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Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if medical card holders will have cervical smears for no charge; and if she will review the current practise where general practitioners now charge medical card holders for such smears. [19131/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if persons who are in receipt of a disability allowance and resident of a residential home are entitled to a refund of the portion of their payment retained by the residential home in view of the fact that they are medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19234/05]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 418: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make more generous provision for work permit applications for white collar skilled jobs made on behalf of non-EU nationals who have completed third level qualifications at institutions here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19461/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 432: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will review the practice whereby his Department awards disability allowance payments directly to residential homes instead of to the recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19232/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will arrange for a split system of payment where the claimant will receive some of the payment directly if he or she spends a number of nights at home on a weekly basis in cases where disability allowance payments are paid to residential homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19233/05]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 579: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider the plight of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will allow this person to remain here. [19044/05]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 580: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider the plight of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will allow this person to remain here. [19045/05]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 581: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider the plight of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will allow this person to remain here. [19046/05]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 582: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider the plight of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will allow this person to remain here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19047/05]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 621: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will give consideration to the wish of a person (details supplied) in County Clare to remain in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19353/05]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (14 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 749: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance will be given to a school (details supplied) in obtaining a new physical education hall via a prefabricated building system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19543/05]

Written Answers — Ministerial Meetings: Ministerial Meetings (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting on 12 May 2005 with the EU Agriculture Commissioner, Ms Mariann Fischer Boel. [17390/05]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns expressed in the Revenue Commissioner's outline implementation for decentralisation about the impact of the scheme on their work, including high costs and potentially damaging loss of expertise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18295/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made on the interim cardiac plan for Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18203/05]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (26 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a tourist visa will be granted to a person (details supplied). [17761/05]

Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (25 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she intends to take arising from the publication of the report of the task force on obesity; if it is intended to implement the recommendations of the report in so far as they relate to her Department's areas of responsibilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17367/05]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the total number of applications received by the 16 May 2005 deadline under the new single payment scheme; the proportion of farmer numbers this represents; the position regarding farmers who have missed the deadline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17366/05]

Bovine Disease Controls. (25 May 2005)

Mary Upton: The fact that there have been no prosecutions for breaking the law regarding animals born after 1996 that have been detected with BSE is of some concern. As recently as two weeks ago, the Minister will know, an animal born in 2001, five years after the ban was effectively meant to have been in place, was found to be infected — if we take 1997 as the relevant date, it is four years. That is...

Legal Settlement. (25 May 2005)

Mary Upton: I have some concerns about the confidentiality clause that seems to be built into this. The money spent is public money so it should not be confidential. The Department was willing to defend its position at the outset, yet suddenly an agreement was reached and the whole issue became confidential. Even though we do not know the amount involved, there is clearly a great amount of taxpayers'...

Food Safety Standards. (25 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Have any countries or factories within countries been removed from the list? Although detailed figures may not be available, I am interested to know whether sanctions are applied. Are spot checks conducted by the Food and Veterinary Office or is advance warning given? The inspector is similar to a teacher determining whether a student's homework is completed, and after he or she leaves upon...