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Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (30 Nov 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the likelihood of increased funding for arts organisations in Budget 2007; if the Arts Council have sought a specific amount for 2007; the likelihood of this being achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40825/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (30 Nov 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 169: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he received correspondence from two members of Wicklow County Council dated 12 November 2006 relating to the appointment of a public relations consultant; the response he is making to the concerns raised in this correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40937/06]

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a new report from the board of Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, which called for a review of the decision to locate the new national children's hospital, following reservations from Tallaght Hospital: if she will provide the full list of objections from these sources and address each; her further views on...

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister for Health and Children accept that the goodwill present at the start of the process has evaporated and that the Government decision to locate the paediatric hospital on the Mater site has now effectively been rubbished by Crumlin Hospital's report, which clearly states that it is too small? Perhaps the Minister might deal with those issues, both of which featured in my...

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Day beds.

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Chicago.

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: I can laugh, since I hope the traffic moves in Chicago; it certainly does not move in Dublin.

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: They have seen it in America, so it must work.

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: The McKinsey report could have been decided in a way that deals with the serious criticisms raised by those in Crumlin.

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: One might wonder why Progressive Democrats Ministers in the Department of Health and Children are quick to make allegations and innuendoes about those who disagree with them.

Hospitals Building Programme. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: The Minister of State who is seated beside the Minister made a serious allegation, which he was unable to substantiate, on national television last night. The Minister is correct in her observation that there was goodwill towards the McKinsey report among the paediatric community. Does she accept that Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin has no vested interest in this matter?...

Care of the Elderly. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the lack of provision made for specialist medicine for older people in the buildings of three major Dublin hospitals; her further views on claims that departments of geriatric medicine are being marginalised and that, according to the Kennedy report, from the 1980s older people should hold a central place in general...

Care of the Elderly. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: On the previous question, will the Minister provide me with the same information that she will provide to Deputy Twomey?

Care of the Elderly. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister of State agree that Professor Des O'Neill has done a considerable service in his report on Leas Cross nursing home? It was a thoughtful and hard-hitting report. Has the Government accepted its recommendations? Does the Minister of State agree with Professor O'Neill's criticisms of the over-reliance on the private nursing home solution in care for the elderly? How will...

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister of State accept that what he is experiencing is the direct result of misguided policy? Professor O'Neill made it clear that over-reliance on the private sector had made the task of protecting residents more difficult because it was harder to maintain quality in private nursing homes than in community nursing homes. Those were his words. Is the Minister of State aware of...

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: In the right place.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: He has done neither.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: What is the Taoiseach talking about?

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: There are cardiac patients who cannot get an operation because there are no beds.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: There are patients waiting for open heart surgery who cannot get an operation——