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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, since the Health Service Executive locum agency framework was launched in February 2010, she will provide the amount the HSE has spent separately on locum NCHDs and consultants with the successful tendered framework agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35327/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, since the Health Service Executive locum agency framework was launched in February 2010, the amount the HSE has spent separately on non-consultant hospital doctors and consultants for placement of three months and less with agencies that are not party to the framework agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35328/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views that the locum framework agencies have failed to satisfy the demand for locum consultants leaving hospitals, without adequate consultant cover because of restrictions implemented by the Health Service Executive during the tender process on the locum consultant pay rate; the measures the HSE intends to take to alleviate this...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money that was spent by the Health Service Executive for locum doctor placement in 2009. [35330/10]

National Transport Authority (6 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport if proposals to integrate the Irish Aviation Authority into the National Transport Authority are to proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35129/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (5 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the relationship between her Department and the Health Information and Quality Authority; if she will outline the established protocols, if any, that are in place to ensure that recommendations made in HIQA reports are implemented without delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34633/10]

Written Answers — Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Amendments (5 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the level of consultation, if any, that she has engaged in with other Departments since the publication of draft wording for a proposed constitutional amendment on children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34632/10]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (5 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps in place to help discover cases of dyslexia in primary schools; if a national test will be undertaken in order to assess the extent of the condition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34460/10]

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: I am pleased to make a contribution on the Bill. On behalf of the Fine Gael Party, I welcome its entry into this House for debate. It will have the support of Fine Gael on Second Stage, as it had in the Upper House. I wish to flag that there will a number of amendments on Committee Stage which we can debate. I stress that this is a complex and technical Bill. We will have an opportunity...

Child Care Services (5 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a national director for childcare services will be appointed; and the role and functions of the director [34957/10]

Child Care Services (5 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: What does the Minister of State mean by "shortly"? Very little progress has been made on this matter since his announcement in June this year. I remind him that in what was one of the most euphemistic statements of the year, he adverted to clear defects within the child care system. I should have thought that this might have acted as an alarm bell in the Minister of State's office, to...

Child Care Services (5 Oct 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Unless and until such an appointee reports directly to the Minister of State's office the defects in the child care system will continue. Will the Minister of State confirm that this initiative arises directly from the PA Consultants' report? I remind him of that report's recommendations which pointed clearly to confusion and lack of consistency in terms of how child care services are being...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Sep 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 639: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Laois may expect to be called for a surgical procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32472/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Sep 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 646: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Laois can expect to be called for a surgical procedure in view of the fact that their health is deteriorating; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32510/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Sep 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 647: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Laois can expect to be called for a cardiac treatment at St. James Hospital, Dublin.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32512/10]

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Time for the Taoiseach to close the door.

EU Fines (8 Jul 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 9: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government the position he has taken in response to threatened EU fines for failure properly introduce planning and environmental legislation; if will make a statement on matter. [30553/10]

Written Answers — Prisoner Releases: Prisoner Releases (8 Jul 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 404: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will clarify the grounds a prisoner on conditional release may be recalled to prison, on whose authority such a recall order is made; the administrative procedure for dealing with recalled prisoners; if a prisoner is recalled to prison, is the time spent on conditional release deducted from their sentence; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Installation Aid Scheme: Installation Aid Scheme (6 Jul 2010)

Charles Flanagan: Question 575: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application for installation aid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29398/10]

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Charles Flanagan: I move amendment No. 35: In page 86, to delete lines 21 to 29. This concerns the definition of a qualified cohabitant under section 169. We propose that subsection (6) of section 169 be deleted because it is unnecessarily restrictive. I am concerned that the consequences will give rise to difficulty. It is interesting that this subsection was not included in the original heads of the Bill,...