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Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1507: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1252/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1508: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1253/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1509: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1254/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1510: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1255/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1511: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1256/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1512: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1257/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1513: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1258/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1514: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1259/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1515: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1260/07]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1516: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which have 30 or more children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1261/07]

Written Answers — Physical Education Facilities: Physical Education Facilities (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1533: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made by her in progressing the construction of a sports hall for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if her attention has been drawn to the large number of pupils at this school and of the pressing needs for additional accommodation to facilitate sports facilities for male and female students in the...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1671: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the measures she has taken to ensure that schools adhere to best practice guidelines for children with special needs, in particular, the measures she has taken to enforce the provisions of the 2004 Act; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2258/07]

Written Answers — Housing Management Companies: Housing Management Companies (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 1824: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the ODCE Consultation Paper and Draft Guidance on the Governance of Apartment Owners Management Companies published by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement on 12 December 2006; his views on the Consultation Paper of the Law Reform Commission on Multi Unit Developments and...

National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: I am glad the Minister is in the House because I wish to begin with an important question which I hope the Minister will be willing to answer. Some time ago the NDFA advised us that it was getting involved in the acquisition of 36 new linear accelerator facilities for the treatment of cancer through a PPP. As a member of the Committee of Public Accounts, I saw press releases and reports...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Patients must wait a year to get an X-ray.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: Why are public hospitals so dirty?

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: I was interested in the comments of Deputy Carey, whose constituency borders mine, on the selection of the Mater Hospital site for the new national children's hospital. It is ironic that the Government was able to spend tens of millions of euro on hundreds of acres of prime farmland at Thornton Hall for a new prison but could not acquire a site for a maternity or children's hospital....

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: We do not want an inspectorate that will be bogged down in paperwork, with social workers afraid to do anything apart from filling in forms while they phone their lawyers about how their positions should be protected, rather than the children, the elderly or disabled people they are supposed to be looking after. We know what works and what does not. It will be challenging for the Minister...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: There is actually, in Blanchardstown, and we need a new maternity hospital.

Written Answers — EU Surveys: EU Surveys (14 Dec 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the accuracy of recent figures produced by the Central Statistics Office showing 7% of the population currently in consistent poverty and 18.5% at risk of poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43117/06]