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Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: The Tánaiste is making up the facts as she goes along.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: I compliment Deputy Michael Creed for putting forward this important motion. Earlier this year the Oireachtas committee on agriculture discussed this motion and members from all sides of the House agreed that an extension of the scheme was necessary and should be granted. It is unfair of the Government to put forward an amendment to the motion; it is equally unfair of the Government...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: The Deputy should address the motion.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: The Deputy is out of touch.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: They will not be contacting the Deputy after last Tuesday's budget.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: Of course we can.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: The Deputy should address the motion.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: On a point of order, I ask the Chair to insist that Deputy Treacy addresses the motion before the House——

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: ——rather than going away from it.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: We want him to address the motion.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: The Chair should ask the Deputy to address the motion.

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the grandfather clause has been eliminated from the legislation ratifying the Hague Convention; if she will re-consider eliminating it; if bilateral agreements are in the process of being drawn up as soon as possible to deal with couples wanting to adopt from countries not ratifying the convention; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Hospital Hygiene Standards: Hospital Hygiene Standards (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the compliance rates with hand-hygiene policy regarding MRSA in hospitals here which her Department informed this Deputy is estimated at 60% to 70%; the policy being undertaken in her Department specifically, and in the Heath Service Executive to improve this; and her views on same in the context of two infants becoming...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she stated in a reply to Parliamentary Question No. 316 on 30 September 2008 that the newborn screening programme for cystic fibrosis was going ahead in 2008 in view of the fact that the relevant reply from the Health Service Executive says that the HSE are looking for funding for this programme for 2009; if her attention...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: The Ceann Comhairle has to give into that.

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: It is a point of order.

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: The Government made it difficult.

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: Whose fault was that?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: Why did the Government not check the budget? The Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, could have done it.

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Oct 2008)

Tom Hayes: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a site available to a centre (details supplied) in County Tipperary for the provision of a residential facility for persons with special needs; and if a site is available, when work will commence on same. [36316/08]