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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the budget provided for medical equipment replacement such as x-rays, cat scan machines, MRI scanners, ultra sound machines is satisfactory and if he has carried out an audit of what need to be replaced across the State. [17361/12]

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I was going to raise the same issue as Deputy Boyd Barrett. I am happy enough with the Minister's reply.

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about Deputy Shatter's friends in Israel?

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (28 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he supports the inclusion of sport within the Erasmus for All programme. [16561/12]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (28 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the fact that no destinations serviced by Bus Éireann in counties Derry, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Antrim, Armagh and Down are listed on the Bus Éireann website. [16854/12]

Written Answers — General Practitioner Services: General Practitioner Services (27 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the development of out-of-hours general practitioner services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16277/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the under-funding of Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16276/12]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (27 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the suppression of four teaching posts in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in the past year; if he will review the staffing situation of the school and retain at the very least their concessionary post. [16504/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (27 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autistic children and children with special needs for Inishowen, County Donegal, that are forced to travel to Letterkenny, to avail of post primary education; and his plans to address this situation. [16532/12]

Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to support local childcare committees to bring professionals such as speech and occupational therapists into preschool services; if she will resource childcare committees to do this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15119/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of funding required to operate the 116000 missing children hotline; the level of funding that the State has allocated for this purpose; if the State has made an application for funding under the EU Daphne Programme for this and the level of funding applied for; the date on which they will receive an answer on this...

Written Answers — EU Programmes: EU Programmes (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, in line with the commitments contained in the Good Friday Agreement and the identified and proven need for continued supports for political ex-prisoners, and given their inclusion as a specific target group in previous rounds of funding, his views that any PEACE IV will continue to recognise political ex-prisoners...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a certificate of trade competence could be practically fast tracked and made affordable for persons who have worked in one of the construction related trades such as carpentry, painting and decorating, tiling, plastering, brick laying and so on, for many years but who have not attained any papers to demonstrate their...

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I always enjoy listening to speeches of the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes. I read his article in the Sunday Independent recently where he wrote of the reds under the bed of Sinn Féin, the threat to the State and all the madness with which he goes on about Sinn Féin. It has been his track record for many years, but at this stage he really would need to cop himself on as regards...

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I note the Chair did not ask the Minister of State to address his comments through the Chair.

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fine. I will address the Chair. I say to the Minister of State that long may his type of politics continue because what he does is to inspire working class people, people who do not come from privilege, to work harder against right wing policies. What I am shocked about, given I am now addressing the Chair, is how the Labour Party could support these types of policies-----

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----how the Labour Party, almost in isolation in all of Europe on the progressive left, could possibly be party to this type of-----

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is lovely. I take your point. I will make my point. How can the Labour Party possibly stand over a right-wing coup? How can it stand over a situation where the right wing in Europe is rewarded and encouraged for the catastrophic failure of its approach? How can a party that follows in the footsteps of Connolly and Larkin enthusiastically sell this treaty to the Irish people? How...

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: However, I cannot understand how the Labour Party can possibly stand over this betrayal of everything it has ever stood for by colluding with this right-wing coup.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Whatever the answer to the question is-----