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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...

Ambulance Service. (4 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me raise this important issue on the Adjournment. The issue is the urgent need for the location of an emergency ambulance service in the town of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, as the lives of heart attack and road traffic accident patients are being put at risk because the existing emergency ambulance service operating out of Clonmel and Waterford...

Ambulance Service. (4 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: That is only a device to put the issue on the long finger again. I hope the Minister of State will acknowledge the need for an emergency ambulance service in Carrick-on-Suir and he will make a start to providing that service. St. Brigid's Hospital in the town is the ideal location for such a service while a number of health centres are located in the grounds of the hospital. HSE officials...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (4 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Science to immediately approve a site for and the building of a new school for Gaelscoil Cluain Meala — the school is currently located in a substandard overcrowded building and has been waiting for approval for a new school for...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: In view of the fact that instructions from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government will wrongly delete thousands of voters from the register of electors, will the Taoiseach ensure the matter is addressed in the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006?

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach might like to answer the question.

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Question 297: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the long requested emergency ambulance service will be provided in the town of Carrick-on-Suir. [30454/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2006)

Séamus Healy: Question 394: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the length of time it is taking to process carer's allowance applications, carer's benefit applications, respite care grants and carer's allowance appeals; and if he will provide additional staff in his Department and the appeals office to ensure these applications are dealt with expeditiously. [30467/06]