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Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 444: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a telephone (details supplied) was tapped on 17, 18 and 27 March 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16339/06]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 445: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures and guidelines for the tapping of telephones by An Garda Síochána; and if other bodies or persons have the authority to tap telephones. [16340/06]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 473: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance will be given to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 in up-grading their science laboratories in order to promote and teach science in this school; and if their grant will be approved after six years of delay. [15961/06]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 489: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide guaranteed resource hours for all children with Down's Syndrome in mainstream schools at all levels. [16111/06]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 490: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if automatic special needs assistants entitlement will be given to all children with Down's Syndrome at national and secondary school levels. [16112/06]

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: This is an important motion on our natural resources and highlights the urgent need for all our citizens to benefit from them in a fair and just manner. I commend the Independent Members on uniting in tabling this commonsense motion in the taxpayers' interests. We have agreed the fundamental principle that oil and gas reserves in the control of State must belong to the people.

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: They must be recovered and used in a way that benefits the majority of the population rather than powerful corporate interests. We need a Chavez approach, not a Ray Burke one. We need openness, accountability and a fair and sensitive approach to our natural resources. The conservative forces of the new right in society that want simply to hand over our oil and gas reserves to private...

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: We live in the real world.

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Finian McGrath: We do not control them. The Minister is giving them away.

Asylum Applications. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Does the Minister establish the welfare of each child and how he or she might be affected by deportation, separation from a parent or family and the service and protection afforded to him or her by the State? Does the Minister examine the relative safety of each child's destination country, the economic and political conditions and whether it is affected by armed conflict? Does he support the...

Asylum Applications. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: We could have fitted them into Tolka Park.

Asylum Applications. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: He should use reflective language.

Garda Divisional Boundaries. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: The Minister would never do that.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (27 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the urgent need to assist St. Paul's College, Raheny in its request for more resources and finance to deal with: the high insurance costs; the capitation grants and its inadequate contribution to school finance; the inadequate special needs services, such as delays in having children...

Written Answers — Swimming Pool Projects: Swimming Pool Projects (26 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will intervene in the proposed closure of St. Paul's Swimming Pool, Raheny; and if he will outline new swimming facilities on the north side of Dublin in 2006. [15560/06]

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on this important debate on the crisis in the accident and emergency departments of our hospitals. After nine years in power, the Government, in spite of its having had substantial resources and finances at its disposal, has done nothing about the nightmare of patients on trolleys in our hospitals. To me, it is a crime, scandal and disgrace. I find...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: She has not delivered.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (25 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) is receiving all of her entitlements; and if she will work with the family on this matter. [14238/06]

Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (25 Apr 2006)

Finian McGrath: Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will work with the Department of Finance to ascertain if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is receiving all of her entitlements for home care costs; and if the family will be assisted on this matter. [14370/06]