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Written Answers — Prison Medical Service: Prison Medical Service (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisons that have had outbreaks of TB in the past year; if his attention has been drawn to the steps that the Irish Prison Service and the Health Service Executive have taken to contain such outbreaks; the number of prisoners that had contracted TB; the cause of each outbreak, if identified; the further steps he will take in...

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 473: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive hearing aid specialists cannot repair bone anchor hearing devices, which would save the HSE money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20734/11]

Written Answers — Drugs Task Force: Drugs Task Force (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 515: To ask the Minister for Health when the Local Drugs Task Force interim funded projects in the Blanchardstown, South Inner City, Ballyfermot and Canals LDTFs will receive their 2011 funding. [21271/11]

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is speculation arising from what the Minister said.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is the Taoiseach aware of the non-adjacent grant rate for students? It will mean a cut of over €3,500-----

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not playing tricks.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is because-----

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If you let me finish the sentence, I will ask about two pieces of legislation.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It means a cut of over €3,500 in the grant paid to many students. Has the Minister any intention of introducing a change to the Student Support Act passed earlier this year which this change might contravene?

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If it is in contravention of the Act and the courts find that it is, a change to the legislation will have to be introduced. Second, will the Minister use the Education (Amendment) Bill promised for publication later this year to reverse this cut on top of the 4.5% cut in student grants?

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is amendment No. 2.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will try to be brief given that people want to deal with a number of other amendments. Two substantive amendments in the name of Deputy Stanley deal with a range of issues. One, close to my heart, is to reverse the change that happened in the supplementary register system in 2002. I have no problem with a system that would ensure everybody on the register of electors had to produce a...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Quote away.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom an Dáil a chur ar athló chun déileáil leis an gné rí-thábhachtach seo ar gá plé práinneach a déanamh ar sa Dáil, is é sin, the urgent need for the Government to reverse its plans to cut the fuel allowance and household benefits package especially considering that the cuts coincide with sharp electricity and gas price hikes and considering the impact of these cuts,...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A guillotine is being imposed again. This was a habit of the previous Government. In the last week of the Dáil there was always a rush of legislation and guillotines were imposed. At that stage I argued continuously, along with the Whips who are now the Government Whips, that in most cases there was no need to impose a guillotine. Now we have a changed circumstance whereby the Government...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Government did not put up the speakers.

Written Answers — Civil Service Recruitment: Civil Service Recruitment (14 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason, despite the completion of the progress report on the Croke Park agreement which found that the total reduction in the number of public servants during the 12 months under review was 5,349, [i]publicjobs.ie[/i] has in recent months embarked on a recruitment drive for temporary clerical officers across the State...

Written Answers — Third Level Courses: Third Level Courses (14 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will assure the public that places on the springboard scheme in university are additional to previously existing college places and are not displacing places previously available to students who have completed their leaving certificate in the past; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20530/11]

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed. I will not delay the House any longer than required but again the proposal is that this legislation be guillotined but as I said previously, most legislation that is guillotined ends its progress naturally without reaching the guillotine. I ask again that the guillotine be lifted in this instance and that it be allowed to proceed. A guillotine should not be put on any...

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed. These Revised Estimates relate to last year's budget and, in fairness, most of them have been dealt with by the relevant committees. However, at a recent meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education, we had a discussion on the relevant Revised Estimates at which we asked the Minister whether there would be any changes to the household...