Results 21,481-21,500 of 21,588 for speaker:Denis Naughten

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will provide additional funding to Teagasc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15552/04]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the supervisory role of the Department in relation to Teagasc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15553/04]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the last date on which he visited each Teagasc research centre; the reason for this visit; his plans to visit any such centres in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15620/04]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the last date on which he visited each Teagasc agricultural college; the reason for the visit; his plans to visit any colleges in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15621/04]

Written Answers — Litter Pollution: Litter Pollution (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans the Office of Public Works have of placing rubbish bins in the Phoenix Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15514/04]

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

Denis Naughten: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if cyclodiode treatment is available in hospitals; the locations at which the procedure is performed; the frequency of this procedure being performed at each facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15202/04]

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

Denis Naughten: Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 will be called for an operation at Beaumont Hospital; and if they are entitled to have the procedure performed under the treatment purchase fund scheme, in view of the fact that they have been on a waiting list for four years. [15488/04]

Written Answers — Health Board Services: Health Board Services (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 304: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the current embargo on home help will be lifted by health boards due to the extreme hardship it causes to vulnerable persons. [15656/04]

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 391: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the current status of the application which is with his Department for the upgrading to the Ballyleague sewerage scheme; when he will approve funding for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15529/04]

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

Denis Naughten: Hear, hear.

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

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak on these amendments. I support those tabled by Deputies McManus and Cowley. I echo what my colleague, Deputy Olivia Mitchell, said — there is no mention in the legislation of democratic accountability and, in fact, the opposite is the case. It is somewhat hypocritical to be debating the Health (Amendment) Bill 2004 because it should be called the Hanly...

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

Denis Naughten: They took difficult decisions and it galls me to hear references to the vested interests of councillors. I served on the Western Health Board for six years and the only vested interests I ever saw were those of the professional representatives who were only interested in their own angles and what suited them and their own members, rather than the public. If we want reform, we should look at...

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

Denis Naughten: The Bill allows for the implementation of the Hanly report. For the Minister of State to suggest that the Bill has nothing to do with the report is disingenuous. The Royal College of Physicians has a regulation that was due to be implemented on 1 July 2003 but allowed a stay of execution for 12 months. It will be introduced on 1 July 2004. It will mean that the 24 hour accident and emergency...

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

Denis Naughten: That is a misleading statement. There is no root and branch reform.

Order of Business. (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Not before 11 June.

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

Denis Naughten: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent importance, namely, in light of the virtual collapse of the penalty points system following the recent court decision on the use of Garda speed detection equipment, the urgent need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, to explain why such equipment was purchased without...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (18 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action he is taking to upgrade primary schools in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14112/04]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (18 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he intends to complete his cost review of school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14111/04]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (18 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary, post-primary and special needs pupils availing of the school transport service in each year from and including 1996/97 to date for each group; the cost of the service in each year; the parental contribution in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14319/04]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (18 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Transport when his Department commissioned the new study into the Dublin Bus market; the terms of reference for this study; when he hopes to be in possession of the study; if the review of the 1932 Act is dependent on the outcome of the study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14613/04]