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Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 427: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of accommodation for the second year class at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and her views on the provision of additional non-pay funding for the school as currently all non-pay funding is provided out of the VEC budget. [27633/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 428: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the recommendation of the special education needs organiser to provide 41 additional teaching hours and to provide resource teaching for children with special educational needs at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary was not implemented; her views on these additional hours; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 429: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason home tuition grants have been withdrawn from children on the autistic spectrum entering special school for the first time (details supplied); the further reason parents of children on the autistic spectrum have been informed that this grant will be withdrawn altogether with effect from 1 January 2005 as the special schools...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 449: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will amend the higher education grant scheme to allow for the eligibility of a non-national person (details supplied); and if pending the necessary amendment local authorities operating the scheme will use discretion to accept applications from this person and others in the same circumstances. [27816/05]

Hospital Services. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: This night three weeks ago a large public meeting was held in Clonmel on hospital services for the county. As the Minister of State, Deputy Tim O'Malley knows, the issue has been outstanding for quite some time. As far back as 1996 there was a High Court agreement for the provision of services on the Cashel and Clonmel sites. The Minister and the Department have not implemented that...

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General: Motion (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: I strongly support this motion. Waste has to be confronted, cannot be condoned and must be eliminated. As someone who has worked at the coalface of general hospital services for more than 20 years, I am keenly aware of the absolute need to efficiently use scarce resources. Were waste confronted, the additional monies made available could be used for hospital, educational and housing services....

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of current budget surplus on revenue accounts for each year from 1998 to 2004 in accordance with Irish and European accounting procedures; and the use to which these surpluses were put. [26931/05]

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: What the Minister has told us is that in the eight years since the Government is in office there is something like €34 billion of a surplus on day-to-day spending. From what he said it is clear the vast majority of that is being spent on capital projects. Should we not prioritise human need over physical infrastructure? What is, in fact, happening with those large surpluses is that they are...

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: It is a question of how that is done and of where the money comes from.

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Is it not true that every other European country borrows for capital projects and that those projects serve generations of people, not just a single generation? Therefore, capital projects should be paid for over a number of generations through capital borrowing. Is the Minister saying he is successful in spite of the trolleys and MRSA in hospital wards, the 50,000 families on the waiting...

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Almost 1,000 people are unemployed in Carrick-on-Suir. The Minister could have done something about it by decentralising a State body to the region. Why did he not do so?

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: He could have done so two years ago. Why did he not do it?

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Some 20% are unemployed in Carrick-an-Suir.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise the following matter of urgent national importance: the need for the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to double the winter fuel allowance payable to social welfare recipients in view of the recent 25% increase in the price of gas from 1 October and the fact that the €9 fuel allowance will not now even buy a...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need to remove the funding cap imposed in 2002 on Rape Crisis centres and services for support of women who have experienced domestic violence and that these services be adequately funded in the forthcoming budget to ensure that a full and effective service is provided by these organisations.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I support the motion, which asks the Comptroller and Auditor General to review and report to the Oireachtas on the procedure concerning the purchase of the land in question. I listened to Deputy Hoctor commend the Minister for his work in the area of justice. I would remind her of the 2,000 gardaí we were to have under the programme for Government, the absence of community gardaí in many...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (29 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely the need for the Government to honour its election promise and programme for Government by introducing maximum class guidelines to ensure the pupil-teacher ratio for children under nine years of age is below international best practice of 1:20. Government inaction...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to expand the terms of reference of the Hartnett-Rossiter inquiry and to establish the inquiry under recent public inquiry legislation introduced by the Minister instead of the out of date Dublin Police...

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken to address the very serious and long-standing unemployment levels in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary since he met a deputation from the town council and Oireachtas Members on 19 July 2005; the number of site visits to Carrick-on-Suir the industrial promotion agencies have arranged since that date;...

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: In view of the Minister's reply today and his replies to other questions in the last session is it not true that he has washed his hands of job creation in Carrick-on-Suir? Since the deputation met the Minister on 19 July last, no job has been created and there has been no site visit to the town. The Minister and the Government have abandoned the town of Carrick-on-Suir. There are 960 people...