Results 31,541-31,560 of 32,583 for speaker:Richard Bruton

Written Answers — Physical Education Facilities: Physical Education Facilities (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 585: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the impending decision to close the sports complex at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 before December 2005; if financial support will be made available to the school to ensure that its sports complex remains financially viable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31859/05]

Freedom of Information. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: I note that prior to the date when the fees were introduced, the rate of requests to the Taoiseach's Department was running at 17 per month and, since that date, the rate has dropped to four per month. Less than a quarter of the earlier number of requests is being made. Were those other 13 requests per month frivolous? Did the Taoiseach's Secretary General advise that there were many...

Freedom of Information. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: What is the Taoiseach's policy on the €75 review fee? In how many instances has the decision gone the whole way, where the person has had to go to the Information Commissioner to appeal his Department's decisions? In such cases, €230, which is non-refundable, becomes the total cost of the request. Is that a frequent occurrence in the Taoiseach's Department?

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: I am not sure whether it is three, four or five years since the Planning and Development (Strategic National Infrastructure) Bill was initiated as a high priority Bill. As we come to the end of the national development plan, we have not seen the Bill and most likely will not see it before the national development plan expires. In the context of the new transport plan, is this Bill regarded as...

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: The Bill is half way back.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: Bring back Senator O'Rourke. She did the work on this ages ago.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: The terms of reference made provision for the publication of an interim report not later than three months from the date of establishment of the tribunal. Was such a report presented to the House? Has the Taoiseach asked for any subsequent reports that would give some indication of the tribunal's thinking, bearing in mind that some of the issues, apart from the investigative side, concern...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: Was a first interim report presented?

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: A transport plan was launched yesterday after what we were told was 11 months of planning. I have a slim volume of it here. It consists of four speeches, three maps, two lists and one repackaged transport plan designed to get the Government's neck off the line.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: The plan will cost €34.4 billion. Maps were produced that were virtually identical to those produced previously. A total of 35 of the 40 projects were announced previously. Every householder will be asked to pay €25,000 through taxes or road tolls but they were not given any detailed costings, evaluations of the key items or prioritisation of projects based on the rates of return. Why is...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: The Ceann Comhairle is generous.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: The Taoiseach's answer is an elaborate sham. We know the National Roads Authority published what it projected various projects would cost time and again. That did not result in commercial folly. It resulted in finding that many of those projects ran massively over cost and embarrassed the Government. The Government is not willing to commit itself to any costing. The Taoiseach has not done due...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: Let us be honest. The national development plan was published in 2000. It was to cost €8 billion. Twelve months before the end of that plan, we see that half of the projects will not be completed on time and the cost will be three times what was originally stated. The public is asking how can it have more confidence in this plan than in the previous one, when the Government and the...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Richard Bruton: Deputy McGinley mentioned decentralisation. We now find that less than 5% of the jobs to be moved through decentralisation will be moved within the schedule of the three year plan. The Taoiseach described it as an issue of essential political commitment on which Ministers would be judged. On all of these issues the Taoiseach looks for a card to get him out of jail. Like many of the great...

Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (27 Oct 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to introduce a payment targeted at children living in poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30834/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Oct 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has considered or will consider index-linking child benefit payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30835/05]

Written Answers — Sheltered Accommodation: Sheltered Accommodation (27 Oct 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the refund of charges unlawfully deducted applies to sheltered accommodation for persons with disabilities, psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric sheltered accommodation in the community; the precise basis for deciding the cases in which refunds are due; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31179/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has carried out a cost benefit analysis of the proposal to build private hospitals in the grounds of public hospitals. [31274/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will seek a full market price for lands made available for the construction of private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals. [31302/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has carried out an estimate of the impact on the public elective throughput, the accident and emergency throughput, and the financial resources of public hospitals of closing off access to private patients to public hospitals on campuses where private hospitals are developed. [31303/05]