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Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the HSE does not collate complaints of bullying and harassment of HSE staff but does so in relation to service users; the way the matter of harassment and bullying of staff is dealt with in the HSE if there is no collation of information and as such no register of such complaints, actions taken, results of actions; and the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 300: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to the HSE to provide home care packages for the Kildare/west Wicklow areas for the year 2007; if this funding has been totally allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34065/07]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the comparison and difference in cost values of the National Treatment Purchase Fund in relation to costs, time scale of hospital visits, waiting times for consultations, surgery and so on as compared to normal HSE procedures in relation to such costs, time scales and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34066/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 302: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 452 of 26 September, 2007 was confined to Longford-Westmeath when the question was in relation to the training of home helps within the HSE; if the stated area is the only area where home helps are receiving training; if so, the reason for same; if not, the record within the rest of...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 303: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for their operation or if they are entitled to seek such an operation under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34072/07]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 328: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason home helps in the Kildare west Wicklow area have to wait until 2008 for the payment of their travel allowance payments and arrears; if the matter will be addressed by the use of the Health Service Executive computer system analysing and processing the claims to ensure payment before Christmas 2007; the reason there is a...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Transport when the taxi regulator will provide funding for the provision of taxi ranks throughout the country; if his Department will provide extra funding through a grant scheme to underpin such funding; the amount of funding available to the regulator; if this funding is to be determined on a [i]pro rata[/i] basis in relation to the areas and the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 550: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has only been sanctioned for a reduced supplementary welfare allowance payment in view of the circumstances of the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34137/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 602: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the breakdown of the funding provided by his Department to the islands within the remit of the local authority of Donegal County Council of a capital funding of €35,167.25 and a current expenditure of €287,947.05 for the year 2007; and ifhe will make a statement on the matter. [34393/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 603: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the funding provided by his Department to the islands within the remit of the local authority of Mayo County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34420/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 604: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the funding provided by his Department to the islands within the remit of the local authority of Galway County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34421/07]

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (11 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 648: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of disputes that are on the records of her Department that involve staff members of her Department or agencies as set up by her Department; the number of disputes that have being transferred from her Department to an agency set up by her Department; when such an agency was set up; if such transfer of...

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (6 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received and reviewed a book (details supplied); his view on the finding of the report that the failure of the Government to re-establish a dedicated Department of the Marine is in opposition to stated EU maritime policy and that the failure to reconvene a dedicated Marine Department will adversely effect marine development; if the...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (6 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will make a decision on the proposal by the Office of the Taxi Commissioner for the introduction of a subsidy scheme to assist with the purchase of wheelchair accessible taxis and hackneys; his views on the recent request by the National Taxi Drivers Union for a 50 cent extra surcharge on taxi fares to compensate drivers for spiralling...

Written Answers — : (6 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the premiums paid to home help personnel in the Kildare-west Wicklow areas for weekend periods; if this payment is in line with the guidelines as laid down by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to working hours and the appropriate rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33021/07]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (6 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the discrepancy between the statement issued in Dáil Éireann on 29 November 2007 and the letter received from the Health Service Executive on 21 November 2007 (details supplied); if she will clarify the position of the provision of occupational therapists in the Kildare/west Wicklow areas of the HSE; and if...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on correspondence (details supplied); the funding allocated by her Department or the Health Service Executive to the group over each of the past five years; the plans she or the HSE has to increase the funding and to provide a staffing grant to the society; the mechanisms available to the society to obtain such grants; and...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: The Minister has lost the battle with regard to obtaining funding for local government. In a very unimaginative way, he has tackled family income. I am not sure whether he knows the following information but Deputy White should as she comes from roughly the same area as myself.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Data recently released suggests 150,000 people leave home at 6.30 a.m. each morning. Of those, 130,000 travel more than 50 miles. This is an attack on the income of those who need a car for employment.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)

Jack Wall: Deputy Ó Caoláin rightly stated that in practically all cases the family needs two cars because if one family member must travel 50 miles to work, there is a need for a second car to, for example, bring children to school from rural areas, such as the area Deputy White represents, although she shows no respect for that area. The Minister caved in because the only thing he wants is to hold...