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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I will come back to the Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I must apologise as I have to attend another meeting so I ask Deputy Conway to take the Chair. Before I go I acknowledge an intern in the Visitors Gallery from the United States of America, who will spend a semester here. I wish him well in his stay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has had the benefit of having questioned the Minister in the Dáil Chamber at 9.30 a.m., thus facilitating him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: That might not necessarily be the right page to be on, of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, witnesses and those present in the Gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting of our proceedings. Today's meeting is our first formal and official engagement with Mr. Gordon Jeyes in his capacity as chief executive of the Child and Family Agency. I thank Mr. Jeyes for his engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas Eligibility (25 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if level 6 courses offered by institutes of technology qualify as eligible courses for participation in the student bond system for the purposes of obtaining a visa to study here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36322/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (25 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the availability of Fampyra; if a new application in respect of the drug has been submitted to the National Centre for Pharmaco-economics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36212/14]

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The Constitutional Convention, of which I was a member, successfully concluded its deliberations. There are a number of outstanding reports to be debated in the House and to which the Government must respond. Will the Chief Whip, on behalf of the Government, give us a date for a debate because it is important we bring the work of the Constitutional Convention to finality in this House?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, and congratulate her on her reappointment. I welcome our friends from Iran to the House and thank them for being here. It is very important that we build on democracy throughout the world and I hope we can forge new friendships and mutually benefit each other in the pursuit of democracy on the world stage. Today is an extraordinary day because...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: On a serious level, the quality and availability of psychotherapy and counselling is not something we can leave to chance. We must avoid the five-eighth merchant setting up an operation which could do more harm than good. This concern has been expressed by many people at meetings of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children and on the floor of the House. We must consider the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Numeracy Levels (23 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has carried out an assessment of the success rates of the maths recovery programme; the improvements in numeracy achieved by the programme. [35904/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Numeracy Levels (23 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reinstate maths recovery training places for classroom, learning support and resource teachers in DEIS schools. [35905/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (23 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 548. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will, as part of the national tourism policy, designate of Cork Airport as a convention and conference gateway for business tourism, as such a move would complement the Government’s decision to support and part fund the development of an event centre in Cork. [35906/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (23 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 549. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include as part of the national tourism policy the creation of a specific tourism marketing fund for new South of Ireland connectivity and inbound tourism growth. [35907/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (23 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will, as part of the national tourism policy, develop a more integrated approach to inbound tourism marketing and co-ordination of tourism development in the south west region, including references to developing structures around tourism co-ordination to be aligned and revised, set specific bednight growth targets by market to be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (23 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will, as part of the national tourism policy, include designation and marketing support of Cork Airport as a gateway to the Wild Atlantic Way and the emerging Fáilte Ireland South East Heritage Trail. [35909/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (23 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 552. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include as part of the national tourism policy a stronger focus on development of strategic transport links to and from Cork Airport [35910/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (18 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 169. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assessed benefits of the free preschool year; if, as part of the new early years strategy, he will consider implementing a second free preschool year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35002/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (18 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the resources allocated for the provision of respite services for people with intellectual disabilities; the number of spaces available for adults and children in each county; the impact that Health Information and Quality Authority guidelines on using different facilities for adults and children has had on the provision of respite services; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Sep 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a proposal to facilitate patients with hereditary hemochromatosis to undergo phlebotomy treatment in GP practices, thereby reducing the workload on acute hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34997/14]