Results 41-60 of 1,371 for speaker:Máire Hoctor

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (25 Apr 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the cervical screening service is not available free of charge to women beyond 60 years of age and prior to their availing of the free medical card at 70 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14534/06]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (25 Apr 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the national breast-screening service is made available only to women aged between 50 and 64 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14535/06]

Written Answers — Garda Communications: Garda Communications (25 Apr 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Question 630: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the stage at which the development and provision of digital radio services for the emergency services are now at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14342/06]

Written Answers — Garda Training: Garda Training (3 May 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Question 450: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the proposed statutory instrument which is due to be signed in relation to representation for trainee Gardaí (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16352/06]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (9 May 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Question 370: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in having a redundancy payment made available to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17244/06]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed). (17 May 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Tá mé buíoch seans a bheith agam labhairt ar an bpointe tábhachtach seo. I am grateful for the time, however short, to address this issue. I am well qualified to do so, having been a teacher myself. I am fully aware that the presence of pupils in a classroom to the point of overcrowding can have a negative impact. Thankfully we have a Minister who is absolutely committed to her job and I...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed). (17 May 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Reference was made to thousands of children in prefabricated buildings. What is wrong with prefabricated buildings? There is a well-known multinational company in County Kildare whose entire complex is a state-of-the-art prefabricated building. There are now very few prefabricated school buildings, thanks to this Minister. There are alternatives available and schools have the option to put...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed). (17 May 2006)

Máire Hoctor: The 400 to 500 teachers who are now teaching non-Irish children were never included in our programme for Government. However, we recognised that acute need and those teachers are successfully providing English classes to pupils. There is a target to be reached in this area and it is doubtful that it can be done by 2007, but we have addressed the most acute needs first in those areas where...

Courts (Register of Sentences) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Máire Hoctor: I am happy to have the opportunity to address the Private Members' Bill before the House. With my colleagues, I thank and commend Deputy Jim O'Keeffe for bringing this issue before us. Like Deputy O'Connor, I am a firm believer in the system of restorative justice. At a later stage, Deputy O'Keeffe is to bring before the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights a...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Jun 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Question 469: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff in his Department who avail of tele-working or e-working from either their homes or from sub-offices; the grades of these members of staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24697/06]

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: I will only be getting revved up in two minutes. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. When I heard the Labour Party's Private Members' time was to be devoted to a censure motion I was not surprised. It is another reflection of what goes on in Tipperary North, with attempts to highlight Nenagh hospital and downgrade it in their view.

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: The Labour Party was not looking after it anyway. We only have to look at the record of the Labour Party and its investment in Nenagh hospital, which was nil. For it, it did not exist.

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: It should have been fixed at the time of Barry Desmond.

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: May I continue?

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: I will again state that the Hanly report will be good for Nenagh hospital. We have already seen what has happened to Nenagh hospital.

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Deputy Stagg should see the pilot projects that are there. He knows nothing about it.

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: Deputy Stagg can go back to Brendan Howlin and Barry Desmond and see what they did for the hospital.

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: I invite the Deputy to go back and look at their record for Nenagh hospital. It does not exist because they did nothing for it.

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: The Deputy should stay in Dublin, where he belongs. We are grateful for the opportunity, however brief, to make the case against this ridiculous motion. It is a motion of annihilation and self-destruction for a party which has no record of delivery as far as north Tipperary is concerned. I stand by the statement.

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Máire Hoctor: We have performed exceptionally well on a number of issues without a Minister in Tipperary North. There has been delivery on the Silvermines rehabilitation, and a delivery of €2.7 million on an extension to Nenagh hospital to include accident and emergency, X-ray and laboratory facilities.