Results 661-680 of 1,319 for speaker:Paudge Connolly

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I wish to seek the adjournment of Dáil Éireann under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent public and national concern, namely, the 80% cost increase to €183 million in the past two years of renting accommodation and office space for State Departments and agencies; the concentration of over 90% of the State rent spent in the Dublin area, with an uneven distribution...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Second Stage. (21 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I propose to share time with Deputies Boyle and Crowe. This Bill, which provides for a number of changes in social welfare arising out of the budget, arrived in my office yesterday morning. It should have been circulated a number of weeks ago, which would have given Deputies a reasonable amount of time to digest its contents and the implications for social welfare and those receiving social...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Second Stage. (21 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: On the BTEA and the BTWEA, the changes which bring the qualifying period for both allowances back to two years is to be welcomed. This has had the effect of undoing some of the drastic cuts that were made in 2002, even though I would regard the revised limit as a halfway house towards the provisional limit of one year and 15 months, respectively. Many unemployed people will be enabled to...

Farm Waste Management. (16 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her proposals to address the threat posed to pig and poultry farming and mushroom production by the maximum nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser limits of the nitrates directive; the predicament of County Monaghan pig and poultry farmers and mushroom producers in terms of having to dispose of surpluses of over 100,000 tonnes of poultry...

Farm Waste Management. (16 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I too congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Wallace. We will soon have plenty of agricultural expertise outside north Dublin. I regret that I did not hear the remainder of the Minister's reply because I hoped it would deal in more depth with the issues of chicken litter and mushroom compost. I am sure that she is aware of the disagreements between the IFA and Teagasc and that the former...

Farm Waste Management. (16 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I have a brief question to pose.

Farm Waste Management. (16 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I would have thought——

Farm Waste Management. (16 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Can I ask a very brief question? There was no reference to the mushroom industry and——

Farm Waste Management. (16 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: There are ten new centrifuge technologies but how many of them will be located in the middle of the intensive farming industry?

Farm Waste Management. (16 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: No, I was not.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (16 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the findings of a study into depression among post-primary students in the north east region of Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath, which recorded the highest incidence nationally, at 20%, of significant levels of depression among post-primary students; the fact that the most likely to...

Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The private rented sector is the fastest growing component of Ireland's housing system. In 1991, 7% of houses were rented, which equated to about one in 12 or one in 14 houses. By 1995 that figure had grown to 16%, which equates to one in six houses. We obviously have a growing difficulty. People on low incomes who cannot afford to buy their houses account for that growth in the rented...

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: In view of the recent report,A Vision for Change, which proposes the sale of 15 psychiatric hospitals and given the difficulty encountered in acquiring greenfield sites under the decentralisation programme, should we not examine other potential uses for these hospitals? For example, St. Ita's in Portrane, could be suitable for housing the Central Mental Hospital currently located in Dundrum.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: This is an important issue on which I wish to question the Taoiseach.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: One would expect the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to be involved in this area too, given it also relates to the Central Mental Hospital.

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that 75% of one-off houses outside Dublin and one third of rural housing schemes are not in compliance with accessibility requirements for people with disabilities under part M of the building regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4950/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person, details supplied, has completed their aspect of the independent external inquiry into the death of a person at Monaghan General Hospital on 14 October 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5018/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person, details supplied, has completed and presented their report into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person at Monaghan General Hospital on 14 October 2005 to her and the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5019/06]

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by the Health Service Executive and its predecessor health boards on leased or rented premises here in each year since 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5199/06]

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (14 Feb 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 290: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of premises rented or leased here by the Health Service Executive in its various regions; the costs of renting or leasing each of the premises; the person to whom these amounts were payable; the type of contract entered into in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5200/06]