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Written Answers — Transport Investment Plan: Transport Investment Plan (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has completed feasibility studies for the estimated cost of the ten year national strategic transport plan; if his Department's findings exceed the previously proposed budget of €20 billion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26551/05]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is practically impossible for a person in a wheelchair to have access to a wheelchair accessible taxi; the way in which this reflects on the commitment given by the Government in 2001 at the point of deregulation of the taxi fleet that from 2003 a process would start whereby all taxis would...

Quarterly National Household Survey: Statements (Resumed). (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: What other Green Party Deputies are here?

Quarterly National Household Survey: Statements (Resumed). (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: I value the opportunity to contribute to this debate. It is obvious the Government has allowed this debate to give it an opportunity to talk up its own performance by using figures that reflect well on its policies. In doing so, the Government has opened up the risk of straying into the territory of statistics, damned statistics and lies. The use of statistics as a cold instrument only tells...

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Does the Government intend to introduce amending legislation in respect of the Environmental Protection Agency? Such legislation is necessary, given that dioxin levels in Cork Harbour have more than doubled in the last year, that the agency cannot assess water quality in Ennis and that the agency, in issuing waste licences, is a judge in its own court.

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: I am asking whether the Government intends to amend the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992.

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: They have doubled in Cork Harbour.

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister is having trouble with figures.

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: The dioxin levels have doubled.

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (18 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to deal with the possible flu pandemic; if she has satisfied herself that Ireland has sufficient stocks of anti-viral drugs at present; the details of current stocks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28957/05]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (18 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress of the implementation of a ten point plan to deal with the accident and emergency crisis; her views on the assessment of Professor Brendan Drumm that the difficulties will exist for another two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28962/05]

Written Answers — Health services: Health services (18 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the reason methadone treatment is not available in many areas of the country; and the plans there are to expand this service. [28969/05]

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Indeed. I expect we will see even more on Report Stage. When we look at the highlights as presented in the original briefing note we can, perhaps, understand why the Minister wanted to introduce a different or sexier Bill. The original highlights are on the dry side. The Bill calls for a statutory power to preserve a crime scene. It is surprising that is not already a statutory power. It is...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (18 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: I seek an adjournment of the House under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent public importance, that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform come before the House to explain the circumstances whereby a Nigerian national, Ms Olivia Agbon Lahor, mother of twin children one of whom is severely autistic, was detained on foot of being deported from this country, the factors...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: When this Bill was published earlier in the year, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform produced a briefing note to the office of the Government Chief Whip, which was subsequently transmitted to the party Whips of all groupings in the House. That note listed the main features of this Bill and highlighted eight bullet points with regard to what the Bill is about. Half way through...

Written Answers — Legal Proceedings: Legal Proceedings (13 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if legal actions have been taken against the State by patients who have contracted MRSA; and if so, the damages which were awarded to patients who had contracted MRSA. [28433/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (13 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the names of relatives of deceased residents who receive repayments for illegal nursing home charges are automatically passed on to the Revenue Commissioners for scrutiny to see if any tax liability arises. [28434/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (13 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the total cost to the health service for clean-up operations undertaken to bring MRSA infections under control in hospitals nationwide in 2004. [28435/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (13 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay until the middle of 2006 in the stocking of packs of anti-viral drugs. [28436/05]

Written Answers — Recreation Policy: Recreation Policy (13 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Government's national recreation policy currently under development by her Department will be launched. [28438/05]