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Written Answers — Radon Gas Levels: Radon Gas Levels (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 124: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the RPII's anti-radon programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22229/05]

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 392: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the basis on which he re-appointed a person (details supplied) to the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22651/05]

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 393: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he gave an undertaking to six representatives of the greyhound industry at a meeting in December 2004 that a person (details supplied) would not be re-appointed to the Irish Greyhound Board; the reason this person was subsequently appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22652/05]

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 394: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, when reappointing a person (details supplied) to the Irish Greyhound Board, his attention has been drawn to the very critical comments made regarding the person in a judgment delivered in the High Court in 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22653/05]

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 395: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has received representations from a number of organisations within the greyhound sector expressing concern at the appointment of a person (details supplied) to the Irish Greyhound Board; if he has responded to these representations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22654/05]

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 396: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he intends to make any changes to the membership of the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22655/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 414: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors that have been appointed to date in regard to his announcement of the recruitment of an additional 11; when the full number will be appointed; the current establishment level of the labour inspectorate; the number currently serving as labour inspectors; if any of the labour inspectorate...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 610: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider asking the Garda to reopen its investigation into the fatal fire at a hotel (details supplied) in County Donegal on 8 August 1980; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22560/05]

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 611: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received a request from a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for access to his Department's files on the circumstances of a fatal fire in County Donegal in 1980; if, in view of the exceptional circumstances of this case, he will consider granting access to these files; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 612: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider using the powers available to him, under section 1 of the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1998, to have the Attorney General consult with Mr. Justice Morris with a view to seeking his consent for an amendment to the terms of reference so that the Morris tribunal be requested to...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 681: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 is losing one and a half teachers under the general allocation system; her views on whether this is a serious and unacceptable decrease in resources for a school designated as disadvantaged; the steps she will take to have these positions...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 682: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools which are designated as disadvantaged; the number of schools which have staffing concessions; the number of schools which are losing posts under the revised system of allocation to schools with special education needs; the location of these schools; her proposals, in view of this, to support such schools to...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I share that sentiment. The disability movement——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——which is extremely distressed that, after the collapse of the first Disability Bill under the previous Government, this one is——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I also oppose the moving of this Bill.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: When is it proposed to bring the Abbotstown Campus Development Authority Bill before the House? I remind the Taoiseach of his commitment that the work permits Bill would be through the House this session, but it has not even been published. Obviously, it will not be moved in this session so will the Taoiseach indicate when it will be published?

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We are giving the House notice.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree that the state of the aquatic centre is a metaphor for the state of the Government? He has just admitted that the centre and the Government are his own creations; that both are defective and incapable of performing the job they were set up to do. Their foundations are cracked and both are leaking like a sieve. They are swallowing up and wasting taxpayer's money and...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: We know the history of this case now no thanks to the Taoiseach or the Ministers, Deputies McDowell and O'Donoghue. They all gave us conflicting, partial, half answers. It is no thanks to the Minister, Deputy McDowell, that whoever leaked it to whomsoever leaked it, in turn, to The Irish Times that we now know the sequence of events. It now seems the Taoiseach as well as the Minister, Deputy...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and his pat on the head for the Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue. He wanted to tell the House that the Minister was blameless——