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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (10 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: The service has ceased. It is a very serious issue. There is no dermatology service in Waterford, with the highest level of skin care demand in the country. I was told by the Minister and Professor Higgins that during the establishment of the hospital groups patients would not be required to travel as the consultants would go to where the need was. Why are consultants not coming from Cork...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (10 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: That directly contravenes what the Higgins report was set up for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (10 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: I want to focus in particular on Question No. 38, on the cardiology department of University Hospital Waterford. The Minister knows we have spoken about this at length. Unfortunately, there are now headlines in the local newspapers referring to a cardiac crisis. Services have been suspended for one or two afternoons per week in the hospital. This directly contradicts what I was told on 13...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (10 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason County Waterford has not been included in the Wild Atlantic Way; if he will outline the tourist strategy being put in place to promote Waterford and the Copper Coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30445/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: Following the line of questioning on the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland, MIBI, and following a series of parliamentary questions I submitted to the Minister on this issue, we were told the claims of third parties could and would be met. However, from the point of view of those with an outstanding claim, there seems to be a great deal of confusion in this regard. Let us look at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: Who will be given information on the outcome of that board meeting? Will the information be given to the individuals who have been in contact with the MIBI? Will it be given to us and the Department of Finance? Will it be made public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: I have another question on European -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: It relates to European-wide regulation. I understand what has been said and that we have been to the fore in trying to influence practice, but given what the European markets have been through in the past few years, it is staggering that regulators do not yet interact with each other. How many other insurance companies like Setanta Insurance are there in Ireland? I understand most...

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: This happened in our parliamentary party room. Age Action Ireland asked us to stop flying kites so that older people would not be scared yet Deputy Willie O'Dea and his party are trying to do the same thing to older people up and down the country. It is shameful.

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: As I understand it, there was a PowerPoint presentation on how the kite flying by politicians was upsetting old people at home and to refrain from doing so. I find it difficult that the same organisation is doing that when the Tánaiste stated categorically in the House that the scheme is not under threat. This Government is reviewing and reforming the scheme but that does not mean it...

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: The motion is cynical and is an example of scaremongering. I find it very difficult to think the same organisation stood in our parliamentary party meeting rooms and asked us to refrain from doing what it has done in the past number of weeks. From family members involved in Age Action Ireland, I know it does great work at local level and I find it difficult to understand why it has taken...

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: No, the only joke is the Fianna Fáil motion. The Tánaiste categorically stated in the House that the scheme will not change.

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: Deputy Willie O'Dea is scaremongering, as reflected in the number of people who have contacted our clinics and Deputies. This is the worst kind of politics.

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: This is the worst kind of politics when we know for a fact that the scheme will be protected. Fianna Fáil should withdraw the motion. It is ridiculous.

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: The free travel pass the motion contends is under threat is something that is hugely important to both the social and economic fabric of the country. It is regarded by many as a badge of honour and a reward for the hard work they have done inside and outside the home. It is held dearly by many people throughout the country. Deputy Willie O'Dea mentioned some of the organisations that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: 429. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce an adequate number of free child care places, as previously promised, to counteract the difficulties being faced by parents who are losing the one-parent family payment; the timeline in place to provide the child care places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29914/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: 430. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list in tabular form of the numbers of persons who will move from the one-parent family payment to jobseeker's allowance over the next 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29915/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (8 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: 431. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce other supports for working parents who will lose the one-parent family payment; if she will reconsider the income disregards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29916/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Expanding the Role of the Pharmacy: Irish Pharmacy Union (1 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: We should start to push the two schemes the witnesses are proposing, particularly the minor ailment scheme which is cost neutral. Very few schemes these days are cost neutral. We will push it with the HSE at our quarterly meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Expanding the Role of the Pharmacy: Irish Pharmacy Union (1 Jul 2014)

Ciara Conway: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I have a couple of follow-on questions from those raised by Deputy Regina Doherty and Senator Colm Burke. Unfortunately, there has been a huge increase in polydrug use and the abuse of prescription drugs. Given that the street value of benzodiazepines, known as "benzos", is quite high and that it is common for people to be addicted and to abuse...