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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (5 Nov 2013)

Niall Collins: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if payment of the student contribution charge of €2,500 for the academic year 2013-14 for third level colleges, which may be paid in two instalments, can also be paid by monthly instalments. [46361/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court of Appeal Establishment (5 Nov 2013)

Niall Collins: 728. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Court of Appeal will be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (5 Nov 2013)

Niall Collins: 1109. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding his dealings in respect of St. Brigid's Hospital, Crooksling, Brittas, County Dublin; if he will give assurances to families and the wider community regarding its future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46199/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas Exploration (24 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: 23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress he has made in developing a new fiscal and regulatory framework for the oil and gas exploration industry in Ireland; the persons he has consulted in developing this new framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44956/13]

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: What about the Minister, Deputy Reilly, speaking from the back of a truck outside Roscommon hospital. Is that airbrushed as well?

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: What did he say in Monaghan and Roscommon?

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: I am not uncomfortable at all.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Deputy Buttimer is the hypocrite.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Will Deputy Buttimer clarify what the Minister, Deputy Reilly, said in Roscommon?

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: That is unfair on Roscommon and Monaghan.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: One will not be able to give them a decent burial now.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Is that a threat? Go on.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Deputy Buttimer should quote back to us what the Minister said in Roscommon.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: As part of Dáil reform we should bring YouTube into the Chamber.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: We discussed the medical card issue in the House a little over two weeks ago and the Minister was present for that debate. On that occasion I gave him the details of a constituent of mine from Caherguillamore in Bruff, County Limerick, and I regret to say that I have not heard from him in that respect in the intervening two weeks. I did not even get an acknowledgment from him that he would...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Why are the public representatives-----

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: -----the Ministers and the Minister of State present, not going into RTE and facing the people and telling them why the Government has changed the policy? It is not good enough that the Government sent in a relatively unknown public servant-----

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: -----who, when he was pressed on three occasions, finally coughed it out that there has been a change in policy. I ask the Minister of State to take that point on board. Regarding medical cards for children under five which the Government has announced, that appears to be a robbing Peter to pay Paul exercise. While everybody concurs that giving children under the age of five a medical card...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Many people have said it.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: It is on the record - shop around and perhaps look on e-tenders, effectively. It is not good enough. Many people know that the bereavement grant goes to the undertaker and that the undertaker does not get paid until the estate of the deceased person goes through probate and is finally signed off. The undertaker is then paid out of the proceeds. The bereavement grant keeps the undertaker...