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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 640: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry. [36135/11]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 641: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry [36136/11]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 642: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry. [36137/11]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 653: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the over 70 medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [36217/11]

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the initiatives, policies and or steps he has taken or will take to tackle the unemployment crisis in County Kerry which currently boasts a worrying unemployment rate of approximately 20%; the action he will take to address the loss of jobs due to the phased closure of a company (details supplied) in Castleisland; the...

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: In the past few years County Kerry has become a commercial and industrial wasteland. That is the honest reality; we have lost numerous companies in the last ten to 20 years. In my motion I mentioned Pretty Polly which at its peak employed 1,100 people. There were 1,000 jobs lost in Burlington in Tralee and another 500 in Denny.

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: I am trying to give an insight to what is happening in the county. Liebig in Killorglin has closed, while Aetna Company has been the subject of a phased closure in recent months. I urge the Minister to redouble his efforts to find a suitable employer for that facility. Castleisland has been seriously neglected. Moral is at a low level because of these job losses. The company indicated to...

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: I thank the Minister and the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for facilitating a meeting with Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland in recent months. We hope the rewards will be reaped and that a substantial number of jobs will be provided in the pharmaceutical centre proposed for Tralee. The Pretty Polly site is an ideal location. Pretty Polly employed up to 1,100 people at one...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (16 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the agri-environmental options scheme payment will be forwarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [35168/11]

Mental Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: I will illustrate the situation at a local level in my constituency of Kerry South which mirrors the national situation. There is a continuing exodus of nursing staff from Kerry mental health services which has resulted in the loss of over 50 nursing posts over the past three years. There are a further 30 retirements expected before the end of February 2012. This will leave the service...

Written Answers — National Broadband Scheme: National Broadband Scheme (15 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the take up by subscribers to the national broadband scheme in view of the fact that the anticipated number countrywide was 126000; the anticipated number of subscribers for County Kerry; the number that have joined to date in 2011; the percentage of the country that is now provided with adequate coverage; and...

Written Answers — Capital Projects: Capital Projects (15 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 636: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the capital funding for the replacement facilities necessary to complete the closure of St Finan's Hospital, Killarney, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34716/11]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (10 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate the Collawa river, Rathmore, County Kerry, a tributary of the River Blackwater, as it is subject to intermittent flooding affecting adjacent landowners on its banks and households on the Railway Road; and if he will make emergency funding available to dredge the section of river from the Bridge Bar to...

Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: I refer to legislation pertaining to the nitrates directive. There is a crisis in rural Ireland at present whereby people in the farming sector are totally prohibited from spreading slurry, which is full to capacity in their farmyards. This is an emergency that I have drawn to the attention of the Ministers in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as well as to the office of...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 554: To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for all procedures or treatments in Kerry General Hospital; and the measures he proposes to address same. [33278/11]

Written Answers — Farm Management: Farm Management (3 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 103: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will extend the 31 October deadline for the spreading of farm slurry, due to the continuation of extremely high rainfall, which prohibited slurry disposal on land from mid-October in many areas and especially in the south west. [32633/11]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (2 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social Protection to allow a theatre company (details supplied) in County Kerry to retain an allocation of €373 surplus, full-time equivalent at the end of 2011, due to the reduction of PRSI rate to 4.25 from July 2011. [31837/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [32336/11]

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Tom Fleming: This is more serious than furniture.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)

Tom Fleming: The ongoing debate regarding arrears in mortgage repayments, personal loans and utility bills is often trivialised by some commentators who prefer to link the problem to that of over-borrowing. People who use this simple but incomplete argument are not being thorough in their examination of the scale of the problems facing families today. A number of reports published by the European Union...