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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 445: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will change the terms governing educational grants to introduce some flexibility in cases where a person has qualified for the grant but is only marginally over the income limit to qualify for a top-up. [42354/06]

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his intentions with regard to the regulation of closed circuit television reported in a newspaper (details supplied) include an intention to conduct an evaluation of all existing CCTV schemes in receipt of public funding against their stated objectives in view of the overwhelming international evidence...

Written Answers — Victims of Crime: Victims of Crime (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether a single Department and Minister should take ultimate responsibility for ensuring that adequate funding is made available to tackle violence against women and to respond to the needs of victims in order to address the currently unacceptable situation whereby responsibility is avoided by...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of members of staff at Kerry General Hospital who have been tested for MRSA. [42087/06]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff in Kerry General Hospital who have been given the results of their tests for MRSA. [42120/06]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff in Kerry General Hospital who have tested positive for MRSA. [42121/06]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if Regtel the independent regulator of the telecommunications sector here was established by legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42108/06]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the action that can be taken by persons or the State against mobile phone operators who are in breach of EU directive on privacy and electronics communications 2003 in relation to unsolicited text messages from commercial companies. [42129/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of people participating in the social and rural scheme nationally; and the number participating in each county. [42106/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way he will address the anomaly by which persons in receipt of invalidity, lone parent and old age benefits can only receive a maximum of €24.40 for 19.5 hours work per week. [42125/06]

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: This Government has been in power for nearly a decade and must be judged at election time, not on this budget alone but also on all its previous failures to eradicate poverty in this State. In a period of unprecedented economic growth, the Government has failed miserably to redistribute the State's wealth to all those who helped generate it and who need it most. I watched in disgust...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: While pensioners reliant on the non-contributory pension get inadequate increases, the better off continue to be able to avail of excessively generous tax breaks for private pensions. Just think what could be done for those pensioners living in poverty if the will existed. The money frittered away on pension tax breaks which disproportionately benefit the wealthy, and amounted to €2.75...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: The increase of €16 which brings the non-contributory pension to €200 merely means the Government complied with its commitment in the national anti-poverty strategy. It would have been surprising and appalling had it not done so. The Government can boast about nothing in this increase. During the next two months any non-contributory pensioner living in local authority housing will...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Fuel costs rose during the past 12 months and the Government provided a miserable €16 more per week. That is the cost of the four pints the Minister of State might drink tonight. The increase is lost in inflation and increases in rent and fuel costs. The Minister of State, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, stated today the Government plays its part in tackling climate change. It was a frightening...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Carbon trading is not the answer to climate change. A recently published analysis of carbon trading, Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power, argues that carbon trading slows the social and technological change needed to cope with global warming by unnecessarily prolonging the world's dependence on oil, coal and gas.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: As many environmental justice organisations point out, carbon trading is nothing more than the proliferation of the free market into environmental policy making. We welcome the belated conversion of the Government to the importance of biofuels, especially when we are so dependent on imported oil and gas. This Government is determined to hand our oil and gas rights over to multinational...

Written Answers — Traffic Management: Traffic Management (6 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has proposals to include new projects to relieve urban congestion in Transport 21. [41677/06]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (6 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that a person in the advanced stages of the AIDS virus was admitted to the psychiatric wing of Kerry General Hospital on 22 November 2006, having previously worked in another hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42070/06]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason Irish Naval and fishery officials were not informed of an apparent arrangement with Spanish and French vessels being granted permission to fish with undersized mesh on the pretext that they were engaging in scientific experiments. [41085/06]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 339: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the person on whose authority permission was given to Spanish and French vessels to gill net in Irish waters with undersized mesh. [41086/06]