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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Programme for Government Initiatives (2 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: The review of adult and further education is referenced in the Programme for a Partnership Government as something that would be undertaken by the Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills. The inclusion of the review on the agenda of the Committee and its timing will be determined through consultation with the Committee.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (2 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: The data requested by the Deputy is set out in the tables. At this stage, it is not possible to give an accurate breakdown of the forecast population in new apprenticeships on a sectoral basis. The Apprenticeship Council is continuing to work with consortia in developing a wide variety of proposals in various sectors of the economy made through the first call for proposals. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (2 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have applied for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession, in tabular form in 2016; the number of successful applications; the number of unsuccessful applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4971/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (2 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: 238. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a board to deal with the registration of podiatry and chiropody professionals under the umbrella of CORU; his views on the fact that professionals working in this sector wish to have it brought into line with other health care professions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4972/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (7 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: The Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) programme is one of a number of options made available by my Department for Senior Cycle students which schools can choose from, based on the education needs and interests of their student. The LCA is a two-year programme designed for those students who do not wish to proceed directly to higher education or for those whose needs, aptitudes and learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 117, 118, 129, 130, 142 and 145 together. My Department has overall responsibility for policy development for education and training provision across the economy including the hospitality and tourism sector. There are no plans to re-establish a dedicated training organisation for the sector, but rather to deliver the required education and training through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million km annually. In general, under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: I will be very brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: I do not mind. I will wait; there is no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: Was I in line to ask this question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: I am okay with going to Dr. Herity to answers questions first and then coming back to me. That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: I will be very brief. Some of the questions will require a "yes" or "no" answer. Did the review take into account the clinical risk and safety? Is it not general practice that the clinical safety of the patient is paramount in the review? Does Dr. Herity believe the recommendations of the report would have been different if clinical risk and safety were explicitly included in the terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: This is incredible and Deputy Cullinane is correct. It is incredible to think there would be people in other parts of the south east - for example, in Clonmel, Wexford, Kilkenny and so on - that Dr. Herity would have known would have been coming to perform procedures in University Hospital Waterford and would have been directed by the consultants there. It is also incredible that Dr. Herity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: It is disappointing that Dr. Herity did not answer that question straightforwardly. The very first question I asked him was whether the review took into account clinical risk and safety and if it is general practice that the clinical safety of the patient should be paramount in the reviews. Does he accept that the volume of complex procedures in the part-time single cath lab is a point of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: I do not think there is practicality in that answer in the sense that if a person is living in Clonmel or Wexford, he or she will automatically consider whether he or she will go to Dublin or go to Cork. Is it not a fact that there would be a particular volume of people who will not go to Waterford because they know that they cannot be seen after 5 p.m. or on weekends?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: Based on Dr. Herity's statistics, I ask him again, as he still has not answered, whether he was aware of the figures for referrals after hours? Was he given a list? Did he know what they were after 5 p.m.? Did he know the number of people that were being transferred to other hospitals on a regular basis or a weekly basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: On a monthly basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: Does he have those figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: I have it here myself. It is a big difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: It is not.