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Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (12 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation with regard to the eligibility of students for third level grants at an institute of technology (details supplied); if students at this college are eligible for third level grants without the college having to go through the HETAC; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15847/05]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider introducing prostate screening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15421/05]

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: I have seen some of the Minister's promotional literature. He should get somebody else to produce it for him.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: It is a long way from Carna to this Bill.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: Sometimes it is unsatisfactory when the Second Stage debate on a Bill is interrupted by an interval of a number of weeks. However, when the debate adjourned, I was discussing the provisions for updating the electoral register. While there is a provision for adding names to the register up to 14 days before an election, I submit that a similar provision allowing for the removal of names from a...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: To the people in his own constituency.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: It will only be the crumbs.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: Will it be paid before the election?

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: The Ministers are rattled.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: That is what the Minister should do.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: That Minister is getting his payback.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: The Ceann Comhairle should be careful in case the Minister writes about him next Sunday.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: There are things happening now that never happened before.

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (10 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: Question 289: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when she intends to implement the findings of the recently published report on the early retirement scheme from farming; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14840/05]

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: The Minister of State could not say the same about hospital waiting lists.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: Like Deputy Pat Breen, I am disappointed but not surprised that the Tánaiste is not here, as is her duty, to respond or listen to this debate on a very serious topic.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: She could have got one of her €1 million per year advisers to stand in for her in whatever she is doing.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: She should be here to listen to the debate and to give this serious matter the attention it deserves. Everyone recognises that since the Tánaiste became Minister, the situation in accident and emergency departments has got considerably worse. Many people are on trolleys overnight and sometimes for up to 30 to 40 hours. At University College Hospital, Galway, the situation has got...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: Yes. So she has stated. However, she also states the country is awash with money. She spends €1 million a year on public relations advisers and other public relations people. She spends €135,000 on one public relations person alone. I do not know what those people are doing. It would be far better if that €1 million was allocated to relieve the situation at University College Hospital...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Pádraic McCormack: There is no point in interrupting me. I do not know if the Minister of State is the Minister for decommissioning, decentralisation or something else. He is certainly not the Minister for Health and Children.