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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of home help hours provided to older persons for years 2003, 2004, 2005 by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27143/05]

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General: Motion (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I thank all those who contributed to this debate over the past two nights. In particular, I thank our spokesperson, Deputy Burton, and the Fine Gael Party for co-sponsoring the motion. It has been an important and valuable debate. Indeed, it is regrettable that the annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General is not debated as a matter of course in the House each year. I know that the...

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General: Motion (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Instead, it appears that this money has been allowed to disappear into a financial black hole or, more accurately, into the bank accounts of the Government's favourite consultants. When a story like the PPARS fiasco emerges taxpayers expect three actions. They expect the Taoiseach, as head of Government, to acknowledge that a problem exists and that errors have been made, they expect that...

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: What about the estimates——

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the accident and emergency and acute services in Ennis General Hospital will be continued or discontinued; if all hospitals that were to lose their accident and emergency and acute services under the Hanly report proposals are no longer to be subject to downgrading; if the Hanly report will be withdrawn; and if she...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 562: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in view of the change of special area of conservation status in relation to a contentious site where planning permission is being sought for a waste management facility in Whitestown, County Wicklow, the practice used to evaluate the scientific considerations for this change; if he has satisfied himself that...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The Taoiseach suggested the technology is not to blame. I accept there is probably nothing wrong with the PPARS technology. The problem is with the implementation of the technology, which is the Taoiseach's responsibility. No matter how much he wriggles and tries to avoid and evade his responsibility, it is his responsibility. He and the Government are responsible for gross incompetence and...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: At local level, people are making decisions about the lives of others yet they are not accountable to anybody in any democratic sense. That is the record of the Minister for Health and Children appointed by the Taoiseach. Old folks in nursing homes, waiting for the money which was robbed from them, are told they will have to wait until next year, despite previously being told they would get...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: That was a pretty lacklustre statement of confidence in the Minister for Health and Children. The Taoiseach has still not dealt with the issues with regard to the record of the past 12 months. The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste could have issued 30,000 full medical cards six to nine months ago. Once they made that announcement and allocated the funding, members of the public could have had...

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: It was promised to introduce a Bill establishing the health information and quality authority alongside the legislation establishing the Health Service Executive, which was taken last December. However, the Bill never materialised. This legislation was to include an inspectorate of nursing homes. This, along with the repayments Bill to pay elderly people their money, is now listed under the...

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Have they?

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: That is the very word —"drift".

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Returning to the Taoiseach's first statement on the totality of IRA weaponry having been decommissioned, will he deal with recent reports in the media that the IRA may have been permitted to keep several hundred weapons for its own use? Has he an assurance from the British Government or General de Chastelain that no side deal has been done in this regard? In the period between now and the...

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: To be blunt, they know the name of the person who committed this crime and that he is a member of the IRA. Is that not the case?

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: So the Taoiseach will not deal with that.

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I know that. They are alleging that they know the person and the Taoiseach has spoken to them.

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: Will the Taoiseach raise this issue as a priority with Sinn Féin?

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: The parties feel that way.

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Liz McManus: I would just like to ask a brief supplementary question.