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Written Answers — Prison Medical Service: Prison Medical Service (20 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there have been any confirmed or reported cases of MRSA in prisons; the protocols which are in place in the prison medical service to deal with such an event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29735/05]

Written Answers — Prison Drug Treatment Services: Prison Drug Treatment Services (20 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Prison Service has a policy that sets a maximum dosage of methadone allowable for prisoners; if so, the details of the maximum dosage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29736/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (20 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason it has taken over two years to sanction resource teaching support to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29851/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (20 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if promised resource teaching for fifth and sixth class will be made available within the next six months to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin under the new general allocation scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29852/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (20 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate an issue of urgent national importance, namely, the alarmingly high drop-out rates among students at second level, particularly young males, the need to identify and tackle the causes of this social timebomb and the need for the Government and Minister for Education and Science to stop sticking their heads in the sand when...

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (19 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Transport when work on the upgrade of the main Kildare-Dublin rail line will commence and be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29490/05]

Written Answers — Traffic Management: Traffic Management (19 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to allow cars with three or more occupants to access bus lanes; the analysis he has carried out on this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29491/05]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (19 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 339: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will clarify, in the wake of comments made by the Tánaiste on the Order of Business in Dáil Éireann on 13 October 2005, whether a refundable deposit on beverage containers such as bottles and cans would be in breach of or affected by the packaging directive; the way in which this equates with...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the criticism made by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the national treatment purchase fund; the amount the treatment purchase fund has cost in 2005; if she can justify spending a reported €600 on a taxi for a patient; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28961/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has a record of the membership of ethics committees of hospitals that are in receipt of State funding; if she keeps a record of decisions taken by those committees in hospitals that are in receipt of State funding; her views on whether such committees should be selected if the patient's best interests are to be...

Sports Facilities. (13 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the carrying out of a national audit of sports facilities scheduled for 2006-07; if guidelines have been issued to the inter-agency steering group regarding the scope of such an audit and if it will include school facilities; if such an audit will be used as a baseline year to measure progress in the targeted...

Tax Code. (13 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the artists' exemption scheme; if a cost and benefit analysis has been applied to the scheme; his views regarding the ongoing retention of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28423/05]

Tax Code. (13 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Has the Minister for Finance confirmed that the artists' exemption scheme was not among the 30 such schemes being reviewed? Has the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism made his views known to the Minister for Finance in terms of the secondary benefits to the country? For example, personalities such as Bono, Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan and even Cecelia Ahern may earn large amounts of money in...

Tax Code. (13 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I thank the Minister for his reply. Certain exemption schemes involve holiday homes, or stallion services, and nobody can say that the work of a stallion is of any intrinsic artistic merit. Could the Minister give a commitment before the House that he will ask the Arts Council to commission a cost benefit analysis so that the intrinsic social and economic benefit to this country of this...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 1. (13 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following issue of national importance, namely, the need for the Ministers for Transport and Justice, Equality and Law Reform to tackle not just the waiting list for driving tests but the increasing incidence of sloppy driving, dangerous driving and drink driving in built up areas by a minority of motorists, Irish and...

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: There will be another 400 people killed by then.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Given the threats facing our tourism industry in the next ten years and given the huge litter problem the country faces, an issue my colleagues and I raised in the House 18 months ago, will the Tánaiste give a commitment that legislation will be introduced for a refundable deposit on bottles and cans, which would halve the litter problem overnight and would not cost the State a penny?

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (12 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the level of activity on each of the metropolitan area networks in operation during the first six months of 2005 in relation to the development telecommunications infrastructure; and the overall value in sales from those transactions. [27838/05]

Written Answers — Energy Efficiency: Energy Efficiency (12 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the measures he will take to ensure that Ireland will achieve the new European goal of 20% energy efficiency improvements by 2020. [27837/05]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (11 Oct 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the Government has failed to deliver its own priority objectives in the national youth work development plan, including the appointment of an assessor for youth work, the capacity building of youth work organisations and the vocational educational committees, and the establishment of a development unit for youth work in...