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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 October 2005
94 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress to date in 2005 on the eradication of consistent poverty as promised in 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30859/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2005
628 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority dwellings that lack central heating facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30356/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2005
600 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of a sewage treatment plant for Clifden, in view of the increased population of Clifden town, County Galway and the necessity for an up-to-dated sewage treatment plant for the town. [30150/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2005
149 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take following the publication by the office of environmental enforcement of its report, The Nature and Extent of Unauthorised Waste Activity in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30355/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2005
96 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date of the provision of social housing envisaged under Part V of Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30676/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2005
181 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Science if a decision will be made in order that the State puts the development of multi-denominational education on a statutory footing and to make it an objective of the national development plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29862/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
299 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the ambulance transport service has been curtailed in the western area of the Health Service Executive whereby only certain persons (details supplied) in County Galway are now eligible for the service; the reason patients were not informed of this decision; if he plans to restore this vital service without further delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29089/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
164 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when Comhairle na nOspidéal will report on the review of neurosurgery services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28923/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
177 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of MRI scanners which exist in the public health service; the number which are in use in the public health system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28924/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 October 2005
125 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Transport if funding from the capital programme will be provided for the reopening of the western rail corridor which will serve the counties of Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Limerick and Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28483/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 October 2005
10 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a national audit of all sports facilities has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28086/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 October 2005
47 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his proposals for the reorganisation of local tourism bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28085/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 October 2005
109 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to encourage the development of alternative fuels and the extent to which he expects this to meet compliance with Kyoto principles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28055/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 October 2005
98 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that the quality of the mobile telephone services here are on par with the quality elsewhere throughout Europe; his plans for improvement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28071/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2005
42 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of multi-denominational schools here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27551/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2005
34 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to bring the Irish language entry requirements for primary teaching courses into line with those for English and mathematics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27570/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2005
103 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the current political situation in Haiti; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26917/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2005
20 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding peace negotiations in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26885/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 October 2005
132 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the national development plan is fully implemented in the Border, midlands and western region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26543/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 October 2005
94 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the serious problems being created in the decentralisation programme by the lack of clarity around the status of employees who do not wish to relocate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26693/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2005
367 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Transport the progress which is being made in the decentralisation of the road haulage division to Loughrea, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26303/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 September 2005
1328 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has made or the arrangements he has entered into with local authorities which are introducing water metres for all non-domestic customers; the provisions which will be made to have voluntary secondary schools exempt from water charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24255/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 September 2005
1193 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25306/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 September 2005
781 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Transport his plans to streamline the regulations concerning the issuing of permits to contractors for the movement of large construction equipment on public roads; if this matter will be dealt with nationally rather than the present situation which necessitates contractors applying to each local authority where the machinery moves through; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24776/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 September 2005
712 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby lone parents who have joined community employment schemes find that they are being penalised in doing so due to the fact that health board payments have not been increased for a number of years, particularly secondary health board payments; if he plans to increase these payments in budget 2006 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24259/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2005
32 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is considering changing the dual eligibility rule for persons in receipt of the carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22907/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2005
193 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to eliminate the surge of the MRSA bug in hospitals throughout the country resulting in many patients contracting the MRSA bug; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22090/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2005
192 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the extreme difficulty being experienced by applicants for medical card services whereby general practitioners are refusing to sign medical card applications due to their ongoing difficulties with her Department; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that this is now making it impossible for persons to apply for medical cards in view of the fact that community welfare officers cannot sign applications due to the absence of a general practitioner’s signature; the way in which she proposes to solve this problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22089/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2005
128 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on the recent report which stated that Ireland was the sixth worst performer in the EU regarding its failure to achieve set targets under the Kyoto Protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22315/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2005
34 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on his plans for the restructuring of An Bord Pleanála and for changes to planning legislation. [22317/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2005
27 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the recent announcement on social housing will eliminate local authority housing waiting lists; the date by which he expects the elimination to have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22751/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 June 2005
238 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of additional accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the current progress on the provision of this extension as five teachers out of a staff of 11 are teaching in temporary accommodation such as prefabs and portacabins. [21742/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2005
110 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Transport his plans regarding the expansion of the bus market in the greater Dublin area; when this will occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21219/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2005
28 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied with the progress made to date in the decentralisation of State agencies under his control; his views on the number of posts to be decentralised in each location; the number of personnel identified and willing to move to these locations; the work which is under way to ensure full-take up of this scheme to fill the specified number of posts in each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21220/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2005
64 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that women in the north-west choose to have mastectomies due to the fact that they cannot face the long distances and travel for cancer care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20897/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2005
125 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she requested the HSE to ask each acute hospital to submit a report on issues regarding hygiene and infection control before the HSE began its audit of these issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20896/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 June 2005
57 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will mobilise her Department to ensure that BreastCheck facilities are available at University College Hospital, Galway, without further delay; if she will make a statement outlining her commitment for the provision of BreastCheck services to University College Hospital, Galway, immediately; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20445/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 June 2005
25 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a decision will be made on the development of a new national theatre building in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20204/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2005
22 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the extent to which he has studied the causes of the high cost of mobile telephone use here; his plans to deal with the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20001/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2005
43 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has identified the number of alternative fuel production proposals currently available for consideration; the extent to which he expects to encourage the development of such fuels over a specific period with a view to achieving less dependance on CO2 emitting fossil fuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20042/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
93 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of students who failed to make the transition from primary to secondary education in 2003 and 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19717/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 June 2005
234 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Science her plans to regularise the situation regarding special needs assistants in primary schools; her further plans to make those posts full-time; if re-deployment arrangements will be entered into where special needs assistants become surplus to requirements in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18752/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 June 2005
18 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the timescale for the decentralisation of Development Cooperation Ireland to Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18630/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2005
187 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to introduce regulations to allow widows who have no other income except the widow’s pension to qualify for the free schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18541/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2005
186 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider eliminating the anomaly whereby a person giving full-time care to an invalid is means tested on all of an income from an English pension of approximately €100 per week when in the normal course of events there is an exemption income of €270 per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18540/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2005
119 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department will consider providing additional speech therapy services to persons with learning difficulties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18546/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2005
46 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Finance if he has not satisfied himself with the progress of any area in implementing the programme for Government. [18358/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 May 2005
467 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason 80% of the nationally proposed SAC areas are in counties Galway and Mayo; if there will be a more even distribution of proposed designated areas throughout the country; if the EU directive sought 70% of land to be designated; the reason it is proposed that 14% of land nationally be designated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18054/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2005
119 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the provision of a Garda barracks (details supplied) in County Galway. [17672/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2005
79 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Finance the criteria used by the national public procurement policy unit in its competitive processing system for short-listing contractors who can tender for major road works; when the change was made in the tendering process; and the way in which the contractors are selected and the persons allowed to tender (details supplied). [17673/05]