants' waiting lists for each consultant in each specialty is made available to general practitioners on a countrywide basis; and, if so, the frequency with which such information is updated. [23259/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 367: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if information is available or being collected on numbers awaiting initial consultant appointments following general practitioner referral or on the length of such waiting times. [23260/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 368: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if information on the numbers awaiting procedures, either treatments or investigations other than surgical procedures, is available or being collected by the national treatment purchase fund; if so, if such figures will be made available in order that a meaningful comparison can be made with figures published in May 2004 which referred...

Written Answers — Speed Limits: Speed Limits (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 395: To ask the Minister for Transport if the metrification process of speed limit signs will commence on 1 January 2005; if he will outline the new speed limits which will apply and the circumstances in which a lower than 30 mph maximum speed limit can be enforced. [23268/04]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her intentions in respect of the future use of the lands on which the Central Mental Hospital is located in Dundrum. [24143/04]