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Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 573: To ask the Minister for Health the way he can ignore the weight of public opinion here that does not consider the Mater Hospital site, Dublin, to be suitable as the location for the national children's hospital as evidenced by the overwhelming opposition in two polls (details supplied) on the subject. [34140/11]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 574: To ask the Minister for Health the way he can defend the fact that the independent review of the national children's hospital project carried out earlier this year did not include a full review of the decision to locate the hospital at the Mater Hospital site, Dublin. [34141/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 599: To ask the Minister for Health the valuation the Health Service Executive put on the primary health care centre in Buncrana, County Donegal, currently for sale on the open market; and the investment of the HSE and previously the North Western Health Board in the location from site acquisition up to the present day. [34344/11]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 633: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that there is to be 972 car parking spaces allocated to the proposed national paediatric hospital at the Mater site in Dublin, whether he expects this to be enough to accommodate approximately 6,000 persons, including staff, patients and visitors, who will use the hospital every day; and if he will bear in mind that parents...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 634: To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken to accommodate those persons attending the proposed national paediatric hospital at the Mater site, Dublin, especially with tertiary level children, who cannot find a parking space; and whether they will be obliged to take the chance of being clamped, as is the case at present. [34714/11]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 635: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the views of the European Association for Children in Hospital Charter, whether parents should not need to incur additional costs or suffer loss of income while their child is in hospital; how he will ensure that parking costs will not be an issue for parents whose children are in hospital at the proposed national paediatric hospital at...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Two issues arise, the first of which the Israeli labelling after the 2000 agreement between the EU and Israel, and the deal in recent years where products from the Palestinian territories are labelled as from West Bank to allow the Palestinian territories to develop economic activities. In the middle, produce from illegal settlements that are against various UN resolutions and which Ireland...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They will be in the supplementary contribution.

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is the Government satisfied there is no settlement produce being circulated in the Irish economy? Is the Government considering a ban on produce from these illegal settlements, in order to be absolutely clear on the matter?

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The report I have seen from the organisation Defence for Children International makes for harrowing reading. It includes pictures of children who were shot and injured by the Israeli defence forces in the region. I thank the Tánaiste's officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and in the Irish Embassy to Israel for their assistance in recent days in dealing with the 14 Irish...

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am taking the opportunity to discuss the situation in Gaza and the fact that 1 million people are in an open-air prison. There is no doubt that there are fundamental issues-----

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What is the international community doing? What can Ireland do?

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Ceann Comhairle will appreciate that it is difficult to summarise the profound issues involved in a couple of minutes.

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will wrap up on this point. Does the Tánaiste accept that the reason 14 Irish human rights activists considered it necessary to undertake the mission was the international community had failed to address the issues involved?

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not easy.

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I did not want to say it.

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a detailed report before me about the ongoing grave situation in what would be considered Tamil areas in the north and east of Sri Lanka from which I will read a particular sentence. I could read the whole report but the Ceann Comhairle would not allow me do that.

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The question will follow from this. It states that families must-----

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Okay. When families in that area are receiving guests they must inform the army who the guests are and that is the case for any family event. The intrusion and the sense of humiliation and subjugation goes down even to the right to associate within one's community and have a social event in one's home. What is the United Nations doing allowing these types of situations to continue when...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications he has made with the Israeli authorities to protect the safety of Irish citizens and human rights activists aboard the [i]MV Saoirse[/i]; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33723/11]