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Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (5 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will publish the Road Safety Authority's recommendations to strengthen the HGV roadworthiness testing regime which he has accepted; when he will publish the requisite legislation to implement these regulations; the number of inspections that were carried out on HGVs in 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number of inspectors employed to monitor...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (5 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 528: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the fees paid by her Department per year over the past five years to psychologists and other expert witnesses in legal proceedings involving children with special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3325/08]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (5 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 630: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position following the Dillon versus the Director of Public Prosecutions ruling on begging; the impact this will have on the ability of the Gardaí to deal with the problem; the action being taken to tackle the practice among some parents using their children for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The individual concerned left of his own initiative. There should be a report on his appointment.

Overseas Development Aid. (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on such requests as he has had for aid and assistance following on from the recent natural disaster in Indonesia. [3694/08]

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Not during Lent.

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I am sharing time with Deputy Ó Caoláin. The Finance Bill is the most important Bill that is debated in this Chamber. It is about how the Government decides to spend taxpayers' money and it affects everybody. There are very few Bills about which one can say that. I listened to the Government Deputies and while I agree with some of what they said, I would probably place a different...

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I am not certain that anybody knows. Maybe the problem with this Government is that certain Ministers believe that they actually do know everything. Maybe the Minister, Deputy Power, is right and he does have all the answers. He is a unique individual if he has them all, but if he believes that, I wish him the best of luck.

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Exactly. While many of those people admire the economy, the same people are taken aback at what we have done with the boom and the fact that we still have an education system that is less than half way up the OECD table. I have heard that if someone were to land from Mars and walk into one of our overcrowded school prefabs or trolley-ridden accident and emergency departments, he or she...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank my colleague, Deputy Mary Upton, for sharing time. Like Deputy Upton I do not believe five minutes is enough on the issue of health. I will speak tonight on the whole area of hospital acquired infections. I would like to speak, as well, on childhood diabetes, which I have raised numerous times in this House, and the lack of treatment facilities and care in Cork despite all the...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: There would have been no need for it.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: There would have been no need for a young woman to have been on the radio.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Is it true that all old age pensioners will be issued with swipe cards by the end of this year instead of the normal pension books? If so, how will it affect people in areas that do not have automated post offices, which is virtually the whole of rural Ireland? I see from the Finance Bill that funding for house alarms, which used to come from the Department of Social and Family Affairs, has...

Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: An extensive report on this very issue was published in 2001, which has never been acted upon.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Perhaps it is in Deputy Finian McGrath's agreement. The Minister should look that up.

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (7 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors currently employed by the Labour Inspectorate of his Department; the number of labour inspectors currently available for assignment on normal duties; the number of labour inspectors currently in training following recruitment; the status of the recruitment campaign to increase the Labour...

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (7 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the Labour Inspectorate during 2007; the way this compares with those in 2006; the reason for the significant decline in the number of inspections carried out in the first nine months of 2007 as compared to the first nine months of 2006; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is an embargo on recruitment of home helps in the Health Service Executive south area; the impact such a move would have on the increasing demand for home help services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4312/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to replace State pension books with swipe-cards; the way this will impact on people living in areas that do not have banks or automated post offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4313/08]

Special Educational Needs: Motion (12 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I know the Minister does not write her speeches. She could not do so because she is too busy. The speeches are written by civil servants but I found it very frustrating and annoying listening to that speech. I can only imagine what it would be like if I had a child who was in need of services because of a disability. How frustrating it would be to continually listen to the same thing...