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- Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Last weekââ
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding will be maintained for a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25341/09]
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of Overseas Development Aid which is provided annually to the Democratic Republic of Congo; the mechanism of distribution; the projects funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25392/09]
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: To follow Deputy Timmins' point on the Commissioner, the Taoiseach has already indicated there would be hearings between the three main political groupings in the European Parliament in regard to the possible appointment of President Barroso for a second term. It is welcome news that the European Council will press ahead with the appointment, as was suggested in some of the discussions in...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Why not? Not much extra would be involved and it would lend an extra something to the person concerned.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Not at all. That is a terrible reflection on the House.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: I thank Deputy Gilmore for sharing time. The Taoiseach's 30-page Council summary covered a wide range of issues, even though the Lisbon treaty was the main focus. Nevertheless, a great deal of time was spent on economic and banking issues and there was welcome movement and proposals on the direction of financial regulation in the de Larosière report. However, less then one page was devoted...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: NÃl arm ar bith ag an Eoraip ag an uair seo.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Seaside reading.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: He could stay behind and bring NAMA with him.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: He might be advertising Fáilte Ireland.
- Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (23 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost to the State to date arising from participation by the Defence Forces in peacekeeping missions in Chad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24690/09]
- Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (23 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of personnel repatriated from Chad on medical or compassionate grounds since the mission commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24691/09]
- Written Answers — Prison Visiting Committees: Prison Visiting Committees (23 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Kilmainham Gaol visiting committee has not been re-established over the past three years; when he proposes to re-establish the committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/09]
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (23 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the National Children's Hospital has been included in the list of Health Service Executive capital projects which have been stopped; the present stage of development of the National Children's Hospital project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24634/09]
- Written Answers — Drug Addiction: Drug Addiction (23 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the estimated number of addicts here in each of the past five years; the number who are in receipt of treatment for their addiction in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24996/09]
- Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (23 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will have the person's remains exhumed to seek to determine the cause of death. [24994/09]
- Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (23 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 308: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) whereby relatives were charged for an environmentally friendly service to dispose of coffin handles prior to cremation and that no such service was supplied in many instances; if he will request An Garda SÃochána to investigate the allegations; and if he...
- Written Answers — Prisoner Transfers: Prisoner Transfers (23 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 323: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he will take to have a person (details supplied) transferred to another prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24658/09]
- Inquiry into Child Abuse. (18 Jun 2009)
Joe Costello: I ask that the Department of Education and Science open a book of condolence in that Department for the victims of child abuse. I am putting this request on the record because it was made to me by quite a number of victims of child abuse recently. Virtually all the children in the reformatories, industrial schools and Marlborough House, which the Department of Education was directly...