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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. Gerry Duffy and Mr. Jorge Arroita, directors at Murduff Wholesale Limited; and from safefood Dr. Cliodhna Foley-Nolan, director of human health and nutrition, and Ms Fiona Gilligan, director of marketing and communications. Some of us will know Ms Gilligan from "Operation Transformation". This is our latest meeting on our priority topic of tackling childhood obesity. We had a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of salaries paid by the National Assets Management Agency to its employees, in bands of €25,000; the number of employees in each band; the qualifications and experience of the employees in each band; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42484/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Finance the benchmarks and criteria used by the National Assets Management Agency in determining the salaries paid to its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42485/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (4 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the recommendations pertaining to the criminal justice system contained in the Fifth Report of the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, if he has consulted with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs; if there is a time frame for the implementation of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42482/12]

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes, if that is agreeable to the House.

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Despite being technical in nature, this Bill is very important. The thrust of the point I wanted to make in respect of the issue of psychotherapists and counsellors has been made by Deputy Neville. The Government should introduce an amendment to the Bill on Committee Stage because, speaking as someone who has been a director of adult education, who himself has gone through the process of...

Addiction Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: The heckling is getting to me.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: In the city of Cork, many people cannot obtain insurance due to flooding or subsidence-----

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Has the Government a plan? I wrote to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on this issue.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I am being heckled but it is a serious matter. There are people in the city of Cork who do not have house insurance or whose house insurance has increased by 150%-----

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Can the Government, through European or other means, introduce legislation regarding that point?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the assessment of catchments and streams and review of culverts in the Douglas area of County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41996/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the 1980 EU Insolvency Directive is applicable to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41357/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if the 1980 EU Insolvency Directive is applicable to the person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41368/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Write-Offs (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of commercial rates written off as bad debts over the past three years for each local authority; the total revenue stream lost to local authorities as a result of commercial rates written off as bad debts; his plans to supplement the shortfall of income to local authorities to minimise any adverse impact on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be a further survey of unfinished housing estates carried out by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42068/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (2 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on the implementation rates in respect of measures contained site resolution plans for unfinished housing estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42069/12]

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Sep 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: As chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, I pay tribute to the Minister, her officials and her team for bringing this Bill to the House to have a constitutional referendum to go before the people. I wholeheartedly commend Deputies Ó Caoláin and Troy and indeed Deputy McConalogue who, in the committee and in their work here in this House, have shown the...