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Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (20 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the money raised on the sale of properties at the IFI plant in Arklow, County Wicklow, will be used to pay creditors who are still owed substantial amounts of money by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29921/05]

Decentralisation Programme. (20 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress he has made towards decentralisation; the sections of his Department which have been decentralised; the sections which remain to be decentralised; the cost of decentralisation to date; the cost of decentralisation when complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29749/05]

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: On the same issue, I ask that some means be found to put answers from the HSE on public record. We have seen a stripping away of accountability that has serious implications for the management of the health service.

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (19 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals for changing the minimum legal tyre tread depth of 1.6mm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29062/05]

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

Liz McManus: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Transport the outstanding issues that need to be resolved in the ten year strategic transport plan; and when he will finalise the project. [29061/05]

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (19 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of complaints received regarding child abuse in the years 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29590/05]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the discussions, advice or information she has had on the establishment of private hospitals in the grounds of public hospitals in the past 12 months; the number of occasions on which she and her advisers had these meetings; the person with whom she has had these discussions in each case; and if she will make a statement...

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: It is approximately two and a half years since the pharmacy review group presented its report to Government yet we have seen no sign of legislation in regard to pharmacies. Two Bills are promised. When will they be published? Will they be published together or separately?

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: For the Taoiseach to say the Bills are listed for next year does not tell us much. Does he mean early next year or late next year? Will it be three or four years before we get the legislation flowing from this report?

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: What is the Taoiseach saying?

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the review of the ambulance command and control centre in central Dublin that called for the establishment of a joint ambulance control in Dublin, to be staffed by the Dublin Fire Brigade and Health Service Executive staff; if her attention has further been drawn to the findings of the...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to establish responsibility for the huge waste of public money involved with the PPARS and FISP computer system; if she is satisfied with the level of supervision exercised by her Department over the project; the measures she will take to ensure that taxpayers get better value for the money spent...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a patient was sent from Dublin to Limerick by taxi at a rate of €600 for minor eye surgery under the national treatment purchase fund while other patients have been denied access to treatment by private hospitals due to the fact that the hospitals had been informed that the national treatment purchase fund has...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I thank the Tánaiste for her reply, but it is not very satisfactory. It was reported that a patient requiring minor eye surgery was transported by taxi from Dublin to Limerick at a cost of €600. That report was made on 7 October, but now the Tánaiste says it is not true. I am surprised, if it was not true, that it was not immediately rebutted. Will the Tánaiste accept there are question...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Is the Minister aware there have been a number of cases where patients were approached by the NTPF, but when they were directed towards a hospital they were denied care? One was a constituent of mine. Is the Minister also aware of a case relating to a person from Dunboyne in County Meath? When the family phoned the hospital, it replied that it had received a written directive from the NTPF...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Does the Tánaiste accept that I have a written reply from the HSE stating there was a change with regard to medical card and means testing for terminally ill patients? I have this in writing and will send it to her. Since I made that statement public, I have received quite a number of letters and phone calls from terminally ill patients or their families stating that they are being means...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: ——and nothing the Tánaiste can say will go against the experiences of terminally ill patients who are being means tested for medical cards-——

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: ——on which the Tánaiste persists in misleading the House and the public.

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The Tánaiste should tell that to the HSE.

MRSA Incidence. (18 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the figures in respect of the number of cases of MRSA in each of the past three years and to date in 2005; the number of fatalities attributable to MRSA; the steps which are being taken to reduce the incidence of MRSA; if her attention has been drawn to the view expressed by top management in the main teaching hospitals in...