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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide revenue funding and staff to open phase two of the adult respite service in Newtownforbes, County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29878/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide funding to allow the high support community residence at Marian Avenue, Ballymahon, County Longford for persons with intellectual disability to open and operate on a full time basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29879/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 258: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide funding to enable the creation of more residential places in north County Longford for persons with an intellectual disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29880/07]

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (20 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 563: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will appoint a boundary commission to review the electoral area boundaries for the next local authority election due in 2009; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29874/07]

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (20 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 528: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the unexplained anomalies in voting patterns in the general election in May 2007, he will utilise the information gained from the recent census to produce an electoral register, the validity of which he can vouch for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29285/07]

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (20 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 560: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the contract will be signed in respect of the purchase by his Department of turbary from a person (details supplied) in County Longford; when money will be paid to the vendor in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29871/07]

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (20 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 561: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding provision of an upgrade sewerage scheme for Legan, County Longford where raw sewerage is flowing into a tributary of the Inny River that provides domestic water to south Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29872/07]

Written Answers — Fire Stations: Fire Stations (20 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 562: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress on the provision of a new fire station at Edgeworthstown on the N4 in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29873/07]

Renewable Energy Projects. (15 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: I welcome the opportunity to raise this issue and am glad the Minister is in the House to reply. This is an important energy saving and environmentally sustainable process that requires a coherent policy: the development of slurry-generated electricity. The use of organic materials such as farm slurry could generate enough electricity to power one in every three homes at peak periods. By...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (15 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance namely, the crisis in cancer care throughout the country which has been highlighted by an international study by the OECD published this week which shows that Ireland has one of the highest breast cancer death rates in the developed world and a 6% higher rate of deaths from prostate cancer...

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: With Ireland third from the bottom of 30 countries in the OECD for average download speeds and €4 billion required for a new State-wide fibre optic network, what legislation, if any, is pending to update Ireland's communications system?

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Question 88: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to counteract the plans to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Irish Heritage Trust and the Heritage Council in budget 2008. [28492/07]

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: I support this motion and thank my colleague, Deputy Shatter, for raising this important issue. Whether the Minister hears it or not, the public has spoken. As a director and board member of the Legan Childcare Committee, I have my finger on the pulse of public opinion. The concerted outcry against the proposed new subvention scheme for funding community child care is deafening, and only...

Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Do not speak of him too often.

Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: It is because of all the U-turns.

Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: I welcome the Minister. I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak on this important matter. Nearly every transport project due to be competed before 2010 under the Government's €34 billion Transport 21 plan is already delayed or late, depending on which spin is put on it by the Minister. It is emphatically predicted to miss its due date. We have evidence of that on several...

Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: There may be a crony there.

Local Authority Auditing. (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Local government is an essential element in any democratic state. It is the machinery by which important services are provided. Everyday when we get up and go outside our doors, we see the services put in place by local authorities, such as public lighting, road infrastructure, water services, sewerage systems etc.

Local Authority Auditing. (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: Each local authority has a local government auditor, director of financial services, a budget committee, finance committees etc. and each committee needs a secretariat. Are the new committees necessary? As additional staff are required to man the secretariats, will the embargo on local government staffing be lifted to accommodate their staffing requirements? The public wants a better...

Local Authority Auditing. (14 Nov 2007)

James Bannon: All council members on the finance or budget committees are accountable to their electorates. They have done a good job to a large extent and one would not accuse elected members of wasting funding. They have a hands on approach to how their counties or cities should be developed. How often does the Minister expect the new audit committees to meet?