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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason the 2003 suckler cow grant has not been awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13974/04]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway did not receive the remaining part of their suckler cow grant 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13975/04]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a REP scheme 2 grant has not been awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13976/04]

Written Answers — Bus Stops: Bus Stops (4 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has satisfied himself with the procedure for the location of bus stops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11024/04]

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (4 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the development of the metro; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11029/04]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (4 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will reduce the severity of the three-year rule for participation in community employment schemes; if her Department and the FÁS authorities are aware of the effect the present three-year rule has and will have on community employment schemes, particularly in rural based schemes; if her attention has...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the penalties which will apply as a result of a decision by his Department to penalise a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the bovine schemes for 2003; the level of penalty which will apply to the suckler cow grant 2003 and other livestock grants applied for; if such a penalty will apply to this person for their ewe...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (4 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasons demands made by the Ballinasloe advocates concerning the availability of disability services in the Ballinasloe area have not been met; the reason a high support activation centre has not been built in Ballinasloe as a follow on from the TOPE scheme; the further reason the Western Health Board has informed this group that...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (4 May 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the regional neurosurgery unit in the west; the reason it has taken so long for a decision to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12502/04]

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The doctors are as bad as the lawyers.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister would know all about that.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Why?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I wish to share my time with Deputy Crawford, by agreement.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: There has been much debate on the Bill. To refer to the contribution of my constituency colleague, Deputy Grealish, what if the referendum was not to take place on 11 June? Fine Gael accepts there is a problem, although the Minister did not seem to think it a significant one until very recently. However, there would not be the slightest problem if the referendum was to take place on its own...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I did and, what is more, I read it. The Minister is not the only one who can read. He might be a senior counsel but--——

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: It is this type of glib performance which makes the Minister so arrogant. He is not the only one with a monopoly on intelligence.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister had his chance to speak and should listen. One of his problems is that he does not listen. The Taoiseach said there was not to be a referendum on 11 June, which is on the record. What has happened in the meantime so that, as a matter of great urgency, it is necessary to hold the referendum on 11 June? I thought the Minister would come to the House today with dramatic figures to...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: It is reasonable to assume that an increasing number of babies would be born to people who are in this country correctly. While Fine Gael fully accepts there is a problem and has no difficulty with section 2, I cannot understand why the Government has created division for no reason other than the desire to hold the referendum on 11 June. I am long enough in the House to know there must be a...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: However, the four masters afterwards said they did not in any way ask the Minister to do that. It was obvious they were asking for extra investment and greater facilities. The Minister was not able to distance himself from this and buried his head in the sand.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Paul Connaughton Snr: If that is the case, the Minister should tell the House that the masters of the maternity hospitals were wrong.