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Written Answers — Fish Sales: Fish Sales (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 529: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will pay full market prices to fishermen who are part of the v-notching scheme for lobsters and who return juvenile lobsters to the sea after v-notching; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27853/12]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 579: To ask the Minister for Health his policy regarding admitting persons with a combination of psychiatric and additional problems to psychiatric units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27987/12]

Written Answers — Rural Transport: Rural Transport (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 640: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the national integrated rural transport scheme; when information on it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28333/12]

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move: That Dáil Éireann: - rejects the Government's decision to terminate independent inquiries into planning irregularities in seven local authorities in June 2011; - denies the Government's excuse that no work had been done on progressing the inquiries; - accepts that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government inherited a completed tendering process for the...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Well, it was not available. We only got it at 6.45 p.m. The report must have been sent all around the world; we were looking for it all afternoon but could not find it. It became available on the Internet only at 6.45 p.m. I welcome the publication of the report. Above all else, we need to have confidence, and the public needs to have confidence, in the planning system. Anything that...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I also understand a whole series of recommendations has been issued, some specific to certain local authorities and some general. I commend this, and I look forward to having an opportunity to read the report. As a Deputy and former county councillor from Galway, I have always felt the planning procedures followed by Galway County Council were good, but I will read with interest what the...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Apparently that belief has been blown out of the water by the report. It was in the Government's interest to bring the matter to a conclusion. If, as I hope, the report proves that politicians were not central to the events described, it is time we knew that. I have pride in our role as politicians. We have been much maligned and, as the Government is now starting to learn, the suspicion...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An bhféadfadh an Taoiseach a rá linn cén uair a fhoilseofar Bille na Gaeltachta agus an bhféadfadh sé a rá cén uair a fhoilseofar na rialacháin faoin Acht Um Sheirbhísí Uisce? Freisin, cén bunús a bhí ag an Aire Comhshaoil, Pobail agus Rialtais Áitiúil le rá go mba cuma le Glór na Tuaithe faoi chaighdeán uisce, mar adúirt sé in agallamh i gConamara an tseachtain seo caite?

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Chuir mé ceist faoi na rialacháin. I can ask about regulations and I asked when the regulations under the Water Services Act, which would lay down the standards for waste water systems, will be published.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are no draft regulations published.

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be given an appointment to see an orthopaedic surgeon at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; the reason for the delay in appointments; his views in relation to such delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27684/12]

Written Answers — Wage Rates: Wage Rates (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance his view of whether wage flexibility is needed which will particularly allow the appropriate degree of wage differentiation across different types of workers and stimulate the hiring of young, female and older workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26902/12]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has set the income threshold that will apply for eligibility for post graduate contribution of €2,000 towards fees, in view of the fact that thousands of students are in the process of making important decisions on their future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26223/12]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of second level school projects that are in Band 2:1 that have completed stage 2B and are not in the five year building programme announced this year; the estimated gross cost of these projects; the names and roll numbers of the schools involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26915/12]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first level or primary school projects that are in Band 2:1 and that have completed stage 2B and are not in the five year programme announced this year; the gross estimated cost of these projects; the names and roll numbers of the schools involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26916/12]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school projects that are in Band 2:1 and are at stage 2B at present and are not included in the five year building programme announced this year; the estimated gross cost of these projects; the names and roll numbers of the schools involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26917/12]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 270: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether there is a need to address rigidifies in the market by reducing the degree of employment protection for permanent jobs. [26903/12]

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 271: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the minimum wage should be reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26904/12]

Written Answers — Inland Fisheries: Inland Fisheries (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 499: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the evidence his Department has, from Inland Fisheries Ireland, to back up a statement that sea lice induced mortality can be significant and that sea lice larvae emanating from farmed salmon may influence individual survivorship and population conservation status of wild salmon; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (6 Jun 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 533: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if persons in receipt of social welfare payments can purchase houses under the tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26136/12]