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Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (28 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Question 244: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a thatching grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [18258/07]

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has taken place in the development of a professional meals on wheels service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17712/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing home places, public and private, available in each county for 2007; her plans to extend such places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17711/07]

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Children are waiting for eye treatment for two years.

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and I congratulate Deputy Brian Hayes for his initiative in bringing the motion forward. People are very divided and concerned about this issue. There is grave concern that public property will be moved into private ownership at knock-down prices at the expense of the taxpayer. There has been little consultation about this. The...

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: It was stated recently.

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Varicose veins are covered.

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: There was a discussion on that point. The Minister is saying that it is not the case and I welcome that.

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Varicose veins are allowed, and rightly so. I do not have a difficulty about that, but a child waiting two years for a psychiatric consultation will not be facilitated under the National Treatment Purchase Fund. We know that intervention at an early stage in psychiatric illness and emotional difficulties, especially among children, is vital to the opportunity for a full recovery, and that...

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for dealing with the crisis that currently exists at Mid-Western Regional Hospital where patients in need of dialysis have been turned away due to the fact that the hospital cannot accommodate new patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18001/07]

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: I also wish to add my congratulations and wish you well in your very important role, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Will the Minister comment on the statement by the Irish Kidney Association which she quoted that the situation in the dialysis unit at the Mid-West Regional Hospital in Limerick is appalling? The IKA has blamed the Health Service Executive for the situation that has developed there. Does she agree that the overcrowding in Limerick has been reported and well documented during the years?...

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: It was the Irish Kidney Association.

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: The national renal strategy report was completed in December but has not been published. Why has there been a delay in publishing this important report on renal treatment? Does the Minister agree it is unacceptable that patients must travel from the mid-west area for such treatment? Is it fair to expect them to receive dialysis treatment at night time?

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an appeal against decision to refuse a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [16618/07]

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (26 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Question 451: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a farm retirement pension will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [16615/07]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (26 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Question 499: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding under the dormant accounts education disadvantage and rapid leverage fund will be considered for a school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [16616/07]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: Question 500: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the provision of a special needs assistant will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick in second level school. [16617/07]

Mental Health Services. (26 Jun 2007)

Dan Neville: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting the issue of psychiatric services for debate. I feel honoured this is selected as the first matter for an Adjournment debate in the 30th Dáil. I call on the Government and the Minister for Health and Children to reverse the decision to move the Central Mental Hospital to a site adjacent to the new prison at Thornton Hall in north Dublin. The...

Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Apr 2007)

Dan Neville: I also express my disappointment that the Minister of State was not in a position to deal with this issue. I have met the Castlemahon workers numerous times through their union, as well as individually and collectively. They have had a highly traumatic experience after many years of loyal service to the company and have been made redundant. While the previous tranche of redundancies...