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Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (25 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 157: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the current national climate change strategy review will be complete; when the results and conclusion of the review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30372/05]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (25 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 153: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take to remedy the situation whereby the capital funding limits for housing associations are based on out-of-date building prices, making it difficult for the housing associations to prepare costing; if he will adjust or increase the limits in the near future; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (25 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the person with responsibility for a regulatory and inspection function in a home (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30301/05]

Health Services: Motion. (25 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: The comprehensive Labour Party motion deals with the record of the current Minister over the past 12 months. The amendment to the motion tabled by the Government is a direct contradiction of everything the motion proposes. That contradiction is about deluding itself because no member of the public believes we have a first world health service. No one believes it because anyone who has had...

Health Services: Motion. (25 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: And nothing will be done about it.

Health Services: Motion. (25 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: It is on a ventilator.

Health Services: Motion. (25 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: They are counting the chairs and the trolleys.

Health Services: Motion. (25 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: He was blinded by the flash of the cameras.

Written Answers — Prison Education Service: Prison Education Service (20 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent report by the inspector of prisons that the training unit at Mountjoy should not be moved to the new Thornton Hall site in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29761/05]

Garda Operations. (20 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the period of time in which Operation Anvil has been in existence; the cost to date; the number of overtime hours worked by gardaí; if he proposes to extend the programme and if so, for what period and on what terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29760/05]

Written Answers — Transport Investment Plan: Transport Investment Plan (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Transport, in the context of the ten year plan for transport, the traffic modelling work he has commissioned to review the impact on traffic volumes of not proceeding with infrastructure developments promised under A Platform for Change and which were built into the environmental impact statements of already committed or part completed projects such as...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals to introduce a compulsory training scheme for motorbike users. [29067/05]

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: I support the amendment. With maternity benefit, I know more mothers are giving false dates of delivery in order to have access to the entire period of maternity leave after the birth of a child, as opposed to being obliged to take two weeks of it before the child is born. This is a dangerous practice. Nevertheless, with the pressures of work, it happens regularly. This tells us that the...

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: We have probably had this discussion three times on this legislation. I do not understand the Minister of State wedding himself to the maternity leave legislation. My understanding of that legislation is that it is single gender legislation. In an age when men, quite rightly, insist on having greater involvement with their children while they are young, I am surprised that the Minister of...

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: I do not expect that.

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 16: In page 5, lines 23 to 28, to delete all words from and including "of---" in line 23 down to and including "weeks" in line 28 and substitute "of 8 weeks". This amendment tidies matters up and makes much the same point as that made by Deputy English. The Act recognises that there is a possibility, albeit an unfortunate one——

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: I understand. However, there is recognition within the Act that it is possible that the adopting mother could die and there is no way of extending the adoptive leave to the father. Question, "That the words and figures proposed to be deleted stand.", put and declared carried.

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 22: In page 7, to delete lines 49 and 50. This amendment relates to an adoptive parent who becomes ill while on leave. On return, such parents are no longer entitled to take the remainder of the adoptive leave due to them. This arises as a result of a lack of understanding, albeit not on the Minister of State's part, and I am surprised to find it in the Bill. If a mother...

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: So am I.

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)

Kathleen Lynch: I have studied the debate on the Bill and a continuous trend runs through it at all times. The fact that a recommendation was made by the group which advised the Minister of State on the Bill does not necessarily make it right. No one is infallible. We are not the holders of all knowledge, which is what debating is all about. It is surely people's experience when they debate a matter. One...