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Social Welfare Benefits. (20 Apr 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of families eligible for the family income supplement; the number of families in receipt of the family income supplement; if he is concerned about the low uptake of the family income supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15454/10]

Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2010)

Dinny McGinley: It was one of the Taoiseach's boys.

Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Nobody knows anything in this House.

Fostaíocht Gaeltachta. (1 Apr 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Question 4: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an eol dó an ghéarchéim airgeadais in Údarás na Gaeltachta agus na deacrachtaí a éiríonn as seo maidir le fostaíocht a chruthú sna ceantair Ghaeltachta agus an bhfuil sé ar intinn aige bualadh le bord agus feidhmeannaigh an údaráis chun an ghéarchéim a phlé agus a réiteach; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas...

Fostaíocht Gaeltachta. (1 Apr 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Déanaim comhghairdeas, mar atá déanta mo chomhghleacaí anseo, leis an Aire agus leis an Aire Stáit as na cúraimí úra atá tugtha dóibh. Tá súil agam go n-éireoidh go geal ar fad agus atá an bheirt acu ansin. Mar a dúirt an Teachta Ring, áfach, tá súil agam nach mbeidh siad ann ró-fhada. Cuirim fáilte roimh an méid a bhí le rá ag an Aire sa fhreagra ansin maidir le...

Fostaíocht Gaeltachta. (1 Apr 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an fhreagra chuimsitheach atá tugtha aige. Tá a fhios agam nach bhfuil an tAire i mbun na Roinne ach le breis agus seachtain anuas. Tá mé cinnte go bhfuil sé ar intinn ag an Aire cuairt a thabhairt ar na ceantair Gaeltachta chomh luath agus is féidir. Tá súil agam go mbeidh sé ábalta cuairt a thabhairt orainn ó thuaidh gan mhoill go dtí go...

Written Answers — Na hOileáin: Na hOileáin (1 Apr 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Question 48: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil aon iarratas faighte ina Roinn maidir le soilse poiblí a chur ar fáil ar na céanna ar na hOileáin seo, Inis Oirthir, Gabhla, an tOileán Rua, Inis Meáin, Oileán Uaighe agus Inis Caorach, cad é costas measta na soilse agus an gcuirfidh sé an t-airgead ar fáil leis na soilse a thógáil, agus an...

Special Educational Needs: Motion. (31 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: We all understand the difficulties and challenges facing families in this day and age in terms of raising and educating children and the extra challenges and difficulties experienced by families who have a child or children with special educational needs. What a joy, relief and sense of satisfaction it must be to these parents that their child with special needs can participate in mainstream...

Fishing Quotas. (30 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: I thank Deputy McHugh for allowing me a minute of his very limited time. I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment and hope to see him in Donegal, particularly Killybegs, before long. Spurdog or dogfish, now known as rock salmon, was primarily a catch for the inshore fleet, the small 20 ft. or 30 ft. half-decker vessels. It was not meant for the deep-sea pelagic fleet at all...

Passport Applications. (24 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Hear, hear.

Passport Applications. (24 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: It is appropriate that we have an opportunity to discuss this crisis this afternoon. I, on behalf of my colleagues, thank the Ceann Comhairle for providing us with this opportunity. As the Minister of State will be aware, coming from Donegal, one of the jobs a public representative is asked to do is to arrange for the processing of a passport application in Dublin in emergency...

Passport Applications. (24 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: If people cannot get a passport, they do not have any other alternative. I am not recommending it.

Passport Applications. (24 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: It is true that one can qualify for a British passport on those grounds?

Passport Applications. (24 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: In the north west.

Passport Applications. (24 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: When the dust settles that suggestion should be considered.

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (23 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to appoint a haematologist to Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12642/10]

Ombudsman Report. (11 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the contact he has had with the Office of the Ombudsman since her report on lost at sea was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11959/10]

Ombudsman Report. (11 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Is the Minister of State aware of the annoyance of the Ombudsman as conveyed by her address to the IPA last Monday?

Ombudsman Report. (11 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Does the Minister agree that the manner in which the Government has dealt with this matter goes to the heart of the relevance of the Ombudsman? The way the Government has treated this report questions the integrity and competence of the Ombudsman. The ombudsman in the UK suggested that if a government treats a report like that it must be because the ombudsman has gone bonkers. With due...

Ombudsman Report. (11 Mar 2010)

Dinny McGinley: Deputy Sargent may have something to add.