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Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Last year, the Taoiseach announced the new national paediatric hospital would be located in St. James's Hospital. The remit of the old national paediatric hospital development board ran out on 5 December and new legislation is due, which would give effect to the plans. When is the Bill due?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase and improve facilities for taxis particularly in built up areas like Dublin city centre, in view of the current shortage of ranks which is not simply a result of oversupply. [8584/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24. [8887/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the eligibility criteria for attic house insulation has been changed. [8710/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who were due to have their attics insulated were told they were no longer eligible due to new legislation brought in stating that attics with sloping ceilings cannot be insulated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8711/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Force deployments, involving personnel, there were to Cyprus, Lebanon, Kosovo and Bosnia since 1 January 2000; and of those deployments, the number of personnel of Private and NCO ranks involved, after eliminating double counting for those who served on more than one tour. [8885/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Force deployments involving personnel, there were to Eritrea, East Timor, Liberia and Chad since 1 January 2000; and of those deployments, the number of personnel of Private and NCO ranks were involved, after eliminating double counting for those who served on more than one tour. [8886/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was revoked in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [8908/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (19 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health the limits for savings and the formula used to assess it against the qualifying criteria for an over 70s medical card. [8909/13]

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In some places it is even more than that, but 44% is the average. That shows the scale of the problem.

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Nobody denies that. If the Government invests in plugging those leaks, money will be saved in the long run. It is preferable to investing in meters. Meters are a distraction; it is moving public resources in the wrong direction. I urge the Minister not to proceed with metering but instead to divert that money immediately into major projects to ensure that in the future we will have a...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What is being proposed today is a travesty. I say this because there is nothing in the Bill to suggest the Government will reduce income tax, a proportion of the revenue from which goes to local authorities to fund the very utility for which the Minister is to double the charge. There is nothing in the Bill to state the taxpayers' money being set aside from the National Pensions Reserve...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is true. It is the intention of the Government to flog as many as possible of the semi-State companies that have made a profit for the State for many years. The same logic applies to sub-companies. It may not be espoused by the Minister of State today but it is the policy, and it is in line with a trend that has obtained since the Progressive Democrats were in power. They jumped into...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (14 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the criteria for allocations to acute hospitals for 2013, including the reason for major reductions to St. James' Hospital, Crumlin Children's Hospital and Temple Street Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7473/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health the extent of refusal or inability to take up or continue staff release for training occasioned by the current shortage of frontline personnel across our hospital network and in community based services; his views that staff release for training is essential if our health services are to develop and if we are going to upskill staff who will be obliged to fill...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the overall budget for Reception and Integration Agency, including a breakdown of the cost of inspections, transfers and staffing; if the weekly allowance received by asylum seekers is part of this budget, and if not, from which budget does it come; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7817/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services (13 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has fully considered the report of the National Director for Children and Family Services on the aftercare provision; if she will provide the opposition spokespersons with a copy of the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7314/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (12 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will calculate the savings in 2013 arising from the earlier closing of the visiting teacher service for Travellers and the system of resource teachers for Travellers. [7412/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (12 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation in 2012 and subsequent outturn, with the allocation in 2013 of funding from the 123 compensatory and alleviation posts under the former scheme for resource teachers for Travellers. [7415/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (12 Feb 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided, for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, with the subsequent outturn, under the heading of extra teaching hours at second level for Travellers and the allocation for 2013. [7417/13]