Results 1,581-1,600 of 6,055 for speaker:Frank Feighan
- Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)
Frank Feighan: Approximately a year ago, I raised the unacceptable length of the waiting list in the Boyle area, where people were having to wait for up to 19 weeks to have their cases dealt with. Has that problem been alleviated in the past few months?
- Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)
Frank Feighan: It has improved.
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 May 2010)
Frank Feighan: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a bed will be made available in respect of a person (details supplied). [21319/10]
- Forestry Sector (26 May 2010)
Frank Feighan: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food if he will comment on the management of forestry thinning in the private forest sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22045/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2010)
Frank Feighan: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason supplementary welfare allowance has been discontinued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [22288/10]
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (27 May 2010)
Frank Feighan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the continued embargo on recruitment in the HSE which is putting peoples lives at risk and which is especially impacting on the care of our elderly, particularly in the Plunkett Home in Boyle, County Roscommon, where the Government still has not lived up its commitment to employ a...
- Written Answers — Rehabilitation Services: Rehabilitation Services (27 May 2010)
Frank Feighan: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure a person (details supplied) who requires treatment in the National Rehabilitation Centre in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, will be admitted for treatment. [22522/10]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (27 May 2010)
Frank Feighan: Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review of school transport boundaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22614/10]
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: I welcome Deputy Varadkar's Bill. It is timely, as we have been at the end of an Irish version of one of the greatest pyramid schemes seen in any country. I come from a business background and have employed people over the years. We watched as costs rose, including rates, excise duties and the minimum wage. Most businesses were lured into a false sense of security to the effect that they...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (1 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: Question 521: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the proposals under consideration to raise school transport from â¬300 to â¬500; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23311/10]
- Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: I seek leave under Standing Order 32 to move the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the continued embargo on employment and recruitment in the HSE which is putting people's lives at risk. This situation pertains in my area in the Plunkett Home, Boyle, where elderly people have been denied day care services for more than two months because this unit...
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: What about Quinn Insurance?
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: Call an election.
- School Transport (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: Question 4: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on the possible increase in school transport costs to families and extending this to primary school children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23929/10]
- School Transport (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. However, it does not set out or allay the fears of thousands of hard-pressed parents. We are discussing the 2010 to 2011 school year but we really want to know about the following academic year. Will the Minister of State reject any proposals by the Department of Finance to increase the fee from â¬300 to â¬500? Only 125,000 people are availing...
- School Transport (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: The Minister of State is a reasonable man. Will he fight the corner of the hard-pressed parents and rural students who will not be able to afford this extra increase if he does not resist it? Will he reject the proposals of the McCarthy report to increase the charges from â¬300 to â¬500?
- School Transport (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: I wonder what are the views of the Green Party. It has advocated public transport and getting cars off the road.
- School Transport (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: The Tánaiste might raise it at Cabinet level.
- Health Service Staff (3 Jun 2010)
Frank Feighan: Over two months ago, the day care services for elderly people in the Boyle area were curtailed. These services, for which they each paid â¬4, transformed their lives by allowing them to meet friends, eat dinner, play bingo, get their hair done and receive physiotherapy, as well as giving their families some respite. With one clinical nurse manager on sick leave, the embargo on HSE...