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Tourism Industry. (22 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on whether the importance of tourism as a driver for economic survival is not being adequately recognised by Government and is reflected in the struggle for survival being experienced by tourism providers, especially in the west and in areas of Mayo which are heavily dependent on tourism; the steps he will take to rectify...

Tourism Industry. (22 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. Given that one in 12 people is employed in the tourism sector, tourism is not a part of the economic debate in the same way as farming and fishing, for example, as it should be. Places like Swinford, Kilkelly, Achill, Mulranny, Newport, Blacksod and Charlestown depend on tourism, but they are not getting their fair share of the visitors to the...

Written Answers — Natural Gas Grid: Natural Gas Grid (10 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will commission an independent QRA in the interest of the health and safety of the residents who will be compelled to live beside the Mayo gas upstream gas pipeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8396/05]

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (10 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I support this amendment. There are more ways to deal with this issue than to always use private enterprise. This is about ensuring the taxpayer gets value for money because, after all, this tax would otherwise be available to the Exchequer to be spent on things that need to be done. In the context of this amendment and the previous two, there is a need to ensure that anybody getting tax...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: This is a good Bill with which I agree. The problem in our neck of the woods is the difficulty in getting started in the first place, never mind to complete what has is already constructed. I am a founding member of the Irish Rural Dwellers Association. I congratulate the Minister on his proposal to make the Irish Rural Dwellers Association a prescribed body so it can nominate people to An...

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: We now come to amendment No. 12 in the name of Deputy Burton. Amendment No. 15 is related. Amendments Nos. 12 and 15 may be discussed together by agreement.

Finance Bill 2005: Motion to Recommit. (9 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I ask the Deputy to deal with the recommittal motion first.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive orthodontic treatment; if the relevant authority will review this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7759/05]

Written Answers — Natural Gas Grid: Natural Gas Grid (8 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to his reply to the Adjournment debate on 2 March 2005 (details supplied), if he will release a copy of the statutory approvals issued for the Corrib pipeline development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7936/05]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (8 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: My problem with the amendment is that its statement of strategy, detailing plans for funding the care of the elderly in both public and private nursing homes, omits care in the community and in a person's own home. Elderly people want to continue living in their own homes. Who wants to spend his or her life in a community only to have to go in retirement to a far away place where he or she...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (8 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: There are provisions in the community to support older people, even those not fit to go home, whether on a short or long-term basis. There is also provision for respite services. However, these provisions are only available in particular situations and locations. Under the old system, the health boards provided what were known as welfare homes, now referred to as community nursing units....

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (2 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will commission an urgent feasibility study into the need to replace the existing peat power station, which is closing down with the loss of more than 200 jobs, with a new peat burning 100 megawatt power station (details supplied). [7271/05]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (2 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the deportation order regarding a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be cancelled due to a change in the family circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7257/05]

Natural Gas Grid. (2 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this important matter on the Adjournment. The people of Erris, who have been compelled to have the Corrib gas upstream pipeline adjacent to their homes, are scared out of their minds. They have discovered, through the Minister's replies to my parliamentary questions, that no independent quantified risk assessment has been carried out on the Corrib...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (2 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: This Bill is a fiasco and is 29 years too late. Serious questions need to be asked on how we arrived at this situation. There should surely be some mechanism in this State to ensure that this sort of thing does not happen. We have already had the situation regarding medical cards for persons over 70, where the Department of Health and Children did not know how many people were over 70. That...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the failure of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to release the industry commissioned quantified risk assessment, QRA, on the Corrib gas pipe line and why he will not commission an independent QRA in the interest of the health and safety of the residents...

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (1 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6523/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive orthodontic treatment; if the relevant authority will review this urgent case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7006/05]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (1 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to save the lives of at least 200 women from dying of breast cancer, by making the national treatment purchase fund available to provide a temporary breast screening service to women living in the south and west, pending the full national roll-out of BreastCheck, which is estimated to be 2007 or...

Written Answers — Offshore Exploration: Offshore Exploration (1 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make available for public examination the quantified risk assessment report commissioned by Enterprise Energy Ireland Limited in 2001 on the Corrib gas pipeline; his views on whether this quantified risk assessment is acceptable as an independent quantified risk assessment given that it was...