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Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all staff employed by private ambulance services are vetted through the Garda clearance system as per the public service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42750/06]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a company (details supplied) receive moneys from the Health Service Executive for ambulance services; if the HSE or Statutory Ambulance Service have the authority to inspect, assess and set standards of ambulance services offered by private ambulance companies; if the service has been inspected or spot checked by the State...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 291: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if any person or persons made a complaint to the Health Service Executive, Department of Health and Children or the State Ambulance Authorities regarding the conduct of staff or operation of a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42752/06]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all ambulance staff in private ambulance companies, including a company (details supplied) qualified to the expected statutory standard as set down by pre-hospital emergency care council to Irish protocol; the way this is enforced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42753/06]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 293: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if non-national staff employed by a company (details supplied) are qualified to Irish standards and are fully conversant in the English language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42754/06]

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (12 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 519: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take to combat the destruction to the natural environment taking place in County Wicklow by the use of quad bikes; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that quad bikes are used in special areas of conservation; his views on reports of a new EU directive making it a criminal offence...

Written Answers — Drug Seizures: Drug Seizures (7 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the almost tenfold increase in seizures of heroin in the first ten months of 2006 over the same period in 2005, in view of the fact that the UN suggest that such seizures account for only around 25% of the total on the market; the steps the gardaí are taking to reduce the flow of illegal drugs;...

Written Answers — Substance Misuse: Substance Misuse (7 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent 2006 Annual Report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction that drugs in Europe were probably now at their cheapest for five years; if there is information available to the gardaí suggesting a similar drop in prices here; and if he will...

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: I am all for a little Christmas cheer. Hospitals around the country have run over budget and are now receiving revenue funding from the capital fund. My understanding, on the basis of experience gained not long ago in this House——

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: A decision to address this must be taken in this House. Will the Taoiseach state whether a resolution is required in this regard?

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: I did not ask whether the Taoiseach had notification but about the transfer of funding, owing to capital moneys not being spent because of Government incompetence, to make up the shortfall in the hospitals arising from the lack of funding on the revenue side. Does this not require a resolution of the House?

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: This is a matter for this House.

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Does the Taoiseach expect there will be a resolution in the circumstances I have outlined to him?

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: It would be important. The Government got into a bad tangle last year.

Written Answers — Road Signage: Road Signage (6 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount provided for road signage in the Book of Estimates 2007. [41647/06]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (6 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the integrated ticketing project; the timescale and budget this project is working to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41648/06]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (6 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the funding deficit and staffing shortage in a service (details supplied) in County Kildare; her plans to address same; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some services provided are in crisis and unless adequate resources are made available they will be forced to reduce services; her response to these...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: When will the medical practitioners Bill be published?

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: That is not true. The Ceann Comhairle should tell the Taoiseach to tell the truth.

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (5 Dec 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a new report from the board of Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, which called for a review of the decision to locate the new national children's hospital, following reservations from Tallaght Hospital; if she provide the full list of objections from these sources and address each; her further views on the...