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Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Mar 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the lessons which can be learned from the case of persons (details supplied). [9857/05]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Mar 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are any circumstances in which private patients who have paid a fee to a private consultant can obtain treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; the checks that are in place to deal with this in Beaumont, the Mater and the Children's Hospital, Temple Street. [9859/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Mar 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the system of reporting by consultants on the mix of public and private patients receiving procedures in public hospitals, which is made to hospital chief executive officers; and if this information is publicly accountable and monitored in Beaumont, the Mater and the Children's Hospital, Temple Street. [9858/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Mar 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has received the results of a pilot study on the use of digital hearing aids; if she has assessed the findings; and if she has set out a policy framework for the health service for which it is appropriate to provide this technology to clients of the service. [9860/05]

Written Answers — Trademark Legislation: Trademark Legislation (24 Mar 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if trademark legislation can give protection to a UK subsidiary of a multinational company to insist that Irish retailers source products through the UK instead of sourcing the same product from the United States at a lower cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9865/05]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress to date in the acquisition on behalf of her Department of a site for a school (details supplied); when the acquisition will be completed; if she has initiated the planning of the building to be erected on the site; and her target date for the opening of the school. [9866/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Services: Nursing Home Services (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the Government's attitude to the entitlement of persons who hold medical cards and who are in need of nursing home services but who have had to avail of private nursing home services due to the lack of a public place in view of the recent Supreme Court judgment; the Government's position in relation to paying for the cost...

Written Answers — Mental Health Tribunals: Mental Health Tribunals (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the mental health tribunals which were to be established under the 2002 Act will be established in order that persons who are aggrieved at their treatment would have a proper course of action for redress. [10238/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the system of reporting made by individual consultants in respect of the mix of public and private patients receiving procedures in public hospitals to hospital chief executive officers and if this information is publicly accountable and monitored in Beaumont, the Mater Hospital and the Children's Hospital, Temple Street....

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to provide a flexible system to meet the needs of patients with lifelong conditions who have to obtain emergency meetings their consultants when the need arises; if she has considered establishing a protocol for such situations in all public hospitals to force consultants or members of their teams...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 279: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concerns regarding barriers to entry in the dental profession; her proposals to alter the arrangements under which a person may enter training to become a dentist or may be recognised as competent to provide dental services here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10800/05]

Written Answers — Special Savings Incentive Scheme: Special Savings Incentive Scheme (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 361: To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances in which an SSIA holder would be liable for 23% of the entire moneys in the scheme due to recourse to borrowings by a person to fund any part of the investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10406/05]

Written Answers — Post Office Network: Post Office Network (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the likely impact on post offices of a switch of social welfare payments to non-cash methods; if he has a strategy to ensure the long-term viability of the post office network as this business gradually reduces under the policies being promoted by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. [10996/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 527: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his policy in relation to the move from payment books to electronic crediting of bank accounts for social welfare clients; the arrangements which have been made with financial institutions to ensure that social welfare recipients would not face unwanted bank charges as a result of the transfer; the typical saving in costs to his...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Legislation: Road Traffic Legislation (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 560: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no requirement for the insurance of horse drawn carriages which are used for taxi and tourist purposes on public streets and that persons who sustain injury as a result of an accident caused by a horse have no means of recovering compensation; and if he will take action to update this...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 581: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has issued a policy direction to the National Roads Authority obstructing its proposal to buy back the tolling rights in respect of the M50; the assessment he has undertaken of the analysis by the authority underpinning its original proposal; the reason this conflict of policy has arisen between the authority and his ministry. [10812/05]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 736: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the criteria applied in deciding on the application of nominating parents of a person married to an Irish national to receive a holiday visa; the reason refusals are not accompanied by detailed reasons for the refusal in order that an appeal may address these reasons in a meaningful manner; and the reasons for refusal in...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 865: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of national school classes in the Dublin 24 area which have 30 or more children in the classes; the number of teachers in national schools in the Dublin 24 area employed by her Department in each year over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10257/05]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 1076: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider amending the planning law so that effective enforcement action will be taken in respect of incomplete estates in which residents are living, before the five years during which a planning application remains valid for completion works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10236/05]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (13 Apr 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 78: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the Law Reform Committee of the law society's view that positive discrimination in terms of one-off housing is in some cases in breach of the Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and EU law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11022/05]