McGrath, PaulTuesday, 26 April 2005 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed).
Question put: “That the words proposed to be deleted stand.”
Voted No 
Amendment put.
Voted Yes
Private Members’ Business - Class Sizes: Motion.
The Minister is now blaming the teachers.
Was that when the Minister abandoned the programme for Government?
Will the Minister publish the review?
Will the Minister publish the review?
The Minister should let us see the review.
That is absolutely true. The Government would only deliver under the threat of being taken to court.
The Minister failed to spend €50 million last year.
The Minister will not be in office for that long.
Dream on. Will the Minister not be Taoiseach by then?
I am surprised.
As Deputy Cassidy is present, we are all right.
Why did the Deputy pick that example?
What were the equivalent figures in 1994 when we were in government?
It was different.
Who did that?
I compliment Deputy Jan O’Sullivan and the Labour Party on this motion. I wholeheartedly support it. I was disappointed to hear the Minister’s speech. She has put much energy into producing figures cl...
If the Minister wishes to go down the road of talking figures, why does she not go further back? One of her predecessors, a Fianna Fáil Minister, was the only Minister in the history of this State who...
The Minister said she would provide services to people where a verified need is identified.
Why do some parents of children with special needs, when they submit the professional assessments of their children, receive a response from the Department that the professional assessment is not accu...
——that the professionals recommended initially. It was said in the programme for Government that there would be class sizes of 20:1 on average for children under nine. The Minister has since scrapped ...
The first part of the reply was that there are 21 primary schools in the Mullingar catchment area. This is only true if one were to travel out as far as Castlepollard or Ballinagore. How can the Minis...
The loss of 50 pupils is the reason the numbers decreased. I carried out a survey on four schools in Mullingar this morning where there are major problems with school enrolments. Of the schools I surv...
The Minister must take the initiative. Mullingar is a growing area that must accommodate these children. We need the facilities to do so.
We started at 8 p.m.
The Galway races.
Written Answers - School Discipline.
Asked the minister: the way in which she intends to tackle growing discipline problems in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Accident and Emergency Services.
Asked the minister: the number of patients who have presented at the accident and emergency department at Tallaght Hospital on each of the past 21 days; and the effect these patients have had on the normal admissions at ...
Written Answers - Health Services.
Asked the minister: if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Hospital Waiting Lists.
Asked the minister: if her attention has been drawn to the fact that all elective surgery has been cancelled at Tallaght Hospital since 10 April 2005; the number of procedures and patients so postponed or cancelled; if s...
Asked the minister: if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be admitted for surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Garda Investigations.
Asked the minister: if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Investigation of Incident.
Asked the minister: if her attention has been drawn to the situation of a person (details supplied); if she will initiate an immediate investigation into this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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