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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (17 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the overall cost annually to the HSE for treating illnesses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2105/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 25 September 2018, the reason a person (details supplied) has not received the third stage of the part unwinding of the public service pension reduction, PSPR, as part of pension restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2394/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a risk assessment on the safety of the public was conducted prior to the operation of the recent deer cull in the Phoenix Park overseen by the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2612/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the precautions undertaken by his Department and the OPW to safeguard the public and to alert the public that firearms would be used as part of the recent deer cull in the Phoenix Park overseen by the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2613/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if An Garda Siochána was informed in advance of the operation of the recent deer cull in the Phoenix Park overseen by the OPW and that firearms would be discharged as part of the operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2614/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the considerations given to animal welfare in relation to the recent deer cull in the Phoenix Park overseen by the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2615/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 579. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the shortage of available childcare services especially in the Dublin 15 area (details supplied); the efforts underway to address same; the advice for parents that cannot secure a place in a childcare service for their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2304/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks Closures (24 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 69. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount paid to private security firms for the provision of security services by the Defence Forces in each of the past three years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3504/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Meetings (24 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 70. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of meetings his Department had with the representative associations regarding the working time directive 2003; the dates on which they occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3533/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (24 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the joint submission to the Public Service Pay Commission from the Department of Defence and military authorities underwent changes after it was sent to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; if so, the nature of the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3532/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: Page 24 of the programme for Government states that the Government will request NAMA to review its business plans to encourage it to be more ambitious in the area of housing delivery. It is something of which NAMA always reminds us in its annual report. Last week a receiver notified residents in Riverwood Hall in Carpenterstown that they would be evicted, that is, nine households and up to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (29 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 104. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he plans to award medals recommended for 29 men for bravery in action by a person (details supplied) to the veterans still living and posthumously to those deceased who served during the siege of Jadotville in 1961; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3988/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns of parents of children and staff at a school (details supplied) regarding accommodation for children enrolling in the school in September 2019; the measures that will be put in place to address these concerns; if the forward planning section of his Department will engage with the school in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (29 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS general practitioners in Dublin 15; the number of GMS general practitioners per CHO group nationally; the breakdown by population in this regard; the number of public health nurses in each CHO group nationally; the breakdown by population in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4071/19]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, lines 20 and 21, to delete "have sufficient mental or intellectual capacity to serve as a juror" and substitute "possess the decision-making capacity to exercise the functions of a member of a jury". The Bill states that a person who does not, in the opinion of the court, have "sufficient mental or intellectual capacity to serve as a juror" would not be...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: It happens frequently on Committee Stage of various Bills that members are given a commitment about Report Stage. Would it not be better to insert something now that the Minister of State is potentially willing to accept on Report Stage and for him then to come back with the legal advice on Report Stage and propose an amendment to delete it, if that is his advice? If he is willing to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: May I make a point?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: I will support the amendment if it is pressed. The Government is overburdened with working groups, which delay reform across many areas of disability. In many cases, it is bureaucracy talking to bureaucracy. This is a simple amendment to direct local authorities to do what they should do anyway. It would have positive effects for those who need access. I do not know why a working group...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 3 of Referendum Act 1998 3. Section 3 of the Referendum Act 1998 is amended by the substitution of the following for subsection (1): "(1) The Commission shall have, in addition to any functions conferred on it by any other provision of this Act, the following principal functions in...