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Written Answers — Property Management: Property Management (4 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 84: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he intends to take to regulate property management agents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16590/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a hospital bed for their home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16770/06]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not receive the full amount of single payment scheme for 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16769/06]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (4 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of Ireland's long emigration history and the positive treatment of its migrants by the US and other States, he will grant, on humanitarian grounds, leave to stay to the group of approximately 200 so-called aged-out minors, under-aged asylum-seekers who arrived in this State unaccompanied by adults and who have...

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare was refused a grant under the housing aid for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16497/06]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 452: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 746 of 25 April 2006, when a decision will be made regarding a visa application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16398/06]

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Transport the guarantees or undertaking he will give to employees of Aer Lingus at Shannon Airport post-privatisation, in view of the fact that Aer Lingus has not signed an agreement with Shannon Airport for the retention of transatlantic services post-open skies and has failed to develop new routes to the US or Europe from Shannon; and if he will make a...

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: The Minister's reply is very short and lacks detail. How will the pension shortfall of €120 million be made up in the event of the privatisation of Aer Lingus and how much does the Government propose to invest in the pensions? I ask this question in the context of Shannon Airport because I represent that area and I am very concerned about developments in it, particularly the gradual erosion...

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Aer Lingus only operates two direct flights to the US. In his reply to an earlier question, the Minister stated that Aer Lingus hopes to increase its flights to the US but that these flights would only operate from Dublin Airport. He did not mention Shannon Airport. Aer Lingus operates one flight to Boston four days a week and one flight to Heathrow Airport. These are the only direct services...

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Through Dublin Airport.

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: These flights travel via Dublin Airport.

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Where?

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: These flights travel via Dublin Airport. I wish to give the Minister the facts before he attends a lunch tomorrow hosted by Shannon and District Chamber of Commerce.

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: US carriers are getting tremendous business out of Shannon Airport yet our State airline is neglected at the airport.

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: I am sorry, but I want answers from the Minister.

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: We do not have the aeroplanes.

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: The Minister is living in cuckoo land. US carriers are increasing their services out of Shannon Airport yet our State airline is not. What will happen when Aer Lingus is privatised? It flies in the face of Government policy by centralising everything in Dublin. It is not operating in the interests of balanced regional development and the Minister is standing by it. In an open skies scenario,...

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: The Minister knows there is only one direct flight from Shannon Airport to the US, that is, to Boston.

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: We are not sending out a negative image. Why has Aer Lingus not appointed a manager at Shannon?

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Crews are disappearing.