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Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——whether in low security prisons or from absconding while on temporary release? One person has been on temporary release from prison since 1992. Will the Tánaiste say if the Government intends to make any amendment in respect of the pharmacy (No. 1) Bill or pharmacy (No. 2) Bill to introduce an arbitration system to ensure there will not be chaos after 1 March?

Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Thousands of people are concerned about whether they will be able to get their prescribed medicines after this date.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of cases for review that have been taken by the National Council for Special Education to date arising from a request by parents following assessment of their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5642/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number, in respect of the Special Education Appeals Board, of meetings held by the board since its inaugural meeting; the number of cases examined by the board to date; the number of cases waiting for decision; the relevant sections of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 that remain to be commenced...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 359: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of cases where the National Council for Special Education has overturned or changed a decision taken by a special education needs organiser in relation to the assessment needs of a child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5644/08]

Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: I met the Taoiseach before Christmas and we discussed a number of issues relating to Dáil reform. Deputy Stanton submitted a list of proposals from our party to the Government Whip. I think that yesterday's Joint Committee on Health and Children should have been broadcast to the nation because people have a great interest in these things. My views on having a platform for broadcasting the...

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting of the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31359/07]

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach when the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships will next meet; the number of meetings of the team planned for 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3544/08]

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: That is a recent addendum to the normal way the Taoiseach answers these questions by referring them to the line Minister.

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: I have a concern about the provision of broadband. There is a serious decline in the construction industry, which is evident in and affects so many areas. There will be less money coming into local authorities from development charges. This means it will be difficult for local authorities to implement local authority programmes. One of the fundamental criteria for the attraction and...

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: That remark deals with the planning system which should show up what is being built if the planning applications being carried through are monitored. Will the Taoiseach inquire from the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources why the MANs system is not in operation, for instance, in my home base of Castlebar? A number of years ago the town was dug up, trenches were dug and...

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: His name is up on the plaque there for the satellite. It worked for a while.

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is outside the church. I was down there on the bike.

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: A Minister was escorted down the middle of it.

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Heading home into the twilight zone.

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: That was oil on troubled waters.

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Was that where the Minister of State, Deputy Dick Roche, was going, to sort that out?

Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: I ask the Taoiseach to send out an APB for the Greens. They have not been in this House since the place resumed. The Minister for patio heaters is going around the country collecting them and I do not know where the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is. I remember back in the good old days, when former Deputy John Bruton was Taoiseach, that he made it perfectly...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: Not if one goes back and listens to what the Ceann Comhairle used to say. When the poor former Deputy Nora Owen was in here, as Minister for Justice, it used to take longer than ten minutes, believe me.

Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is also accurate, a Cheann Comhairle. I ask the Taoiseach to explain the difference between No. 33 and No. 79, the intoxicating liquor Bill and the sale of alcohol Bill, both of which deal with the sale and consumption of alcohol. One is expected to come before the House in late 2008 and I do not know when the other is expected. Is there a difference between these two Bills and when are...