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Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: I again ask the Minister to be clear on what he seeks. He should indicate to Members what he intends to do with the greyhound industry. I refer to his remarks to the effect that he considers microchipping to be better than tattooing. Were the greyhound industry to be taken out of this, as the Minister has stated it will be, he would not have a view on the greyhound industry. Consequently,...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: The Minister is trying to cod Members.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Hear, hear.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: I fully support the amendment. It is a fundamental one which would remove the greyhound industry from the provisions of the Bill. The Minister has said he would remove the greyhound industry to give comfort to Fianna Fáil backbenchers who have put pressure on him. That is what he has been telling them. We are giving the Minister an opportunity to take their concerns and those of the...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: What the Minister is saying is crazy.

Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 and particularly about comments made in this Chamber and in committee. The Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, intends that people who are in receipt of social welfare payments will be made eligible for work helping their communities, whether that involves building walls, painting, weeding or other activities....

Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Has he put the scheme together?

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (7 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Defence when it is expected that his Department will move to its new offices in Newbridge, County Kildare; if its current offices in Parkgate, Dublin, will be vacated, the location at which it is intended to accommodate those sections of Defence Forces headquarters that are not relocating to Newbridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29917/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the development of life saving isolation rooms for cystic fibrosis patients and services at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29431/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the time frame for the development of the additional isolation rooms for cystic fibrosis patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29432/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (6 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 17 February 2010, when a response will issue from the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29355/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the operation of the speech and language therapy services in County Clare including the numbers of therapists; the number of persons who are on the waiting list; the length of time that a new client will have to wait before receiving therapy; the typical service delivered to clients; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to the Health Service Executive West for County Clare in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 for the purposes of providing speech therapy; the number of clients that accessed the services in the various years as mentioned above broken down into the different age categories; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to allocate additional funding to restore the essential respite services provided by an organisation (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29433/10]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (6 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a commitment that Unit 3, St. Joseph's Hospital, Ennis, County Clare, which provides vital elderly long-stay public nursing beds will remain open; her long term plans for each unit in the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29445/10]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Question 684: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will rule out further increases in school transport charges in the next budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30130/10]

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: I propose to share time with Deputy Breen.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: I listened carefully to the contribution by the Minister, Deputy Gormley. This issue has been debated extensively outside the House in recent weeks. The Bill was introduced in the Seanad where it was discussed for months, yet it is to be railroaded through the Lower House in less than one day. We can only take what the Minister has said in good faith. We heard from him today that the...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: I just found out today that she is in pup to a sire called Headbound.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Jul 2010)

Joe Carey: Five or six of us own that bitch between us and she has won races both on the track and in the field, in Liscannor and in the Duffer Stakes. She has produced very good pups, one of which won two rounds of the Produce Stakes, which is a classic, and was trained by an excellent trainer, Gerry Holian. I come from a tradition in Clarecastle where we won two coursing derbies with Murty's Gang...