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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (12 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons presenting as homeless in County Mayo in each of the past five years since 2014. [46112/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (12 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by Mayo County Council on emergency accommodation in each year since 2014. [46113/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: That was promised in June and I am not exaggerating the impact it is having on a young girl in my constituency, Grace O'Malley. I cannot put into words how upset her mother is. The latest update which they received last week from Mona Baker, chief executive officer of Temple Street Children's University Hospital, is that because Grace has a spinal rod in her back, she is a complex case and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: It will be next year before Grace receives her treatment, which was promised in June. This issue needs to be sorted and the family cannot wait any longer.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: Why was it not put in place in June?

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: It is 20 years old.

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: I thank Deputy O'Loughlin for sharing time. There is consensus on several issues. We all accept we have international possibilities, we all feel genuinely for people coming here seeking refuge and we all know it is a difficult task and that there not an easy alternative to direct provision, so we agree on those things. In particular, I want to raise with the Minister of State and put on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (13 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women that applied for reimbursement under the cross-border directive having undergone treatment for endometriosis abroad; and the number of applications approved and refused, respectively. [46784/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. What criteria are the Department looking at with regard to the seasonal work permits? As for the labour market needs test, I note the Department is taking out the detail as to what is required to do that test but that employers still have to do the test. How do the witnesses envisage that will be carried out? How will the Department regulate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: I agree.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State but we expected the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, to appear in the Chamber to answer questions from me and Deputies Curran and Ó Caoláin. 5 o’clock He has been on notice since Tuesday when this Topical Issue matter was first submitted. It was a reserved Topical Issue matter yesterday. I live on the other side of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: With all due respect, why is the Minister of State here to tell us what the Minister, Deputy Harris, has been advised? Surely he should be here to tell us what he has been advised. The suggestion that administering the drug requires complex service arrangements is not new. I was told this many months ago by the children waiting for this drug, who knew all of this in advance. We knew...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: Yes, there is nothing going on.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle, is the Minister required even to explain as to why somebody is here to deputise for him or are Members of this House supposed to just accept when somebody just does not bother to turn up? We are all here, is that-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: The lack of an answer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: Between 2014 and 2019, we have seen a 1,700% increase in the numbers of people presenting as homeless in Mayo. A problem that never existed in the area now very much does. We met 47% of our home-building target last year. Mayo built just 38 homes and acquired just 15 last year. In the first six months of this year, 15 homes were built and only ten acquired. We can all agree that this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: That is not what the council is saying. Funding is not-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: It is the Department.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: That is a good question.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (19 Nov 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if either the joint consultative working group or the specialised committee has been established regarding the revised protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland in the withdrawal agreement (details supplied); if so, the membership of the working group and the specialised committee; if other relevant information will be provided; and if he...