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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (27 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an offer for employees of FÁS to transfer to her Department was made; if so, if it is still on the table; the current situation in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15636/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (27 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the agri environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15635/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (26 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when full payment for the suckler cow welfare scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15162/13]

Other Questions: Hospital Acquired Infections (20 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to tackle MRSA in Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14331/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to tackle in-patient and day case waiting lists in Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14278/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (20 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a penalty of €1,801.68 was put against a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14171/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (20 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a rural environment protection scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13708/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (20 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme payment for 2012 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13742/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (20 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when full payment of the single farm payment for 2012 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13834/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (14 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State when I say the Topical Issues debate becomes a farce if one Minister of State arrives into the Chamber and proceeds to read out four scripts. I received the answer he has just read from the HSE one week ago. I asked a series of questions on the cost of the fire safety works, the identities of the individuals being appointed to the review board...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (14 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Thankfully, I came down earlier than I had expected to, otherwise there could have been another mishap. I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for the opportunity to raise this issue. The situation at Toghermore House, Tuam, County Galway, has been raised as a Topical Issue before. It is a 24-hour mental health facility on the site of other mental health facilities, including a day hospital....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (14 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Couny Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13480/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (14 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the suckler cow welfare scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13481/13]

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to the motion. I support the amendment to it and the intense focus the Government is placing on supporting job creation through the Action Plan for Jobs. While I welcome major job announcements made during the tenure of the Government, including 500 jobs in gaming firms EA and BioWare, it is the Government's focus on exporting firms and the small...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to the motion. I support the amendment to it and the intense focus the Government is placing on supporting job creation through the Action Plan for Jobs. While I welcome major job announcements made during the tenure of the Government, including 500 jobs in gaming firms EA and BioWare, it is the Government's focus on exporting firms and the small...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person [details supplied] in County Galway will receive a decision from the Appeals Office in relation to their claim for jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13376/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she intends to take on foot of recommendations in the report on the disability sector by Watson and Nolan; her plans in terms of getting persons on disability back into the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13208/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person [details supplied] in County Galway will receive a decision from the Appeals Office in relation to their claim for jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13376/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health when a person [details supplied] in County Galway will be assessed by the Health Service Executive West Occupational Health Department in order for a decision to be made on an application to retire on the grounds of permanent infirmity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13375/13]

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Mar 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. In decades past, the idea that Garda vetting had to be carried out before one could take up any position was unthinkable yet it is now a fact of everyday life, and that change in society must be reflected in terms of the way previous convictions are dealt with and the length of the shadow they can cast upon a person's life. Recent...