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Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (9 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 328: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason his Department has blocked the appointment of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 to the historical inquiries unit being established by the PSNI which was advertised in the professional journals of the Garda Force. [17073/06]

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (9 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 339: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of probationer Gardaí who were allocated from the Garda college to each Garda station in Dublin City and County during 2005. [17324/06]

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (9 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 340: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of the 21 Gardaí at all ranks, who were transferred out of a station (details supplied) in Dublin 24 in 2005, who were appointed to a national unit; the number who were transferred to another Garda station following a request from the officer concerned; if he will confirm, that the 21 Gardaí transferred during...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (9 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí at all ranks in each station during 2005, in relation to all Garda stations in Dublin City and County, who requested a transfer out of that station, for the purposes of facilitating a transfer to another Garda station during the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17326/06]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 374: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the allocation of extra teachers under revised pupil/teacher allocation ratios can be used sensibly by schools in a roving capacity between classrooms, rather than rigidly allocating them to a specific class; her views on the desirability of such flexibility, particularly in schools which are constrained by the number of rooms...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (9 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 436: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the fund in 2006 available for once-off initiatives for post-primary schools refurbishment projects; the amount of same which is to be devoted to science laboratory projects; the criteria which is to be used for selecting successful applicants; and the status of an application by a school (details supplied). [17087/06]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (10 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has estimated the cost of increasing the high rate of nursing home subvention from €190.50 to €300, and the cost of raising the threshold for enhanced subvention from €680 to €800; her views on the likely cost and the impact on take up of nursing home subvention; and if she will make a statement on her...

Written Answers — Financial Services Ombudsman: Financial Services Ombudsman (10 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the remit of the financial service ombudsman is confined to business transactions of business that do not exceed €3 million in turnover; if he will consider that the ombudsman role should be extended to larger businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17502/06]

Written Answers — Public Service Contracts: Public Service Contracts (10 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised that the public procurement contracts and some of the requirements set at tendering stage are militating against innovative small companies, particularly in the software industry here from gaining opportunities to participate in Government contracts; his views on changes that would make it...

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: This may be an opportunity for the Minister to be a little more expansive. Can he amplify what is the legislative programme in his Department because it amazes me there is not a single reference to his Department anywhere in the legislative programme?

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Has he abandoned all legislation? Is he too busy——

Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: When Deputy O'Donoghue was Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform he put a number of important items of legislation into the Government programme, the corruption Bill that was to be produced, the one nationwide indictable crimes court Bill, the new legislation to enable the DPP to appeal against sentences in the District Court and a number of other Bills. What has happened to these...

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (11 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the claims made by CORI (details supplied) that in 1994 just 10.4 per cent of people receiving social welfare payments for illness or disability were at risk of poverty whereas in 2006 the figures for same is 49.4 per cent; his views on the claim; the reasons for this occurrence; the implications...

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (11 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to claims made by CORI (details supplied) that in 1994, 29.5 per cent of households headed by a person with an illness or a disability were at risk of poverty whereas in 2006 the figure for same is 54 per cent; his views on this claim; the implications for society; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his views on extending back the concession introduced some years ago whereby persons who dropped out of the insured workforce on order to undertake caring duties for children under 12 years or other persons in need of long-term care, would have those years of absence ignored for the purpose of averaging contributions, whereby...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (16 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress which has been made in each regional drug task force area over the past year; the concrete measures which have been enacted on the ground; the impact such measures have had; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18155/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has a protocol for dealing with cases where the assets of a person who is a ward of court become exhausted but the person has continuing need for nursing home care. [18092/06]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (16 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the planned capital funding of €4.4 million for a day hospital facility in Beaumont Hospital remains committed to this project; the facilities which will be provided and if she will ensure that this commitment to older people is not diluted to accommodate other projects as has been recently suggested (details...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (16 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to justify her claim that 60 per cent of the health budget goes on wages and salaries within the health service; the breakdown of the difference in terms of salary and wages costs between administrative staff and clinical staff within the health service in that context; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (16 May 2006)

Richard Bruton: Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the issue of the Tribal Secta Report on accident and emergency units in six hospitals to a national newspaper under a Freedom of Information request she will arrange to lay these reports in the Houses of the Oireachtas library in order that Members can learn from their important findings. [18351/06]