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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (3 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports or transport schemes available for a person (details supplied) that has severe spinal injuries and requires access to a car to maintain decent quality of life; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41338/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations (3 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: 523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if remedial work will be undertaken at the entrance to Castleknock Railway Station which is in poor condition and a safety concern due to a broken path and overgrowth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41459/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (3 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: 553. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and percentage of child-care providers nationally who have signed up for the affordable childcare scheme; the number and percentage that have not yet signed up; the reason some providers have not yet signed up; the efforts under way to achieve 100% compliance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (3 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: 606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dispute resolution procedures undertaken by the Residential Tenancies Board in each of the past five years, in tabular form; the outcome in each case; if cases are still ongoing; if so, the reason for the dispute; the duration of each dispute procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41471/17]

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: Like my colleagues on the justice committee, I support the recommendations made here. I thank and welcome the people in the Gallery, who deserve recognition and also rights. Those rights need to be properly progressed by the Government. The committee's report mirrors what the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, introduced and recommended when he was its Chairman. He probably has...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (28 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: My example goes outside the criteria listed by the Minister. I have seen a number of cases in which people who were given appointments for planned procedures have had those procedures systemically cancelled by the hospital system in a manner which is devastating for them. The hospitals in question have stated in their correspondence that they will be in touch in due course, but they have...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (28 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: 12. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists who were due to receive scheduled treatment during October, November and December 2017 and who have been notified that their procedures have been postponed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40956/17]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (28 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: I want to ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists who were due to receive their scheduled treatment during October, November and December 2017 and who have been notified that their procedures have been postponed or cancelled.

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (28 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Minister for his response. My question concerns a number of examples of which I am aware, whereby someone was given an appointment for six weeks' time and then the appointment was cancelled the following week. This is not an emergency process. It is not about capacity or urgent demand in a hospital in a particular week. It is scheduled postponement which I see as taking place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: I agree with that but what about the political question? Does Ms Feehily think that in terms of the political debate, things are being thrown at the authority for which it is not responsible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: Okay. My final question relates to the fact we do not have a Garda Commissioner at present. Last year, Ms Feehily said she noted the Garda Commissioner's personal commitment to modernisation and renewal. Does Ms Feehily regret her retirement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: How many elements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: In what areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: What else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: There are four or five areas where the witnesses feel there has not been delivery as per the prescribed timeline for this year. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: The strategy statement mentions implementing a performance management system beginning in the third quarter of 2016. How is that progressing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: What was the explanation for the delay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: The then Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, appeared before the committee before the summer recess. When we asked about the training and development budget for An Garda Síochána it was shown in the Vote for the Department of Justice and Equality that it had been reduced from €19 million to €12.7 million, an effective cut of one third this year. The Policing Authority...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: I will finish shortly but my next question relates to accountability. In the Dáil and elsewhere we hear the Government regularly speak about the Policing Authority doing X, Y and Z while in the last hour and a half we have heard the witnesses from the Policing Authority refer a great deal to the power of the Minister. Do the witnesses feel the Policing Authority is being used to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Jack Chambers: As part of oversight does the authority provide accountability?