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Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the polluter pays problem faced by the residents of Achill Sound in relation to the long awaited sewerage scheme will be resolved; if the local contribution will be revised; when this scheme will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31081/06]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 174: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether local authorities have failed to implement the correct planning guidelines; his further views on whether planning permission for people sustaining rural areas should be introduced on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31080/06]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 314: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will recommend that Mayo County Council should take example from Galway County Council and adopt the relaxation of stringent planning rules to those in Clár areas; his views on whether this is necessary in the future of these areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31109/06]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 321: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department will revise the situation in County Mayo where the planning guidelines are failing as certain aspects are being enforced and others ignored by the planners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31115/06]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 330: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the planning guidelines in County Mayo should be amended in line with new agreed guidelines in County Galway; his further views on whether increased flexibility in relation to planning is necessary in Clár areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31125/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who was told by the Health Service Executive West orthodontic section when they were in sixth class that they did not require orthodontic treatment but now, having had a routine appointment with a dentist they have been told that they need immediate treatment; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 291: To ask the Minister for Transport the criteria which is used when classifying a national primary and a national secondary road; the regularity of the review of this decision; the process which is necessary to reclassify the status of these roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31129/06]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 322: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Irish Rural Dwellers Association should be a nominating body to An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31116/06]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (4 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 323: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether it is incorrect that membership of An Taisce is secret; his further views on whether there should be transparency in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31117/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (5 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm that the report carried out at the request of the Health and Safety authority into whether the authority had the remit to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) was in accordance with the principles of natural justice; if it will be made available to the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the reason that on World Mental Health Day there is only one consultant child psychiatrist covering the entire county of Mayo — the third largest county in the country — with children being obliged to wait for more than two years for an appointment, although immediate treatment is...

Green Paper on Energy: Statements. (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: All I have to state is that as far as I can see, we do not have an energy policy. Similar to health, there is no policy and there are vested interests throughout. Local people are robbed and abused by forces of the State. This House is silent on the matter and, shamefully, other Mayo Deputies are also silent. I was in County Mayo in recent days. The local community is under attack from...

Green Paper on Energy: Statements. (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Deputy O'Malley's party gave away the——

Crime Prevention: Motion. (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Hundreds of gardaí are in Rossport, County Mayo, trying to put through an ill-fated project, yet millions of euro worth of drugs are coming into private aerodromes, as has been pointed out. We have had a problem with alcohol for many generations, but in recent years other drugs have compounded and accelerated the situation. Heroin has devastated disadvantaged communities in Dublin....

Cancer Screening Programme. (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise the delay of BreastCheck for the women of Mayo, a matter I raised on my first occasion speaking in Dáil Éireann. It is scandalous and unforgivable that hundreds of women have died and at least 300 more will die before BreastCheck is available to women in Mayo. The former Minister, Deputy Martin, stated that BreastCheck would be available...

Cancer Screening Programme. (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Of course it is not. We will have to wait another nine or ten years.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will extend free travel to older Irish pensioners living in the UK, in view of the fact that they are already in receipt of an Irish pension and receive the President's 100th birthday cheque. [31533/06]

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

Jerry Cowley: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on introducing a refuse waiver scheme as part of the household benefits package as the payment of refuse collections is something which is out of reach for most pensioners here; his further views on whether running this through the household benefits packages would simplify things for his Department and for the people...

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 206: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the live register figures for each of the areas of Ballinrobe, Claremorris, Ballyhaunis, Castlebar, Westport and Ballina, County Mayo for the years 1996, 2001, 2005 and for the first six months of 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31711/06]

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (10 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 305: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the work of the public health nurse has increased but the staffing levels have not; if her further attention has been drawn to the fact that their daily work consists of clinical work, dealing with home care for cancer patients, postnatal mothers and babies, terminally ill patients,...