23 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has urgent recommendations to extend pier facilities at Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, in view of the restricted access to Waterford Harbour to fishing boats and the importance of the fishing industry to County Wexford.
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64 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Finance if his Department’s attention has been drawn to the new private hospitals being built by investors availing of current tax relief; and his views on the current situation whereby 30% of publicly funded beds are used by privately insured patients who essentially contribute a second time to the funding of these hospitals.
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30 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the draft nitrates directive action programme; the role his Department had in drawing up the proposals; and if he can provide evidence that farming is the major pollutant of rivers and water supplies.
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23 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date on his Departments implementation plans to decentralise his Department to Wexford.
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287 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Transport if the Railway Procurement Agency and the CIE group of companies applied to National Development Finance Agency for advice on any Public Private Partnership projects.
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123 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food his views on whether it is the IFA’s considered view that the recommendations of the draft nitrates directive action programme are unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable for farming here.
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112 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if his Department has plans to roll out the hours co-ops on a national basis as a means of maintaining an adequate primary care out of hours access to medical services for patients in the future.
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80 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will report on the primary care steering group’s view that the post-graduate medical programme ignores international consensus in medical education to integrate basis sciences with clinical practice.
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42 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if he has had discussions on the radical reorganisation of the major acute hospitals in the Dublin region; his views on transferring tertiary services to one major site which would only do elective work; if one or more of the five major Dublin hospitals will be designated a major acute accident and emergency referral hospital which will only deal with emergencies and not deal with elective work; if there are plans to designate one or more of these five major hospitals a general hospital as defined by the Hanly report which will only do elective work; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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7 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will make a statement on the number of projects which received funding since May 2002 and the number of projects expected to receive funding for specific projects in the acute hospital sector (details supplied).
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324 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children the person who decided that the place of residence of the accident and emergency consultants appointed to Clonmel, Kilkenny and Wexford general hospitals should be Waterford when these consultants will provide the majority of their sessional work (details supplied) in the three hospitals mentioned; and if he will intervene in this vital service for the counties of Wexford, Carlow-Kilkenny and Tipperary.
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316 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason breast screening, including BreastCheck, is not integrated into the regional centre at Waterford Regional Hospital.
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315 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children his views on efforts by local communities in the Mid-Western Health Board and South Eastern Health Board region to try and raise funding to provide a local radiotherapy service; if he will intervene should he oppose these initiatives, if it is on grounds of unavailability of financial resources; if it is due to the recommendations of the radiotherapy group authors; and if so, his views on private radiotherapy units in hospitals here at present in view of the fact that the proposed units in the mid-west are equal in status to these units.
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185 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Education and Science if his Department still plans to make medicine and other allied health professions a postgraduate qualification; and if his Department will publish the drop-out rate of medical students in both the pre-clinical years and the clinical years.
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28 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Finance if his Department through the offices of the OPW has given consideration to using Johnstown Castle in County Wexford as the decentralised headquarters of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government taking into account the role this castle has in this country’s heritage, in view of the fact that the Environment Protection Agency headquarters is nearby, that the castle grounds offer a favourable environment to work nearby and that distance and journey times are favourable for travelling to Dublin.
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77 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will report on progress to date on the investigation into the competitiveness of professional fees; and when she expects this investigation to be completed.
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129 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of the 2,500 rural community employment positions announced in the recent budget which will be available to County Wexford; and if his Department has decided on projects for funding of rural development as proposed under the Fischler reforms.
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125 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children his views on the fact that the Hanly report did not specifically deal with industrial relation issues; and if he has information on the way in which the workload in general practice and the qualifications of ambulance personnel will affect the reforms proposed in the Hanly report.
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92 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children his views on a report compiled by the ERHA detailing the use of elective beds in acute hospitals by patients who were not resident within the region; and if he will focus his views on the SEHB region.
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211 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the evidence of the unreliability of electronic voting which makes the need for a paper trail more compelling and that the outcome of any election could be challenged.
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145 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to present a proposal to Government to make Ireland a dioxin-free country.
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764 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the report by the Northern Area Health Board on the review of general practice manpower, training, recruitment and retention; and if so, his views on the report.
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166 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if the new health services executive will be established as a statutory body or an executive like the Eastern Regional Health Authority.
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158 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if progress has been made by his Department relating to the consultants' contract and how this will affect implementation of the European working time directive.
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3 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the occasions on which diplomatic offices abroad, such as embassies, can be used for private functions by citizens and other nations; and if there is a financial loss or gain to the Exchequer in this regard.
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3 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of GMS lists in each health board that do not have a full-time contracted general practitioner; the length of time the post is run by a locum doctor; the number of GMS general practitioner lists that are under the direct supervision or management of the health boards; and if their attention has been drawn to the manpower problems in general practise.
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