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Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: I wish to share time with Deputies Shatter and Perry.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Mr. Fitzgerald found that there was a fundamental weakness in management and governance of the process from the outset. What concerns me is that people are now beginning to feel a lack of confidence in the Health Service Executive. This has been developing for some time in the Houses of the Oireachtas, mainly due to a lack of...

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: I am talking about what took place at the Oireachtas committee meeting last week. There was a similar situation during the previous meeting on cancer services. There is concern at the lack of accountability to Members of the Oireachtas in regard to the delivery of health services, let alone cancer services. It now appears that not even you are informed. I asked a simple question locally——

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: I am sorry. I asked a simple question two weeks ago of the parliamentary affairs division about the dialysis unit in Limerick city but it has not come back to me. I asked Professor Drumm about the matter last week and he said he would write to me but he did not do so. The whole communications system is breaking down and there is misrepresentation. Last October I inquired whether funds for...

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details on the backgrounds of the people who contributed to the international advisory forum on next generation networks in Dublin in February 2008; if other people were asked to contribute but were unavailable; the names of those people; his views on whether the forum had a consequent lack...

Capitation Grants: Motion (11 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Hear, hear.

Capitation Grants: Motion (11 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Hear, hear.

Capitation Grants: Motion (11 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: What is he doing in government?

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of psychiatric patients the Health Service Executive has sent to uncredited facilities; the location of these facilities; the amount of money spent on their care in these facilities; her views on whether it is acceptable to send patients to facilities that are not accredited and are not inspected by the Mental Health...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide the necessary funding to staff a residential bungalow (details supplied) in County Cork. [10168/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a special fund in her Department entitled the innovation fund; and if so, the size and purpose of that fund. [10426/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (11 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to parliamentary Question No. 251 of 12 February 2008, if she has received a report in respect of the death by suicide of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she forwarded a copy to the spouse of the deceased. [10427/08]

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (11 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 545: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure that the grant for thatching of the roof for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick is granted without further delay. [10744/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (6 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason home caring spouse credit was not given as a tax credit to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9818/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (6 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick is not getting the home caring credit on their husbands tax free allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9819/08]

Written Answers — Suicide Prevention: Suicide Prevention (6 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review her decision to freeze in Budget 2008 the implementation of the recommendations of Reach Out, the national strategy for action on suicide prevention. [9794/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for change in Government policy leading to the widespread asset stripping of the Victorian asylums and lands without corresponding provision and development of modern and high quality psychiatric facilities envisaged in a A Vision for Change. [9795/08]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will speed up the processing of a holiday visa application on behalf of a person (detail supplied). [9820/08]

Job Creation. (5 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: So has the Deputy.

Schools Building Projects. (5 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. There is an urgent need for a new national school in Kilfinane. Various promises were made since 2001 and there is deep concern that the school was not included in the most recent announcement on schools building projects. The Department of Education and Science commissioned a feasibility study for the school in 1999 which...