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- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Two years later.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: It is two years since A Vision for Change was published. In those two years, the Government and the Minister regularly paraded the commitment to, and implementation of, A Vision for Change. We have now been informed the plan was only sanctioned on 14 February of this year. How can we believe anything the Minister of State says if that is the case? In early December, the Minister expressly...
- Mental Health Facilities. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: The Minister of State has experience as a physician. Does he not agree with the advice that was offered by a number of experts â including some from Australia and New Zealand â in recent times in respect of this matter to the effect that locating a therapeutic hospital beside a custodial establishment is the wrong way to proceed? The experts to whom I refer also referred to the...
- Mental Health Facilities. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: That is a completely different situation. We are discussing a forensic hospital.
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Bearing in mind that an inadequate â¬44.3 million is allocated to the Road Safety Authority and 338 people died in road accidents last year, how can the Minister justify the allocation of just â¬3.5 million to the National Office for Suicide Prevention when 500 people die by suicide? How can she justify not increasing the level of funding this year?
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: "Yes" is the answer.
- Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and congratulate Deputy Charles Flanagan on tabling it. Anti-social behaviour must be tackled as a matter of urgency. It is destroying many communities and this is very evident in many towns and villages. I am regularly approached about it in my constituency. People in Newcastle West almost feel under siege at certain times of the weekend....
- Job Creation. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: So has the Deputy.
- Schools Building Projects. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. There is an urgent need for a new national school in Kilfinane. Various promises were made since 2001 and there is deep concern that the school was not included in the most recent announcement on schools building projects. The Department of Education and Science commissioned a feasibility study for the school in 1999 which...
- Schools Building Projects. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: When?
- Schools Building Projects. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: I know that.
- Schools Building Projects. (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Will it be announced at Easter? It was promised last year.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Question 267: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a swipe card will be introduced for old age contributory and non-contributory pensions in 2008; and the date of same. [9525/08]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (6 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason home caring spouse credit was not given as a tax credit to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9818/08]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (6 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick is not getting the home caring credit on their husbands tax free allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9819/08]
- Written Answers — Suicide Prevention: Suicide Prevention (6 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review her decision to freeze in Budget 2008 the implementation of the recommendations of Reach Out, the national strategy for action on suicide prevention. [9794/08]
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for change in Government policy leading to the widespread asset stripping of the Victorian asylums and lands without corresponding provision and development of modern and high quality psychiatric facilities envisaged in a A Vision for Change. [9795/08]
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will speed up the processing of a holiday visa application on behalf of a person (detail supplied). [9820/08]
- Capitation Grants: Motion (11 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Hear, hear.
- Capitation Grants: Motion (11 Mar 2008)
Dan Neville: Hear, hear.