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Written Answers — Compensation Payments: Compensation Payments (19 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she is proposing in order to compensate women damaged by a person (details supplied), the vast majority of whose cases are now statute barred. [25674/04]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (19 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 505: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the purchase of a site (details supplied) in County Dublin for a new primary school to serve the extended Sandyford parish has been completed; and if so, when construction will commence. [25056/04]

Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (19 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 530: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Question No. 450 of 27 April 2004, his plans to implement the recommendations of the McIver report; and when this process will commence. [25278/04]

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: It is only 500 beds.

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Report Stage of the Railway Safety Bill is scheduled for tomorrow, one and a half years after Committee Stage was taken. Yesterday, Deputies received 50 pages of technical amendments from the Minister for Transport. Will the Taoiseach arrange for the Bill to be returned to Committee Stage as it is a now effectively a new Bill? It is unacceptable that the Minister should bring——

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: It is a matter for the Taoiseach to ensure the orderly arrangement of business. It is unacceptable that what is effectively a new Bill is introduced in such a manner.

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her intentions in respect of the future use of the lands on which the Central Mental Hospital is located in Dundrum. [24143/04]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her building plans for an urgently required new central mental hospital; if it is her intention to provide the new facility on the existing site; and if the land in Dundrum is under control of her Department or the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. [24144/04]

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the submission from the Dublin Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign on the mid-term review of the national drugs strategy that the structures that were put in place to deliver a community-led, partnership approach have been undermined and that, as a result, the role of local communities have been diminished....

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the next rural development forum will take place; the agenda for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22683/04]

Written Answers — National Cancer Strategy: National Cancer Strategy (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a decision has been made on the locations of the planned two centre Dublin based radiotherapy service. [23258/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 366: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if information on consultants' waiting lists for each consultant in each specialty is made available to general practitioners on a countrywide basis; and, if so, the frequency with which such information is updated. [23259/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 367: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if information is available or being collected on numbers awaiting initial consultant appointments following general practitioner referral or on the length of such waiting times. [23260/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 368: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if information on the numbers awaiting procedures, either treatments or investigations other than surgical procedures, is available or being collected by the national treatment purchase fund; if so, if such figures will be made available in order that a meaningful comparison can be made with figures published in May 2004 which referred...

Written Answers — Speed Limits: Speed Limits (5 Oct 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 395: To ask the Minister for Transport if the metrification process of speed limit signs will commence on 1 January 2005; if he will outline the new speed limits which will apply and the circumstances in which a lower than 30 mph maximum speed limit can be enforced. [23268/04]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if consideration will be given to the lottery application by the Charleville Sheltered Housing Services for essential equipment for their new central care unit. [18171/04]

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome the publication of the Bill and wish it had come sooner. In the months since the court case in January I have become increasingly anxious as traffic conditions have deteriorated and the prospect of two cul-de-sac motorways appeared a distinct possibility. I realise there is more to the legislation than the Carrickmines issue. I realise also that if one does not live in the area...

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Exactly. This Bill gives An Bord Pleanála the power to sanction variations to approved works and where it does not so sanction, a decision can be made on the need for a new environmental impact statement rather than waiting for the courts to adjudicate on the matter. Let me make it absolutely clear that Fine Gael insists that our national monuments be preserved. We have no future if we do...

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: The county council, notwithstanding the fact that it did not accept that the discovery at Carrickmines was a national monument, applied for permission to interfere with it, because that was the only way the stalemate could be broken. The Minister gave his consent but that was appealed to the courts and it was subsequently lost on a technicality — nothing to do with the merits of the case. A...

National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Jun 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: One becomes slightly suspicious when that happens. I would not say that the archaeological heritage is less precious than other heritage but they manage to build roads without this happening. My concern is that the Minister will make no decisions, because the legislation states that he may at his discretion make a direction as to how to proceed. The timeframe is too open-ended. The Minister...