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- Order of Business (5 Jul 2007)
Seymour Crawford: It will arise very shortly.
- Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (4 Jul 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 785 of 26 June 2007, the present situation regarding the building of offices in Cavan town; when they will be ready; the number of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19173/07]
- Written Answers — Rapid Response Initiative: Rapid Response Initiative (3 Jul 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position with regard to the operation of the voluntary humanitarian corps by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18730/07]
- Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (28 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine his views on the possibility of changing the regulations regarding heavy goods vehicles and buses travelling on motorways where there are only two laneways such as the M1 in order that they could pass where the situation was clearly safe rather than dangerous convoys of slow moving vehicles at the speed of the slowest vehicle at...
- Written Answers — Health Repayment Scheme: Health Repayment Scheme (28 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in her Department in allowing for the repayments under the nursing home repayment scheme; her views on the fact that these repayments have been promised for a long period and are being held up through some technicality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18278/07]
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (28 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 246: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of the 20 year contracts for operational and maintenance that have been signed up between the contractors who built the new filtration systems for group water schemes through the bundle system; the name of the contractors and the schemes that have signed; the steps being taken to sign up the...
- Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: I wish to share time with Deputy Deenihan. I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his appointment. I wish him well and I hope he will have a clear view of our opportunities to contribute and so on. I also congratulate Deputy Billy Kelleher on his appointment as Minister of State at the Department of Transport and the Marine. I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. As...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (28 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the way in which the Minister for Health and Children and the Health Service Executive can claim that â¬531 is the average cost of a bed in a nursing home in counties Cavan and Monaghan when the cheapest bed is more like â¬665, meaning that old age pensioners have to pay more than...
- Order of Business (28 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: A person is imprisoned in Mountjoy because they could not pay a fine imposed for failing to pay a television licence fee. In light of that fact, when will the attachment of fines Bill be brought before the House so such a fine can be attached to a social welfare payment or income? Some time ago a Bill regarding the promotion and advertising of alcohol among young people was withdrawn so as...
- Order of Business (28 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: It is a waste of taxpayers' money.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (27 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when medical cards will be made accessible on laptop computers in order that doctors on call can have clear knowledge of a patient they are visiting or meeting in the on-call centre so that, first, they can give confidence to the patient and their family, and that they have the history of the patient available and their medication...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (27 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way she came to the decision that â¬531 a week was the cost of nursing home care in Cavan/Monaghan; her views on whether it is right that an old age pensioner with an income of â¬209 per week will have to pay â¬106 of that towards a nursing home caring for their spouse; if it is wrong that someone entering the same nursing home...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (26 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 395: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the situation regarding the decentralisation to Carrickmacross and Monaghan towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17380/07]
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (26 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: Question 785: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the change of ministerial structures will make any difference to Cavan town development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17380/07]
- Co-location of Hospitals: Motion. (26 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Brian Hayes, on raising this important issue tonight. He made an extremely good maiden speech on the health issue for which I applaud him. There are many questions raised with this issue. What is the elected mandate in respect of it? As has been stated, the Minister's party has diminished considerably since the proposal was first made. I notice the...
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: I thank the almost 11,000 people who voted No. 1 for me and those who gave me their second preference in this election. I appreciate this vote of confidence and thank all those who helped. I also congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on his appointment to what is an extremely important job. I hope he will be, as he stated, unbiased. I congratulate the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, on his...
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: ââwill ensure that rural Ireland is preserved and that we are not wiped out. However, my main reason for speaking isââ
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: We will know that after a while. We will know that after the Deputy's party gets its things done.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: The re-appointment of Deputy Harney as Minister for Heath and Children obviously raises frightening anxieties for those who live in Cavan-Monaghan. I ask her to visit the people there and to examine its hospitals and their capabilities. She should not depend on people from London to decide our futures. She is a reasonable person and as Deputy Ring noted, I have always liked her as an...
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)
Seymour Crawford: ââwhen there is no other service available to us.