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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: It will be difficult to confine myself to five minutes. I salute the witnesses for their passion for the area in which they work. It is so badly needed. Dr. Joanne McCarthy is right that we need to prioritise and focus on two or three key areas to make achievements. The education committee will absolutely look at that. Career guidance was mentioned by both Dr. Patricia McCarthy and Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I found it very hard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I am so sorry, but I must excuse myself in a minute to go to the Chamber and I do not want to disturb the flow so I will make my apologies now. To clarify, project search, a similar project, is the project we will introduce in September.

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: As Gandhi said, "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." It has also been said that without health, life is not life, that it is only a state of languor and suffering. In this motion we are dealing with patients who are trying to maintain good health or eradicate bad health, both physical and mental. In many ways we are dealing with very vulnerable people at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (8 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site (details supplied) will be considered as a new secondary school for south County Kildare. [19718/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (8 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a child (details supplied) who has not been able to secure a place in second level school for the past two years will be examined. [20152/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (8 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 264. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied). [19680/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Car Park Charges (8 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the amount earned from the car park of Tallaght hospital in 2017; and the amount for 2016. [20149/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Car Park Charges (8 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE car park income for 2017 for each hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20150/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 360. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 466 of 27 February 2018, if the two paediatric outpatient and urgent care centres in Connolly and Tallaght hospitals are still on schedule to open in mid-July 2018 and 2019. [20151/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (8 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused medication on a medical card. [20204/18]

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Three and a half years.

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I commend my colleagues Deputies Rabbitte, O'Callaghan and Jack Chambers on introducing this Bill, which is not before its time.It is absolutely shocking that Ireland has the third highest per capitarate of gambling losses in the world and that gambling losses in Ireland totalled €2.1 billion in 2016, which amounts to €4 million every day. Behind the 40,000 people in Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (9 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 176. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to introduce the opt-out process for organ donation; the process involved in the implementation of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20299/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (9 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is publishing a social care operational plan in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20300/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services Provision (9 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the implementation of recommendations from the mobile telephone and broadband task force report is assisting persons in County Kildare who experience poor mobile telephone and broadband coverage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20297/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (9 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next round of sports capital grants will open for sports organisations; if changes will be made to the scheme in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20298/18]

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: The Taoiseach talked about what is right for the economy. What we did in the Lemass era 50 years ago, in investing in education, is the right thing to do at every level, including preschool, special, primary, secondary, third level and further education, and apprenticeships and skills. I share the Taoiseach's ambition to have the best education system by 2026 but we have a long way to go....

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I welcome the news that Seán Lemass is featuring in the Taoiseach's' office. Perhaps some day we will have the opportunity to see it in there.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank the Taoiseach. Regarding pay parity for teachers, I know people who have been teaching for seven or eight years. They are still earning less than €37,000 which is the starting point for new teachers. We have a cohort of teachers who have made the sacrifices in the past seven or eight years. The Taoiseach is talking about not being able to do everything in one year. I accept...