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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to prepare for Ireland's presidency of the Council of the European Union. [42808/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the administrative arrangements that have been put in place within his Department to prepare for Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the Presidency of the European Union [42809/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth. [44198/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a transport provider operating the school transport scheme on behalf of his Department requires any specialist training in dealing with any incidents which may arise when transporting school children, in particular school children with special needs. [44199/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current procedures set out by his Department with regard to school transport scheme service providers for reporting an incident which arises; the protocol that exists for the withdrawal of the services to a particular child who was eligible for the scheme; if the parents are notified; if the school is notified; the alternative transports that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to any incidents whereby parents are being forced to transport children with special educational needs, as a result of the school transport scheme provider withdrawing its services. [44201/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if cuts of legacy posts for DEIS schools which were postponed following a public outcry in the aftermath of Budget 2012 will continue to be protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44697/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concessionary legacy posts for DEIS Band 2 Urban schools will be protected into 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44698/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding his decision in February 2012 to retain 235 of the planned 428 cuts to DEIS legacy posts; if these posts be reviewed again in the context of Budget 2012; or if the posts continue to be protected. [44699/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Review (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to his televised address to the nation on 4 December 2011 when he said this week's budget will go further, 50 quangos will be abolished or merged, and the public sector will be downsized by 23,000 persons by 2015, if he will set out in tabular form the names of the quangos that have since been abolished or merged and the date on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost over run for the health services will be in 2012. [44113/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance Provision (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health when the White Paper on Financing Universal Health Insurance will be published. [44114/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to provide free general practitioner care for claimants under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44115/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he is in talks with the Irish Medical Organisation and the Competition Authority in relation to the issue of free general practitioner care; when such talks are likely to begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44116/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €35 million announced in the budget for mental health services that has been spent on mental health services; if he will provide a breakdown of the way in which this money has been spent; the number of staff promised to be employed under this scheme that are now in place [44117/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if the Special Delivery Unit request for a fund to provide intermediate options for older people to allow them to receive care in their own homes was put in place; the amount of this fund that was put in place; the new initiatives the SDU have brought forward on the basis of this fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44118/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of adult patients waiting for six months or longer for a procedure and the comparable figure for when he took office. [44119/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Administration (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in attempting to reduce the health services pay bill for medicines; the amount of the planned €124 million savings in this area will actually be realised. [44120/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in his plans to charge health insurers for the cost of beds they use in public hospitals ; the amount of the planned €143 million in savings will actually be realised in 2012. [44121/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Remuneration (16 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health in view of his recent claims that 70% of his Department's budget goes on pay, if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of how much of his Departments Budget does goes on pay and if he will provide percentage figures for same. [44122/12]