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Suicide Levels: Motion. (4 May 2005)

Paudge Connolly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: —notes the following matters of grave and urgent concern; —the latest statistics reveal that suicide now accounts for 50% more deaths annually than road accidents — 444 last year as against 293; —suicide is the most common cause of death among 15-24 year-olds in Ireland, and the highest in this age group of all 25 EU states; —the suicide rate in Ireland...

Land Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (4 May 2005)

Paudge Connolly: He is not laughing, just smiling.

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (28 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. The saga of physical, sexual and psychological abuse of children was one of the darkest chapters in human relationships in our long and chequered history. When we talk about abuse we often tend to forget about the psychological aspect of abuse. It can leave many scars. It is important to point out that all child abuse does not and has not...

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the situation of people who work and pay tax and PRSI in the Republic of Ireland, who take leave from their job to care for their seriously and sometimes terminally ill parent resident and receiving care in the Republic of Ireland, who fulfil all the criteria for the carer's benefit with the...

Class Sizes: Motion (Resumed). (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: Teaching is one of the areas in which I receive quite a large number of representations from teachers, parents and schools. It is always focused on class size and accommodation at schools. In many cases, the accommodation leaves much to be desired. It gives me no great pleasure to note that the primary school class size, which is supposed to average at 24.2 pupils, is ranked as the second...

Revenue Investigations. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance if the practices of life insurance companies will be subjected to the same degree of investigation by the Revenue Commissioners as the policyholders who are being targeted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13468/05]

Revenue Investigations. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: Regarding what is referred to as "hot money", does the Minister agree that the life assurance companies should be targeted to a greater degree than the policyholders? Does he agree that the corporate executives who designed the insurance scams should be examined and made to answer to the Revenue? It was an industry-wide product which was not dreamt up by one company. The financial...

Revenue Investigations. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: Does the Minister agree that when reputable companies put a product on sale, the ordinary consumer will think the product is all right? In most cases, a consumer will not think he or she is avoiding tax because his or her agent states that this is how the system works, this is how one invests money and if one wishes, this is how one avoids being caught. It sounds as though these companies...

Revenue Investigations. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: It has been happening for 20 years.

Revenue Investigations. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: The Minister is asking the companies who devised the scam——

Revenue Investigations. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: ——to now sell those individuals back to the tax authorities. The Minister is targeting sitting ducks. He is asking companies who devised the scam——

Revenue Investigations. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: The companies devised the scams.

Revenue Investigations. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: I would like to understand the answer.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: I wish to raise two issues. Given that operations had to be cancelled at Monaghan General Hospital this morning due to bed shortages, when will the Taoiseach open the much needed ten extra beds, as promised?

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: I wish to raise a second issue.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: It relates to the renaming of the treatment room in Monaghan General Hospital as an accident and emergency unit.

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: It is effectively providing accident and emergency services.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: On a point of order, I wish to clarify for the record that we are treating accident and emergency patients in Monaghan Hospital, albeit in a treatment room. Some 11,000 patients are treated annually. This morning we had to cancel operations for want of beds in the hospital.

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (26 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost for 2004 of placing persons with dual diagnosis of intellectual disability and a psychiatric condition in institutions outside the country for services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12906/05]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (26 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost for 2004 of placing persons with dual diagnosis of intellectual disability and a psychiatric condition in unsuitable hospital settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12908/05]