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Written Answers — Health Board Services: Health Board Services (1 Jun 2004)

Liz McManus: Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a one-year waiting period for speech and language therapy for children in Bray, County Wicklow, and a four-year waiting period in Wicklow; and if the recruitment embargo will be lifted to ensure proper staffing to meet the need. [16489/04]

Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: Our spokesperson on the environment, Deputy Gilmore, has suffered a family bereavement and as a consequence is not in the House. In the past ten years, the property market in this country has been elevated almost to the level of a national obsession. Newspapers print bulky supplements packed with property advertising. Economists who pronounce on future trends in house prices are guaranteed...

Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: Needless to say it would be very useful if some signs of the famous 10,000 affordable houses promised under Sustaining Progress were even started before the programme expires. These are concrete steps the Government can and should take if it cared about first time buyers forced off the market, or the long hours spent commuting to work, or the stresses of working hours away from one's home, or...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: We are very short on time. I will not refer to the position in Monaghan because there are others who can do so. The Minister of State is perpetuating double-think. On the one hand, he has said the Bill is about bringing the health boards to an end — on which we are all agreed — and that the amendments go against the principle of the Bill. On the other, he continues to restate the publicly...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: The Minister of State conveniently tries to separate the Prospectus report from the Brennan report, which argued for health board representation for local public representatives, and the Hanly report, even though the Government has always argued that the three are linked and part of an integrated set of health reform proposals. He cannot have it both ways. However, I compliment him — he...

Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: I move: That Dáil Éireann, considering that the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government has, during a period of unprecedented economic prosperity, failed to stabilise house prices and failed to provide for the housing needs of the people, calls for: —the implementation of the report of the All-Party Committee on the Constitution in relation to building land, with a view to making...

Order of Business. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: I am conscious that time is very limited, but I ask that this matter not be guillotined. This legislation is disturbingly retrogressive. It eliminates all public scrutiny and accountability from the activities of health boards and has not been properly debated in this House. On Committee Stage, amendments were found not to be in order by a chairman who was clearly not fully informed regarding...

Order of Business. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: Will the Taoiseach undertake to lift the guillotine so we can pursue this matter in a way that is appropriate to parliamentary structures?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Motion to Recommit. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 128(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business, directs that the Health (Amendment) Bill 2004 in whole be recommitted to a committee of the whole House. I propose that the Bill be recommitted because what has happened here is grossly unsatisfactory. Important democratic accountability is being withdrawn in legislation without...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Motion to Recommit. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: I accept that.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Motion to Recommit. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: I accept that but it is a good example of how decisions will be made after 11 June, which we will not be able either to know about or comment on as they will be done in secret. The Minister does not even bother to come to the House. I urge the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to recognise the problems we have on this side of the House which reflect those in the wider community.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: "(3) Notwithstanding subsection (4), insofar as this Act provides for the removal of elected representatives from membership of health boards, area health boards, or the Eastern Regional Health Authority, this Act shall not come into force until meaningful new arrangements to ensure democratic accountability...

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: What does that mean?

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2004)

Liz McManus: There must be an election coming up.

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (18 May 2004)

Liz McManus: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he intends to introduce regulations adding to the list of institutions included under the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14366/04]

Written Answers — Substance Misuse: Substance Misuse (18 May 2004)

Liz McManus: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to address increasing instances in schools of teachers encountering students under the influence of alcohol or drugs; if his attention has been drawn to the recent ASTI survey on general disciplinary problems in schools here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14365/04]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (18 May 2004)

Liz McManus: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the provision he is making to meet the considerable need for a special needs teacher at Avoca national school, County Wicklow; and the timeframe in which a teacher will be provided. [14212/04]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (18 May 2004)

Liz McManus: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when he expects the building of the accident and emergency extension to Letterkenny General Hospital will go to tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14573/04]

Order of Business. (18 May 2004)

Liz McManus: A number of major health Bills have been postponed or delayed by Government. Will the Government meet its deadline on the introduction before the summer recess of the health and social care (professionals) Bill?

Written Answers — Organisation of Working Time Act: Organisation of Working Time Act (13 May 2004)

Liz McManus: Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has satisfied herself with the level of implementation of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13821/04]