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Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 10:In page 20, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:" "moderate increase in treatment" means an unplanned return to surgery, an unplanned re-admission, a prolonged episode of care, extended time in hospital or as an outpatient, cancelling of treatment, or transfer to another treatment area (such as intensive care);".

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 11:In page 20, line 25, to delete "shall be construed in accordance with section 8;" and substitute the following:"means both— (a) a Category A safety incident construed in accordance with section 8, and (b) a Category B safety incident construed in accordance with section 9;".

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 13:In page 21, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:“Meaning of “Category A safety incident” 8. In this Part, “Category A safety incident”, in relation to the provision of a health service to a patient by a health services provider, means an unintended or unanticipated incident that occurred in respect of a patient in the...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister took issue with the fact that our definitions of the different kinds of harm have not been exhaustively tested and that his preference is for those definitions to be provided for in regulations. We say that the definitions brought forward here are reasonably broad and detailed, but not exhaustive. However, it is open to the Minister, should he wish to provide more exhaustive...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister would be disappointed if I was not giving out. Surveys consistently show that health care professionals support open disclosure after a safety incident. A survey of US and Canadian physicians revealed that disclosure attitudes were similar in both countries, with 98% agreeing that serious adverse events should be disclosed and 78% supporting the disclosure of minor adverse...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Our information contradicts the Minister's information. We have seen that methane produced per head of cattle shows that global livestock emissions in 2011 were 11% higher than estimates based on data from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Therefore, the figures the Department has been working with need to be revised. At the very least, more robust containment and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am very interested in agriculture. It is the best industry in the country. I want those involved to be more focused on the issues and challenges of climate change.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I do not make cheap pot shots. I will not get any headlines for this - the Minister need not worry about that – and I am not even looking for them. The Minister did not answer my question on anaerobic digestion plants. Is it possible that there are more in the Six Counties than in the Twenty-six Counties? Why is that the case? Why are we not doing more in that area? Since...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: That is not true. That is not what I said.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is misrepresenting my position.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I was referring to all dairy and beef production, not only ours.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of manure systems that are dry systems and liquid systems, respectively; the percentage of agricultural manure handled in anaerobic digesters, anaerobic lagoons and liquid or slurry systems, respectively; the nitrous oxide emissions from manure management in the past ten years for which there are figures available;...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has repeatedly told me that the agriculture sector will move towards an approach to carbon neutrality which does not compromise capacity for sustainable food production. We are still waiting for a definition of carbon neutrality, yet emissions from the agriculture sector are rising year on year, in accordance with the policy set out in the Food Wise 2025 plan. This question...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: As Deputy Daly said, our aim here is to place an obligation on health care providers to be open with patients in the aftermath of a serious incident resulting in the patient suffering serious harm. Our preference would have been to place an obligation on health care providers to always be open about any incident, no matter how minor, but in our amendments we have now restricted this to more...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 1:In page 11, line 7, to delete “5 years” and substitute “3 years”. I just make the point at the outset that it is a bit mad that the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality is sitting to deal with business at the same time as this debate is taking place. While I acknowledge that it is not the fault of the Minister of State, things should be...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Much of the extra money that has been allotted for this area is being swallowed up by private entities. The people trying to rear families that include children with severe autism will be the first to tell the Taoiseach that many of the private institutions that provide care do not represent value for money, although some of them do. In most cases, these entities are getting €24 per...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I had planned on raising a different issue, but I got an email last night from a woman in Wexford called Jane Johnston, who is the mother of two severely autistic children, Daniel and Evan. She is at the end of her wits from trying to deal with the HSE. I will read a little of her email:Evan is now 17 years old and was diagnosed with severe autism just before his third birthday. He did not...

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Hold on a minute. It sold 3,800 sites in Cherrywood for €27,000 each to Hines, a vulture fund, which is now selling them for more than €100,000 each. Explain how this makes sense to the Irish people, NAMA selling 3,800 sites in Cherrywood for €27,000 each and now Hines is selling them for more than €100,000 each. Explain the logic of that to me, please.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: It is State land, please. It belongs to the State.