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Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (11 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which he envisages lone parents under the Government's discussion paper on proposals to support lone parents be prioritised in terms of accessing flexible childcare provision; and if he has consulted with the Department of Health and Children to allow for measures to address this issue under the new childcare programme...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department intends to reassess the criteria for the entitlement to the blind pension allowance in view of the nature of the case involving a person who is travelling to Scotland for their studies and has therefore been denied the right to the pension (details supplied). [17539/06]

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

Dan Boyle: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to explain to the House the reasons an additional €1 million is not being given to the southern area of the Health Service Executive to provide for the immunisation of new-born children against the acquisition of tuberculosis,...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has satisfied himself that the national travel card is an acceptable means of identification across all transport modes here. [17637/06]

Europe and the Developing World: Statements. (10 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Yesterday, the People's Republic of China was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council. China has an appalling human rights record in the context of its actions in Tibet and its approach to its Muslim minority and the practitioners of Falun Gong. Why has the EU — and Ireland as part thereof — not been sufficiently strong in condemning China's human rights record? Is not its...

Europe and the Developing World: Statements. (10 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: We need to examine the role of the EU in respect of the developing world. Disappointment must be expressed at the collective role of EU member states in meeting their millennium development goals, which will not be achieved. Ireland has failed to protest against this and has not met its own goals. The reality is that, in many respects, there is no common EU standard of aid. The aid and trade...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: The Government caused the problems.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: These are the Government's problems.

Written Answers — National Emergency Plan: National Emergency Plan (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Defence if the Civil Defence services have participated in exercises under the national emergency plan for nuclear accidents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17178/06]

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 454: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of amalgamated primary schools that exist here; the dates such amalgamations occurred; and the period in each circumstance after which new school facilities were provided. [17407/06]

Cross-Border Projects. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this sensitive issue. It relates to the employment practices and recruitment policy of Safefood, an all-island agency responsible for food protection on the island of Ireland. It saddens me to raise this issue. Is the Minister of State informing me that he is not taking the adjournment? The Minister is not in the Chamber yet. Must I wait for a...

Cross-Border Projects. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: I realise that but it is part of the Deputy's responsibility.

Cross-Border Projects. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will allow me I will give the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Brian Lenihan, the opportunity to hear how I opened my contribution. This is an issue of some sensitivity and relates to the recruitment practices and employment policy of Safefood, one of the important North-South bodies established in recent years. It saddens me that...

Cross-Border Projects. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: There were more than two complaints and I will explain how that arose. Either Safefood has supplied the Minister with incorrect information or — I do not even want to think in these terms — the House has been misled. I subsequently received a communication from Dr. Cherie Millar, also from Ballymena, County Antrim, who in 2004 applied for a full-time position as chief specialist of...

Cross-Border Projects. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: I respect the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's ruling on that.

Cross-Border Projects. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: I am merely pointing out the source of my information, which I received from Dr. Rao. This doctor received an invitation from Safefood, as did other doctors of foreign extraction including Chinese and Japanese. The invitation was framed in such a way that it seemed to exclude people working in the field who may not have been Irish. To send out documentation of this nature speaks of a culture...

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: I want to raise two items. One concerns last night's "Prime Time" programme. Can the Taoiseach confirm that sections of the Children's Act which have yet to be brought into force, could comprise elements as regards how the Government should be dealing with this problem? Will he give a commitment to the House that all sections of the Children's Act that have yet to be enforced will be...

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: It has significant implications for the legislation. This has to do with whether the published legislation remains valid because the statement by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform indicates he is not following Government policy. It has to do with mass burn incineration and whether he is prepared to support the building of a particular incinerator. I would like to know the...

Overseas Missions. (9 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Defence when legislation will be forthcoming to facilitate Ireland's participation in EU battle groups; the details of the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17179/06]

Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (4 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 31: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the main findings identified to date as the barriers to the use and marketing of recyclable material by the Market Development Group set up by the Department of the Environment in 2004. [16642/06]