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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (11 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a specific matter of local and national importance requiring urgent attention, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to properly fund and staff the public orthodontic service and widen substantially the orthodontic guidelines used to approve children for treatment as the current service is almost...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Question 537: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application for the building of a new school (details supplied); if she will approve the preferred site for the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31994/06]

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (10 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will approve the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31995/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (10 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to introduce immediately legislation or regulations to implement the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources regarding the location of masts, to prevent...

Youth Services. (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will immediately grant young people's facilities and service fund status to the town of Clonmel, as requested by the RAPID organisation, in view of the fact that Clonmel is under-resourced in the staffing and provision of youth programmes, that this deficiency has precluded the development of important...

Youth Services. (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I am disappointed with the Minister of State's reply because it indicates that the fund will not be made available to Clonmel. Does the series of drug-related murders which took place in the town over the past few years not represent evidence of a drug problem? A youth task force based in the town, Clann Óg, sent a request to the Minister for additional youth workers and reported that...

Youth Services. (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: The report by Clann Óg stated that Clonmel is under-resourced with regard to the number of youth workers in the town delivering youth programmes, a deficiency which precluded the development of important initiatives which could have enhanced social inclusion. Clonmel has not been granted funding for facilities and services for young people or for the springboard project and has not received...

Youth Services. (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister of State aware of the report by Clann Óg?

Youth Services. (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: That report clearly indicates the town does not have sufficient resources or youth workers and that it has not attracted the level of funding received by other towns over the past year.

Youth Services. (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: The money provided in July represented a one-off grant from the dormant accounts scheme.

Youth Services. (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: However, Clann Óg has requested five additional youth workers. Two are welcome but more are needed because the town has suffered serious drug-related crime over the past few years.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I wish to share time with Deputies Morgan and Cuffe. I welcome the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006 and its proposals for dealing with the right of prisoners to vote and the provision for postal voting to allow for that. This provision arises from a decision from the European Court of Human Rights in October 2005, whereby a prisoner in the United Kingdom took a case and the court found in his...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is true and if it is not true, the Minister should advise local authorities that they may use their current records regarding rent, service charges etc. to put people on the register of electors because they do not believe they can do so under the instructions issued by the Minister. The Minister should clarify this to the local authorities if what I am saying is wrong.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister issue instructions to the local authorities stating it is wrong?

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is not very good to return to it here. The officials involved need to know what they are entitled to do. As of now they believe they cannot use those records to put people on the register. I ask the Minister to extend the time period for the review of the register. Under the present timescale it is not possible to review the register in the manner the Minister wants and that we all...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I do not see it. The campaign is in no way conspicuous.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I am serious. Local authority officials are concerned that the campaign is lacklustre, that there is insufficient focus on the campaign and that the vast majority of the public do not even know the review is taking place.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Unless the instructions the Minister issued are changed, unless he extends the timeframe for the review and unless he puts in a proper campaign, we will end up with a register, which is ten times worse than what we have at the moment. I plead with the Minister to put the resources into the campaign, to make the changes I have outlined and to ensure we end up with a proper register. I am not...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Absolutely.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (5 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a specific matter requiring urgent attention, namely, the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to reverse his instructions to local authorities, regarding the review and the compilation of the register of electors, which are a threat to democracy and will wrongly delete thousands...