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Written Answers — Third Level Institutions: Third Level Institutions (14 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received the revised draft strategic plan and related budget from the Grangegorman Development Agency which will provide for the relocation of the Dublin Institute of Technology from more than 30 different locations and sites in the Dublin area to a new integrated urban campus at Grangegorman, Dublin 7, catering for 27,000...

Written Answers — Further Education: Further Education (14 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 29 April 2009, if the application process for post leaving certificate courses in the 2009-10 academic year has concluded; if so, the way the 1,500 places allocated to post leaving certificate providers in the 7 April 2009 budget are to be offered to the public; the way the extra places...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (14 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of funding provided, in each of the past five years, for the air ambulance service operating out of Bantry General Hospital in County Cork; if there are plans to further develop this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19489/09]

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (14 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has provided funding for the development of Baltimore Harbour in County Cork; the level of funding provided; when he expects work to commence on this development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19490/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (14 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the need for a permanent school building in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19455/09]

Written Answers — Banking Sector: Banking Sector (13 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the suggestion the bank rescue plans here could be the highest, as a proportion of national income, of any developed economy; his further views on the fact that the final cost of bailing out the banks could be more than €20 billion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18974/09]

Written Answers — Insurance Industry: Insurance Industry (13 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on declines in the solvency situation of insurance companies based here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18975/09]

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: The Government's policies of the past 12 years brought us to the economic and banking crisis of last September, which is much worse than is being experienced in other countries. Alternative approaches were available during that 12-year period, many of which were voiced by the Labour Party. For example, in regard to the property bubble, as far back as 1999 the Labour Party was proposing an...

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (12 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the exclusion of persons on low incomes from the home energy saving scheme; the reason there is a minimum requirement that the grant amount in the first application must be €500 or greater; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this excludes those who only require a cavity wall...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (12 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the anomaly where workers in a hospital (details supplied) who will not get a public service pension are paying the pension levy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18535/09]

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (12 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide further clarification on the early childhood and education scheme; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some providers operate for 41 weeks of the year and require extra fees in order to pay for new equipment and so on; if it is the case that they are limited to charging €240 a month for 38 weeks of...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (12 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people affected by tuberculosis here; the level of care available; the way the figure compares with previous years; the measures in place to prevent further infections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18529/09]

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (7 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 38: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take in respect of the findings of the Environmental Protection Agency report Climate Change in Ireland - Refining the Impacts for Ireland and the need to plan for climate changes that are already occurring and will be clearly evident within 40 years, and its suggestion that we need to plan...

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (7 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 45: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the national strategy for adaptation to climate change will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18098/09]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (7 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken, in view of the blacklisting of ten Health Service Executive regions by the Russian federal authorities and the consequent suspension by Russia of processing applications for adoption by persons who have had home studies prepared by these HSE regions, to ensure that the HSE regions named comply with all...

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (7 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the legal status of the letter of commitments issued by the Health Service Executive to prospective parents intending to adopt from Russia in view of the blacklisting of ten HSE regions by the Russian federal authorities and the consequent suspension by Russia of processing applications for adoption by persons who have had home studies...

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (7 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason, in view of the blacklisting of ten Health Service Executive regions by the Russian federal authorities and the consequent suspension by Russia of processing applications for adoption by persons who have had home studies prepared by these HSE regions, of the providers of home studies here only an organisation (details...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (7 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be reached in respect of a medical card application for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason for the delay in dealing with this application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18374/09]

Water Quality. (7 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: The main progress which has been made with drinking water is that it is now being monitored very substantially by the EPA and we have had reports for the past couple of years. The progress made on the issue has been very slow. There were 339 supplies on the risk list last year with 83 being removed and 62 added. Almost a third of our water supplies are still considered risky by the EPA,...

Water Quality. (7 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: To return to water charges, I understand the Minister stated to a group of architects or people of a related profession that water charges are inevitable. Why is it inevitable that we will have water charges for household water users?