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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (1 Jun 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of major national importance, namely, the scandal of 63 beds lying idle in Mayo General Hospital, 33 of which are orthopaedic beds, which we are told will never open because the hospital is awaiting sanction of staff, and another 28 of which are elderly medicine beds while two are palliative care beds. These have...

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise the plight of hill farmers in this Adjournment debate. Yesterday, I was at a meeting in Westport, which was attended by at least 500 farmers from Mayo, Connemara and Sligo. They are annoyed about what they perceive as a threat to reduce REPS payments. It is unfair to expect hill farmers to take a 30% cut in incomes, as a result of the Fischler CAP...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Defence the situation with regard to improvement works at the Reserve Defence Forces location in Castlebar, County Mayo, at which there are two accommodation blocks still without electricity and improvements are needed in the cookhouse and on the fire alarm system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15186/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the situation at Mayo General Hospital, at which there is no resident speech therapist available for patients; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been unable to have essential speech therapy despite the urgent need for same and that...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the lack of facilities and support at Mayo General Hospital for amputees; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the north-west amputee support group was promised five years ago an on-site workshop, which would enable clinic to carry out repairs and alterations, but that this has not...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: He has washed his hands totally.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: They are consistent. That is the trouble.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I was intrigued in listening to the Minister of State. I do not know what world he is living in but it does not appear to be the real world because what he is talking about does not make sense to me or anybody else in the House. It is obvious the Government wants to progress its agenda. By handing it over to the chief executive officers for the next six months, it believes it can achieve...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I am upset about the situation with regard to this Bill. On Committee Stage, I discovered a worthwhile amendment was ruled out of order without any apparent reason as to why this should happen, which was a waste of time. Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 seek to ensure that the democracy being removed from the health services through the abolition of the health boards is returned and that whatever part...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (25 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of major concern, namely, the terrible plight of hill farmers, who are being threatened with up to 40% reductions in REPS payments, and the threat that it poses to all farmers with commonage and SAC land under area 8 application, who are forced to be in either REPS or the national compensation scheme. That is...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: Question 304: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when operative orthopaedics will officially commence at Mayo General Hospital. [14172/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: Question 348: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there has been no progress on the situation whereby one single consultant rheumatologist is responsible for the entire rheumatology service of the Western Health Board area and more besides; his views on whether this is acceptable one year after consultant rheumatologists and patient advocacy groups presented their case to...

Special Educational Needs. (18 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this matter concerning two children in the same family. The eldest child in the family waited three years to be assessed for dyslexia by the Department of Education and Science. It was a matter of concern as he was 11 years old, with one year left in national school. He was finally assessed by the Department on 30 September 2003. As a result, he was...

Maritime Security Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I am happy to speak on this important Bill. As an island nation, we are vulnerable to whatever threats the sea might bring to us. Those who live by the coast in my area have always been sustained by the sea. In hard times gone by, people survived on it. In the ravages of the Famine, those who lived by the sea had greater chances of survival than those living inland. It is important that we be...

Order of Business. (18 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I seek clarification or direction from the Taoiseach on the question of legislation to deal with trained ambulance personnel, EMTs, who are unable to administer essential drugs because they are not licensed to do so. They are not legally qualified even though they have the capability and knowledge to do so. Legislation in this regard has been promised but there has been no guidance. When will...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (18 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of major importance: the continuing failure of the Government to provide a dedicated helicopter emergency medical service, HEMS, for our people, at a capital cost of €12 million, despite the recommendation for such a service in the recently published HEMS study; and the continuing failure of...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (4 May 2004)

Jerry Cowley: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of the dormant accounts that were opened in the names of persons living outside the State; the total amount of moneys in these accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12574/04]

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Jerry Cowley: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Jerry Cowley: The Minister does not have the floor. She will have her opportunity shortly.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Jerry Cowley: Is that agreed? Agreed.