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Written Answers — Court Accommodation: Court Accommodation (17 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress of plans to extend the Drug Treatment Court currently operating in the Dublin 7 area to the wider Dublin area; the budgetary provisions the Government is making to allow for this extension of the Court; and if he will extend the Drug Treatment Court to cover the rest of the state. [18597/06]

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (17 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 294: To ask the Minister for Defence if Defence Forces have served alongside British forces on UN peacekeeping missions abroad in the last 30 years; if so, when and the location at which. [18576/06]

Cabinet Sub-committees. (17 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If the Taoiseach is correct in saying the Cabinet will deal with the matter, will he consider scrapping the sub-committee instead of organising another meeting? If the Taoiseach will allow the sub-committee to reconvene, will he encourage its members to examine New Zealand's renationalisation of an airline at its next meeting?

Cabinet Sub-committees. (17 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not want to know what was discussed.

Cabinet Sub-committees. (17 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Taoiseach consider asking the sub-committee to examine that renationalisation after a disastrous privatisation?

Cabinet Sub-committees. (17 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Considering the heroin and cocaine crisis, has the Taoiseach encouraged the sub-committee on drugs to meet on a more frequent basis?

Departmental Bodies. (17 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Like the other Deputies, I welcome the task force on active citizenship and wish Ms Mary Davis well in her job. I hope the task force will be able to highlight the main barriers to active citizenship for many people and consider that aspect, as well as how to encourage people to give up their time freely. Barriers include exorbitant mortgage payments, which people have to work long hours to...

Departmental Bodies. (17 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Taoiseach look again at ensuring that immigrant communities are represented as a body? The representative could be somebody from the newspaper Metro Éireann, the Immigrant Council of Ireland or from Sport Against Racism in Ireland. I know the Taoiseach is interested in sports. It should be a direct representation rather than through some secondary body, as was suggested.

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (16 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the necessary funding will be released to ensure that the successful cocaine pilot project in Tallaght, Dublin 24 remains open. [18052/06]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (16 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the funding required has been given to St. James's Hospital to purchase the necessary equipment to carry out a procedure entailing bone anchoring of hearing aids; and when the patients awaiting this operation in the hospital for over a year will see these operations carried out. [17920/06]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (16 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the hospital plan 2006 submitted by St. James's Hospital included details of the funding required to purchase the necessary equipment to carry out a procedure entailing bone anchoring of hearing aids. [17921/06]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (16 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason beds in St. James's Hospital, Dublin were booked for patients requiring bone anchoring of hearing aids despite the fact that the hospital did not have the equipment required for the medical procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17922/06]

Written Answers — Diplomatic Representation: Diplomatic Representation (16 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to his response to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 26 April 2006, the number and type of representations made by the Irish Embassy to prison authorities in the case of a person (details supplied); the dates these representations were made; and the responses received from the prison authorities. [17851/06]

Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (16 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 407: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the tender to review the effectiveness of the Prison Service's capital expenditure programme specifically excludes all PPP projects from examination; if there are plans to assess PPP projects using the same criteria as non-PPP capital expenditures; if so, when and by whom; and if no such plans exist, the reason...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (16 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the emerging crisis in respect of the Afghans in St. Patrick's Cathedral seeking refugee status and who have now engaged in a thirst as well as a hunger strike; the unacceptable and draconian manner in which asylum applications are processed in this State; the shameful failure of the State to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to examine the proposal of reducing the 12 month time criteria that certain social welfare recipients, such as unemployed persons, single parents and people with disabilities, have to be in receipt of social welfare payments before they are deemed eligible to apply for the back to education allowance. [17556/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average time period for a one parent family payment claim to be processed; and if he has satisfied himself with this timescale. [17557/06]

European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (10 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Cheann Comhairle as an deis fáilte eile a chur roimh bhallraíocht na Romáine agus na Bulgáire go luath insan Aontas Eorpach. It is deeply ironic that today an unelected, politically appointed Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, spoke here and participated in a political debate at the invitation of Deputy Deasy and his party leader, supported by...

European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (10 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will return to it because we have an EU day——

European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (10 May 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not criticising Deputy Deasy. I said I welcomed——