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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (27 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Question 318: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if same will be awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4182/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Question 448: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding a jobseeker's appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; if this appeal will be dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3526/10]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (26 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Question 617: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3544/10]

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: The Minister will be aware that Enterprise Ireland administers the employment subsidy scheme. Perhaps she can inform me how one can make contact with it in view of the fact that it has no landline.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: I have tried to make contact with Enterprise Ireland and have been told it has no landline.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: It is not possible to raise questions with Enterprise Ireland which administers the employment subsidy scheme.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Is it correct to state they cannot be contacted by telephone?

Haiti Earthquate: Statements (21 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: I extend my sympathies to all the Haitian people who have lost loved ones and suffered catastrophe. I acknowledge in particular the family of Andrew Grene, the Concern employee, and all the United Nations employees who have lost their lives. Every death is a tragic loss and it is awful to see the images on our television screens. One must commend the media, particularly RTE television and...

Haiti Earthquate: Statements (21 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: I do not think a sufficiently strong tank has been built to cater for the needs of Mr. O'Shea. They might implode. The image of the EU battle groups is completely at variance with their purpose. They could be equally called the EU humanitarian aid groups. One of their tasks is humanitarian aid. They comprise 1,500 personnel. The current one is Polish-led. It has trained for six months...

Haiti Earthquate: Statements (21 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Was Haven there?

Haiti Earthquate: Statements (21 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: I can understand that aid agencies want to help when something happens but it can cause difficulties for existing aid agencies when others try to get established. Perhaps the Minister could consider bringing the aid agencies to a forum to consider what could be done. It might not be possible to achieve. We have three farm organisations in this country and three or four football...

Haiti Earthquate: Statements (21 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: The one-party concept has not served this State well but that will change shortly.

Haiti Earthquate: Statements (21 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Too much of it is a bad thing. I am a great believer in economies of scale. One can have one organisation, one job, or one organisation, ten jobs, but not ten organisations, one job, because the job would not be done as effectively as it could be. That is something we could consider. I know there is competition between aid agencies for media space and fund raising, and every one of them...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the dedicated hotline for Deputies queries regarding over 70 years medical card applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2303/10]

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding a passport application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2281/10]

Written Answers — Lost Property: Lost Property (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; if he will follow up on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2306/10]

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: Question 273: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding grants for central heating and insulation in view of the fact that a council (details supplied) has no funding for grants where persons can apply for funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2265/10]

European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: I thank the Minister for his response and wish to take him up on one issue - namely, the advertisements from different agencies seeking money for Haiti. Aid agencies might dispute this as a simplistic approach, but would the Minister agree that there may be merit in aid agencies' concentrating on individual geographical areas rather than different subjects or concepts? If we had one aid...

European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: There are enough problems out there that they can all have a slice of the action. They can have a continent each.

European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Timmins: I understand the issue of development aid has been deferred to next June's Council meeting, but events in Haiti overshadowed the meeting of Development Ministers that took place last week. Will the Minister discuss with his European colleagues the possibility of sending a European Union battle group to Haiti in the context of the United Nations Secretary General's request for additional...