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Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: There will be a need three or four years after the next census because that is how long it takes to go through.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The guidelines have been issued to local authorities and it is for them to act on these issues.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: In the past week.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I do not have a date for the legislation.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It will be included in a Bill. As I understood it, the Minister was talking about better regulation and not about a particular proposal.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I do not have a date for it.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: There is no Bill on Aer Lingus at present.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It is not listed on the schedule.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Bill has been published and is with the select committee.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is looking in detail at yesterday's judgment. No Supplementary Estimate is proposed at this stage. On the second question, the Government has already given large sums of money to Cork, the European City of Culture. The Minister engaged with the committee last year and continues to do so this year.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I can go back over all the initiatives again if necessary but I will confine myself to answering the questions——

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: ——raised by the Deputy. The ten-point plan the HSE has drawn up in conjunction with the Department is under way. The HSE has now put its own action team into the key accident and emergency departments to try to assist by talking to management and staff with a view to bringing this proposal to fruition as quickly as possible. Some of these matters can happen quickly, others cannot. There...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I referred to the Health and Safety Authority in response to Deputy Kenny's question as to whether the authority was involved with the HSE in ensuring the executive's initiatives were in line with its requirements. The process is underway. I am told the HSA has acknowledged that hospitals are fully engaged in a process of addressing health and safety requirements in accident and emergency...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: As Deputy Rabbitte will appreciate, I have not followed the case in the last few weeks. I accept the Deputy's statement that no one has called on them and will request that the matter is examined. I recall the matter and have the note I used to inform the House earlier last month of what the family's needs were. I recall also why the issue arose and the children were taken from the family. I...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: As Deputy Rabbitte knows, the point I made concerned why the team acted as it did in the first place, not after the court case. According to my note, the provision of the multidisciplinary team service together with all the other service elements is dependent on the service of a case manager to co-ordinate and complete service delivery. An experienced case manager was employed in early 2005...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: However, as a result of verbal abuse received by telephone from Ms O'Hara, the case manager resigned. Following his resignation, Ms O'Hara visited his house and was asked to leave by the case manager's spouse. However, Ms O'Hara returned and this violation of privacy has had a further distressing impact on the staff member whose family and home have now been inappropriately involved in the...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: My note also goes into all the family's needs. The case has been in court but the point I made was that when the people acted in the first instance, before the court case——

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Yes but why does the Deputy say that the staff were vindictive when they were acting? I do not know if they were or not, but they were professional staff.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The court decided professional staff were doing what they thought they should do in the first case. Does that mean that these people should never take action in any case?

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2005)

Bertie Ahern: They formed a judgment and it went to court, although fortunately not every case ends up in court. They had put in place a range of services for family needs. The case was in court. As Deputy Rabbitte said, the Tánaiste has met the family and I know that the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, has also met them. Deputy Rabbitte asked me whether a...