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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (5 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 607. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will request the OPW to remove the cover on a protected historical structure (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10403/19]

Independent Radio Stations: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I commend my colleague, Deputy Dooley, for bringing this motion before the House. I listened to the various contributions to the debate in my office earlier. We cannot overestimate the importance of local radio stations to communities. Tipperary has Tipp FM, an independent station, and Tipperary Mid West Radio, a community based station. The community stations are under extreme pressure....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding available to a person (details supplied) to obtain the required training to qualify for a licence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9983/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I want to raise the issue of working school principals whose administrative workloads are increasing. In County Tipperary, a number of principals have resigned because they cannot cope with their workloads. Has the Minister for Education and Skills advanced any plans to increase the number of administrative days for working school principals?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are regulations which would stop the board of management of a school (details supplied) from designing an extension to the classrooms and applying for planning permission from the local authority with a view to presenting it for funding at some stage in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9620/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when the construction of the modular unit of South Tipperary General Hospital will be completed; if the €7.5 million required to staff it has been allocated in budget 2019; if the recruitment process to staff the unit has commenced; the length of time the recruitment process will take; if the unit will be in a position to take patients by August...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 491. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if proposals will be brought forward for a pilot programme for a deposit return policy for plastic bottles to commence the process of reducing the amount of plastic dumped in the environment annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9530/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Professor More for a very detailed presentation. He has studied TB eradication in this country in great depth. We want to be sure we do not eradicate the farmer while we are trying to cure the problem. On the cost-sharing between Government and industry, farmers have been paying for TB testing for several years. It is not an insignificant cost at farm level. When farmers agreed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Murphy for his presentation. We have had a very detailed discussion on TB. I do not have much else to say on the matter. I see that there is a control programme for Johne's disease. I have serious concerns about this control programme. I refer to the tests we talked about earlier and the practice of leaving reactor animals on farms. I have no confidence in our current test...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I do not understand some of the points Mr. Neary made. At present, a group of veterinaries get together, form a partnership and have a company and Mr. Neary stated a corporate body cannot issue an invoice. When a person gets a bill from his or her veterinarian at present, it is coming from the company. I do not understand how Mr. Neary can say that about the ownership. For instance, I get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I understand now. I apologise to Mr. Neary for stopping him in his tracks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I do not remember that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Only UCD.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I want to go back to the Veterinary Council and the corporate ownership of practices. Where is that at? Mr. Neary said there is no corporate governance at present. What does the Veterinary Council do? It was stated that a huge number of practices are under negotiation for sale and four have gone through. Will Veterinary Ireland propose that legislation should be changed? Where does it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: That is a serious statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Has the Veterinary Council done anything to progress it? Has it made a comment on whether it agrees or disagrees?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Will sales be allowed to continue while the process is ongoing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I apologise for interrupting. Who registers a practice? Must a practice be registered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Register with whom?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Surely if there are question marks it should put on the handbrake until the question marks are resolved.