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Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There are 269 jobs at risk.

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will refer to two pieces of legislation.

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will outline the two pieces of legislation, if the Ceann Comhairle bears with me.

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is not a case of having two bites of the cherry. The landlord and tenant Bill is one promised piece of legislation, with the other being the land conveyancing Bill.

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Government intend to have a referendum to deal with upward only rent reviews? We will have referendums in the autumn, which would be an ideal time to have a referendum to deal with the issue. The advice of the Attorney General to the Government has not been published so nobody can understand why the Government-----

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----does not want to comply with the programme for Government.

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Rejection.

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: More proposals.

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Given the earlier debate, I am concerned that only two Deputies, whether Opposition or Government, tabled this matter as a Topical Issue because I presume we all received the same reminder about the issue.

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a pity.

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We are dealing with the question of 32 survivors who struggle with everyday life. The amount mentioned by the Minister of State that they receive from the German foundation eases the burden but does not lift it.

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is an acknowledgement of the role the State has played since 1975, but given the fact they face substantial new challenges because of middle age and old age the victims have reasserted their call for the issue to be dealt with, as the programme for Government stated it would be.

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Government committed in the programme for Government to address the issues of thalidomide survivors in Ireland and to compensate them. Two years later, we are still waiting for it to do so. It is hoped the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, will be able to give survivors, the number of whom is reducing, some hope of their issues being addressed. While many people have been waiting since...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I asked earlier about the report that was produced by the Department in April and given to the Minister. I was not asking the witnesses to comment on what the Government does or does not do once it receives a report, other than confirming that there have been discussions since then. In some ways, the budget changed everything in the report. One of the promises or suggestions that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a number of questions. I was almost lost in the tables in the report. Sometimes when one looks at statistics it is hard to glean exactly what they indicate. I welcome the fact that the group considers that the universal child payment should be paid in respect of all children. That was a good outcome, albeit that the effect of what was being proposed would be a reduced universal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health if an impact analysis has been undertaken by his Department on the budget cuts at Crumlin Children's Hospital and atTemple St. Children's Hospital in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13791/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health if an impact analysis has been undertaken by his Department on the cut of €9 million from Saint James's Hospital, Dublin in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13790/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Back to Education Allowance Applications (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 cannot do a UAC course in Pearse College, Dublin; and the actions that can be taken to allow this person to pursue this chosen course. [13874/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Controlled Drug Sales (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make cannabis liquid available by prescription for pain control similar to the UK where it is currently available on prescription [14115/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Part-Time Firefighters (14 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and the clarification he has given. I hope Gavin Burns and any other firefighter who has been refused jobseeker's payments will be able to use this reply to show deciding officers they are wrong to exclude them if they are genuinely seeking work. Mr. Burns has been genuinely seeking work. In one case he lost out on a job placement because he was...