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Written Answers — Ministerial Transport: Ministerial Transport (23 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 518: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of ministerial cars converted to environmentally friendly and fuel efficient alternatives; the Departments they belong to; the number of Ministerial cars that are diesel; the number that are hybrid; the number powered by biofuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25367/07]

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (23 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 624: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received representations from the Italian based environmental organisation, OPEN, asking that he would support the inclusion in the new EU Treaty, an article that would include the objectives of the Trans-European Network on Renewable Energy Sources in regard to the reduction of greenhouse gas...

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding preparations for the final implementation of the EU-US open skies agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24265/07]

Road Network. (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Transport the stage plans the development of the Leinster orbital route have reached; his plans to fund such a project in the lifetime of this Government; if he has plans to extend this road to Arklow or Gorey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24250/07]

Road Network. (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister not appreciate that there is considerable concern in Wicklow, Wexford and Carlow at the Government proposal for an outer orbital route that does not complete the orbit but ends at Naas? The south east has already experienced certain difficulties in economic development and employment. Does the Minister agree that this area would lose out badly if it is not included in this...

Road Network. (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: I appreciate that, but I urge the Minister to keep dealing with that issue which is so fundamentally important. I ask him not to exclude the last leg of the outer orbital on the basis that the Wicklow mountains are in the way. It has been proposed that the road could skirt the southern end of the mountains, but if that does not happen, the south east of Ireland will be at a great...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: A number of Deputies on this side of the House have been trying to find out from the Government which Minister is responsible for the marine. That business has not been well cleared up by the Government. In fact, things are getting fishier. On 12 October a statutory instrument was published, this is secondary legislation, in the name of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Has a new Department been created? Has there been a reshuffle? Do we not have a Minister for energy now?

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Is a Minister double-jobbing?

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Can I also ask if those statutory instruments are now legal? What is going on——

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: I hope he does not go to Clonakilty because poor Deputy Sheehan could not get through on the telephone.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: No, I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle——

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: I am sorry. I did not hear the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: This is important, a Cheann Comhairle. This is about the way the Government manages its affairs and how the public can relate to the Government. It appears we now have two different Departments that have been declared as responsible for statutory instruments in Iris Oifigiúil. That is untenable. The Tánaiste might treat this matter with a little more respect. What is the position? Who...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of pathology laboratories here that hold recognised accreditation; if she has plans to introduce legislation to require accreditation; her views on concerns that laboratories in the US that are carrying out tests for patients here have different codes of practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24015/07]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (17 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an analysis has been carried out on the relative cost of treatments under the National Treatment Purchase Fund as compared with similar treatments in public hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24014/07]

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: The Minister said he had made choices but that is not the case. The Minister had no choice but to pay the bills. People had sent in bills and the Minister had to pay them. It is not a matter of choice.

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: I have the highest regard for all Departments of the Civil Service, and I imagine the Minister's Department excels, but how did its financial management fail to keep pace with demand? We cannot have demand-led schemes in all areas, whose need we have to meet whatever the circumstances, and that is what financial management and forecasting is all about. Can the Minister explain how this went...

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: The bills have already been run up.

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Liz McManus: For clarification, is the Minister saying that, in every area other than the one on which the sum of €1 million was spent, he did not have a choice?