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Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: The upgrading of the home help service over the past ten years has probably been the most significant development in health services in this country. Home help staff in the 21st century are highly trained, dedicated and proficient in delivering excellent quality of care and assistance to thousands of vulnerable people who wish to live in their homes, their own environment and in the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: Mr. Murphy mentioned an involvement between rural transport services and school transport. What liaison has taken place between Bus Éireann and private operators? Is there room for rural transport services to get involved in that? Also, what is the percentage of private operators in the provision of rural bus services? What percentage of the vehicles do the rural bus companies own?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: Will the interim stops in the smaller towns be retained on the Kerry to Limerick and Kerry to Cork routes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: Very good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: I welcome the delegation from Bus Éireann. I wish to raise questions on the Expressway routes. County Kerry, a peripheral county in the south-west corner of the country is reliant on tourism. Bus Éireann is a core service and provides access to the county. The patients in County Kerry are transferred to the regional hospitals in Limerick and Cork. There is a great deal of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: Has the CTTC made a submission to the Department of Education and Skills that would justify the contract being put out to tender? Some of the routes have been revised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Public Service Obligation Bus Contracts: Discussion (17 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: I welcome the delegation of private operators. What percentage of the school transport routes would have a service? There has been a review and restructuring which has led to a reduction in such routes over the past 12 months in particular. If the private operators had a larger share of that market, would they provide a more competitive service at a reduced cost, which may enable the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (17 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an appointment at the earliest possible date in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45247/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of loans that have been sanctioned to small to medium six businesses during the past 12 months; the number of these that were new businesses; the total value of these loans; the number that were refused loans during the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44781/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the 4000 properties identified by the National Assets Management Agency for social housing; the number of transactions that have taken place to date; the number of these properties that are in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44795/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will investigate the poor mobile phone reception in the Kenmare area of County Kerry with particular emphasis given to the Lauragh and Bonane area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44785/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the 4000 properties identified by the National Assets Management Agency for social housing; the number of transactions that have taken place to date; the number of these properties that are in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44796/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Issues (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding fire charges whereby the fire brigade is called out by someone other than the property owner and the property owner subsequently ends up being billed for the call out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44782/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue in relation to a disadvantaged area scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44317/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44431/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44442/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue in relation to a disadvantaged area scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44492/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44663/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the Health Service Executive grant to a foundation (details supplied) who are in urgent need of assistance towards the cost of running their services, providing intensive home nursing care, funding and support to the families of children under four years of age with brain damage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44791/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (16 Oct 2012)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the National Roads Authority to provide the necessary funding at the earliest possible date for the resurfacing of the road through Sneem Village, County Kerry and for the provision of new footpaths in the village (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44772/12]