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Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (25 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 676: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if documents were forged in any part of the EU and then knowingly used in the Republic of Ireland for financial gain; if that would be a criminal act; and the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [14749/06]

Written Answers — Garda Reserve: Garda Reserve (25 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 691: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and his views on the idea of using the new Garda reserve force on this type of child safety issue. [14907/06]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (25 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 806: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will meet with the Irish Deaf Society; and if the maximum support on the Irish sign language issue will be given. [14369/06]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (25 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 818: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if adequate resources will be provided for all children with disabilities in second level education; and if she will make this a priority for 2006. [14586/06]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (25 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 857: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the situation regarding the withdrawal of staff at a school (details supplied) in County Galway will be reviewed; and if she will support them in their request to retain 13 class teachers as a matter of urgency. [14905/06]

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (25 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 987: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a statutory body to co-ordinate, manage, develop and protect the waters and lands surrounding Dublin Bay and to grant greater provision and protection of public amenities will be set up; if a master plan on building height and a coastal zone plan will be drawn up; and if he will work with the Minister for...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: She has not delivered.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Hear, hear.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on this important debate on the crisis in the accident and emergency departments of our hospitals. After nine years in power, the Government, in spite of its having had substantial resources and finances at its disposal, has done nothing about the nightmare of patients on trolleys in our hospitals. To me, it is a crime, scandal and disgrace. I find...

Written Answers — Swimming Pool Projects: Swimming Pool Projects (26 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will intervene in the proposed closure of St. Paul's Swimming Pool, Raheny; and if he will outline new swimming facilities on the north side of Dublin in 2006. [15560/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the urgent need to assist St. Paul's College, Raheny in its request for more resources and finance to deal with: the high insurance costs; the capitation grants and its inadequate contribution to school finance; the inadequate special needs services, such as delays in having children...

Asylum Applications. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Does the Minister establish the welfare of each child and how he or she might be affected by deportation, separation from a parent or family and the service and protection afforded to him or her by the State? Does the Minister examine the relative safety of each child's destination country, the economic and political conditions and whether it is affected by armed conflict? Does he support the...

Asylum Applications. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: We could have fitted them into Tolka Park.

Asylum Applications. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: He should use reflective language.

Garda Divisional Boundaries. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: The Minister would never do that.

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: This is an important motion on our natural resources and highlights the urgent need for all our citizens to benefit from them in a fair and just manner. I commend the Independent Members on uniting in tabling this commonsense motion in the taxpayers' interests. We have agreed the fundamental principle that oil and gas reserves in the control of State must belong to the people.

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: They must be recovered and used in a way that benefits the majority of the population rather than powerful corporate interests. We need a Chavez approach, not a Ray Burke one. We need openness, accountability and a fair and sensitive approach to our natural resources. The conservative forces of the new right in society that want simply to hand over our oil and gas reserves to private...

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: We live in the real world.

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: We do not control them. The Minister is giving them away.

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to persons (details supplied) regarding the €200 shortfall in relation to nursing home care; and if the family will be given the maximum support on this matter. [16007/06]