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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 354: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for an extension and refurbishment works to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18781/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (18 Apr 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 492: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans, if any, to maintain personal assistant services for persons with disabilities through community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17732/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 563: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if former separated children or aged out minors who are in full time education and have been recognised as refugees or been granted leave to remain should get support from their local community welfare officer considering their unique circumstances as children who are outside their country of origin without the protection of their...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (18 Apr 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 1159: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the reports into the deaths of children in the care of the State and the report into the Roscommon incest case, the specific actions she has taken to address the failings of the relevant authorities and the measures she has implemented to ensure that there can never be a repeat of such events; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Apr 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 1203: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding changes to a budget (details supplied) and the way he proposes that services can be maintained to support vulnerable persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17733/12]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (18 Apr 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 1270: To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment of the 414 staff for mental health services as announced in the Health Service Executive service plan 2012 has begun and the number of posts that have been filled to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18348/12]

Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: When can we expect the independent review into child deaths in the care of the State to be published, and why the delay? Can the Taoiseach give an update on when we can expect publication of the fifth report of the special rapporteur into child protection?

Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: When can we expect the fifth report of the special rapporteur into child protection?

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building project of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17307/12]

Written Answers — Special Protection Areas: Special Protection Areas (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the success rate over the past two years of appeals to designation of lands as special protection areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17446/12]

Written Answers — Special Protection Areas: Special Protection Areas (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grant assistance available to assist landowners who wish to appeal an special protection area designation (details supplied) to allow them to employ environmental professionals in order to put together the scientific evidence necessary to support their appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17447/12]

Written Answers — Foreign Adoptions: Foreign Adoptions (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding Irish citizens adopting children from Florida in the USA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17313/12]

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the publication of the Mahon tribunal report into planning corruption. Its publication was a sad day for politics here and for my party. It was sad for our party to see some of our former members indicted as having been corrupt by the tribunal and it was sad that the tribunal did not believe our former party leader gave a truthful account of moneys to the tribunal. Both the Mahon...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I agree. I wish to assure the House that the membership comprises of good and honest people and they are members of the party for the right reasons. They have spent many years knocking on doors, working in the community, organising national collections for the party outside church gates and in that case, they have accounted for every penny. It is an absolute betrayal of those members when...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Rightly so. My point is that the findings were not exclusively against the members of one party and we must all ensure that this can never happen again. This will require the Government parties to step up to the mark to ensure that they take responsibility on their side. The Moriarty tribunal found that a Minister who sat at the Cabinet table with many of the members of the current...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I note that the former Minister who initiated those inquiries has criticised the Government.

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: They are ongoing now but the Government has been in office for a year. I ask how much longer they will continue. The Mahon tribunal cost €300 million and we being informed it will be one or two months before the Minister will issue a statement. If the Government was serious about it, the independent investigations should have been continued when the Government came into office-----

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Independent investigations had been done previously and they should have been continued by the Government. I note the lethargic attitude of the Government as to the continuation of this work and it gives out the wrong message as a response to the Mahon tribunal findings. The Government should initiate those independent investigations. I acknowledge it is unfortunate the House has to spend...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (28 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will introduce a policy that public events and festivals be supported by the State through a policy of ensuring that no charges be imposed on voluntary committees by the Gardaí for the provision of Garda services for events thus ensuring that the organisation of local events and festivals are encouraged rather than penalised...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (28 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 230: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in State care who were charged or convicted of any criminal offence in 2010 or 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17059/12]