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Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all staff employed by private ambulance services are vetted through the Garda clearance system as per the public service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42750/06]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a company (details supplied) receive moneys from the Health Service Executive for ambulance services; if the HSE or Statutory Ambulance Service have the authority to inspect, assess and set standards of ambulance services offered by private ambulance companies; if the service has been inspected or spot checked by the State...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 291: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if any person or persons made a complaint to the Health Service Executive, Department of Health and Children or the State Ambulance Authorities regarding the conduct of staff or operation of a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42752/06]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all ambulance staff in private ambulance companies, including a company (details supplied) qualified to the expected statutory standard as set down by pre-hospital emergency care council to Irish protocol; the way this is enforced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42753/06]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 293: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if non-national staff employed by a company (details supplied) are qualified to Irish standards and are fully conversant in the English language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42754/06]

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 519: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take to combat the destruction to the natural environment taking place in County Wicklow by the use of quad bikes; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that quad bikes are used in special areas of conservation; his views on reports of a new EU directive making it a criminal offence...

Public Transport: Motion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: I wish to share my time with Deputies Upton and Shortall. I welcome the fact that Deputy Shortall brought forward this motion. Policy on transport is a little like that on health, in respect of which people have reached a stage of hopelessness and a feeling that as nothing can be done, nothing will be done.

Public Transport: Motion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: The Minister has had his say and should let me have mine.

Public Transport: Motion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: It is regrettable that the Minister is simply reiterating points made in the past, when the idea behind the motion is to bring forward immediate realistic measures that could prove to be effective in their simplicity — 500 more buses, a flat €1 fare, the opening up of QBCs and providing park and ride facilities. It is regrettable that he does not seem to be listening. It is important to...

Public Transport: Motion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Minister, you can act as Pontius Pilate all you like——

Public Transport: Motion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: ——but that is part of the problem.

Public Transport: Motion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: It will take a long time, beyond the next general election, and, I hope, a change of Government for those in Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats to finally figure out that it is a matter, not just of spending money and publishing major reports with many diagrams of Luas lines but of better management to ensure simple measures are taken to make a difference. That is the virtue of the...

Written Answers — Drugs Seizures: Drugs Seizures (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to recent comments from a senior member of the Garda Síochána that heroin is so readily available even in rural areas that two of the biggest seizures to date of the drug in recent months have had no impact on its availability or price on the street; his views on whether Ireland is...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the local authority areas and Gaeltachta where unified structures have not been fully agreed in regard to local and community development agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42853/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Communications: Departmental Communications (13 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason her Department's website press area is not regularly updated on all topics; her views on the lack of press statements on all areas of interest on daily health topics; her further views on the fact that not one press statement was released from 12 September to 6 October 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Entitlements: Social Welfare Entitlements (14 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on a national advertising campaign to promote greater awareness of social welfare entitlements, similar to the campaign being run by the Revenue Commissioners to promote greater awareness of tax allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43143/06]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (14 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of contract beds provided in private nursing homes in each of the eight Health Service Executive areas in 2004, 2005 and 2006; and the number planned for 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43355/06]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (14 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of publicly owned community nursing beds provided in each of the eight Health Service Executive areas in 2004, 2005 and 2006; the number planned for 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43356/06]

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liz McManus: It would be good if the Minister was woman enough — being man enough would not be as good. I welcome this debate. This is important legislation but it is also deeply disappointing. I wish to set the legislation in context. Thousands of patients are cared for properly and well each year in our health service but too many are not and they must be the focus of our attention today. The story...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liz McManus: Yes, half the people who die, die in hospital. That, surely, is the point. We need to ensure there is regulation of hospitals because it is at a vulnerable time in our lives that we are likely to be in care in the acute hospital setting. Yet the Bill does not provide the important powers to end bad practice, to regulate the services and to encourage good practice because that is as...