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Seanad: Schools Building Projects (4 Mar 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I thank Senator Buttimer for giving me the opportunity to respond to this matter on the Star of the Sea primary school, Passage West, County Cork. I am responding on behalf of the Minister who is unavoidably absent. Under the national development plan €4.5 billion was assigned to the capital requirements of the primary and post-primary sectors. Approximately €600 million will be spent...

Seanad: Schools Amalgamation (4 Mar 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I thank Senator John Paul Phelan for raising this matter as it provides me with the opportunity to outline to the Seanad the position on second level education infrastructure in New Ross town. I do so on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin. There are five post primary schools in New Ross. Applications for major capital investment from each of the schools,...

Seanad: Schools Amalgamation (4 Mar 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I will do that.

Written Answers — Health Promotion: Health Promotion (28 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: The National Taskforce on Obesity saw the school as a key setting in tackling overweight and obesity in children and recommended that schools be encouraged to develop consistent policies to promote healthy eating and active living. My Department has published "Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Preschools" and "Food and Nutrition guidelines for Primary Schools". Guidelines for post-primary...

Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (27 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 73 and 100 together. Within the health sector, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has been allocated €3 million to commence implementation of those recommendations of the Task Force on Obesity for which it has the lead responsibility. A Working Group has been established and an action plan developed to ensure implementation of these recommendations....

Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (27 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 74 and 106 together. The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to...

Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (27 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 94 and 104 together. A number of national food consumption surveys have been carried out over the last 15 years, which now provide valuable information on what the Irish population is eating. Two of these are commissioned every four years by my Department, these are the National Health and Lifestyle Survey (SLÁN) and Health Behaviour in School Children...

Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (27 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 95 to 99 inclusive, 101 to 103, inclusive, 105, 107 and 108 together. The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive...

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (26 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Seanad: Cancer Screening Programme (21 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I thank Senator Ó Domhnaill for raising this matter and for giving me the opportunity to address the issue and set out the current position on the roll out of the national breast screening programme. I confirm that BreastCheck screening commenced in the western region in May and the southern region in October. In December, the Minister for Health and Children officially opened two new...

Seanad: Rail Network (21 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I thank Senator Pearse Doherty for raising this important issue and giving me the opportunity to respond on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, who is unavoidably absent. He would have liked to be here because this issue is very much a part of his brief. Transport 21, which is the medium-term investment framework for transport, does not provide for the...

Seanad: Rail Network (21 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I appreciate that Senator Doherty is making a political point but, as he stated, this is not a matter of politics. He knows this from his time on Donegal County Council.

Seanad: Rail Network (21 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: The Senator can afford the luxury of being in Opposition, but what he must do——

Seanad: Rail Network (21 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: If the Senator wants to interrupt, I can sit down. We have provided €580 million to the Northern Ireland authorities to assist in the provision of roads in the North. Senator Doherty should ascertain the facts because we are heavily subsidising a dual carriageway from Dublin to Derry-Letterkenny. It is not the commitment solely of his colleague in the North. We live in the real world...

Seanad: Rail Network (21 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I have referred to the recommendations of the strategic rail review. It is a matter for the Minister's consideration.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (21 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I thank the Senator for raising the matter as it affords me the opportunity to respond on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Mary Hanafin. I want to outline to the House the Government's strategy for capital investment in education projects and the position regarding the provision of a new school at Rahan County Cork. Modernising facilities in our 3,200 primary schools...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (21 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I will communicate in that regard with the Minister.

Ambulance Service. (20 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I thank the Deputy for raising the matter. I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children. It is regrettable that the mothers referred to by the Deputy should have suffered undue distress, particularly as the birth of a child should take place in a safe, secure environment. I have been advised that while, thankfully, such...

Hospital Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I thank Deputy Sherlock for giving me the opportunity to reply on behalf of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. I am advised that capital funding of €1.5 million was sanctioned by the Department of Health and Children for the installation and dedicated accommodation of a CT scanner at Mallow General Hospital in October 2004. Following receipt of fire certification and...

Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)

Pat Gallagher: I thank Deputy O'Mahony for raising this matter. I welcome the opportunity to outline to the House the Department of Education and Science's position regarding the provision of new school buildings for Bonniconlon national school, Gaelscoil Uileog De Búrca and St. Joseph's national school, Midfield, Swinford. In the lifetime of the national development plan, almost €4.5 billion will be...