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Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on the anomaly which exists regarding the payment of school secretaries, with some getting paid directly by her Department with proper salaries and pension entitlements while others doing the same work are reliant on the amount the school authorities decide to a pay them; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 539: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some school secretaries being paid directly by schools have not received the pay increase granted in July 2006 or the increase granted from January 2007, with schools pleading an inability to pay despite circulars sent from her Department to schools stating differently, her views on...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (7 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, how the Government can condone the disgraceful lack of speech therapists at Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar, considering the critical role played by speech therapists, particularly in the immediate period after a stroke, and the terrible tragedy of somebody not regaining essential...

European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Health Service Reform: Motion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: When the Taoiseach or Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, are asked about deficiencies in the health service they cite statistics to show the amount of money supposedly being spent on health. Despite this expenditure, the two-tier health service is alive and well. For example, Mayo General Hospital holds ear, nose and throat clinics on two days each week. Those attending the...

Educational Disadvantage. (7 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this extremely important matter and I welcome the Minister of State. I am very concerned about what is happening in Mayo, which seems to have been particularly hard hit in respect of the DEIS review. Approximately 25 schools are affected in the county, which is above the national average. I am concerned about how the review was carried out. No one...

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (7 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the persons responsible for the €3.75 billion underspend in the Border Midland Western region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3954/07]

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (7 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 236: To ask the Minister for Finance if on the basis of information available to him from monitoring committee reports, including their assessments of continuing spend under the current National Development Plan, he expects that by the end of the programme period in six weeks time, the original forecasts for Exchequer and EU spending in the Border Midlands Western region will have...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the expenditure from her Department in each of the eight Health Service Executive regional areas in 2002 and in 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4487/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients on the urology out-patient waiting list at MGH for 2001 and 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4491/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for an MRI with view to surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4492/07]

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (8 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children is she will resolve the long ongoing claims being pursued by the Irish Nurses Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association, particularly with regard to hours of work and the anomaly between child-care workers and registered nurses and midwives; her views on whether these justifiable claims need to be addressed; and if she will...

Written Answers — Home Care Packages: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a family is in receipt of the home care grant for a parent, if they have to register as an employer to avail of this payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4498/07]

Written Answers — Home Care Packages: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people in each county who applied for a home care grant; the number of applicants who received this payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4499/07]

Written Answers — Home Care Packages: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the home care grant is means tested; if this provision is not essentially about care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4500/07]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (8 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the standard of accommodation being allocated to psychiatric patients on a boarding out scheme; if there are minimum standards of accommodation required; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4501/07]

Disadvantaged Status. (13 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the DEIS scheme in County Mayo and guarantee the same funding and benefits beyond 2007; the reason for the anomaly where one of two second level schools on Achill Island has been excluded, although all 11 feeder schools on the island are deemed disadvantaged by her Department and a similar situation exists in...

Disadvantaged Status. (13 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: I thank the Minister for her reply but she has engineered a crisis in Mayo. Schools are distressed because of a situation which is equivalent to losing a teacher. Class sizes will have to be increased and she has increased divisiveness and discrimination in Mayo. I asked specifically about the situation on Achill Island, a deprived area in which there are 13 schools, some 11 of which are...

Disadvantaged Status. (13 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: The second school never got free meals. It is not equitable. The figures the Minister used are based on school statistics for 1995, 1996 and 1997, a long time ago. Of the schools excluded from the scheme, 25% are in Mayo. The figures for Dublin show that 38 schools applied and 26 were accepted, with 12 being refused. In Mayo, nine schools applied and only one was accepted. That is...

Disadvantaged Status. (13 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Will that continue beyond 2007?