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Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Bill seeks to provide for the establishment, management and oversight of a DNA database system, which will be used in criminal investigations and also to assist in finding missing persons and identifying unknown persons. The Bill provides for the taking of samples for the purpose of the DNA database system. It also seeks to replace the existing statutory and common law arrangements for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I believe the Minister and the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, will launch a three-year media campaign on obesity. Will the Minister elaborate on this?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect the publication of the Noise Nuisance Bill, which is to extend and improve the power available to enforcement authorities to prevent, reduce and abate noise nuisance by allowing for on-the-spot fines and providing for mediation between neighbours?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Budget 2014 has been crafted in as fair a manner as possible, which will allow us to continue to make progress in getting people back to work. Since coming to office, the Government has been focusing on our biggest challenge, which is getting people off the live register and back into the workforce. These efforts are starting to bear fruit, with the unemployment rate falling for the past 15...

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: A cochlear implant is a highly sophisticated device which provides access to sound for people with severe to profound hearing loss. The surgical implant device, when coupled with an external processor, can provide access to speech and everyday sound to aid or improve communication ability. Beaumont Hospital is the centre for the delivery of Ireland's national cochlear implant programme, but...

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Universal newborn hearing screening, UNHS, is in place in the HSE south, Dublin mid-Leinster and Dublin north east regions. HSE west has been going live throughout 2013, with UNHS already rolled out in Letterkenny and at Sligo General Hospital. Front-line audiology staff are currently being recruited to support the newborn hearing screening programme. A procurement exercise for the...

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: A memorandum of understanding has been developed between Deafhear, HSE audiology, HSE speech and language therapy, the Beaumont Hospital cochlear implant team and visiting teacher services to ensure that all groups are working together to provide services to people with hearing impairment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Almost 2 million of the population, or 43%, are covered either by a medical card or a GP visit card. As Mr. O'Brien stated, there has been a 74% increase since 2005. The question I came with today relates to the hardship issue. On grounds of hardship, the HSE can apply discretion and grant a medical card. Mr. O'Brien stated here that, as of 1 October 2013, 52,733 medical cards were issued...

Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect the publication of the radiological protection Bill? This will put in place the legislative basis required for the merger of the RPI with the EPA and to ensure that Irish legislation is compatible with the terms of the convention on physical protection of nuclear material and nuclear facilities, and that Ireland may ratify this convention.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect the criminal justice (corruption) Bill to be published? It is to consolidate and reform all the relevant legislation - the Prevention of Corruption Acts 1889 to 2010 - in one statute.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Bill dissolves 80 town councils which together account for 744 councillors and provides for the establishment by ministerial order of municipal districts to cover the entire territory of the State bar Dublin. This has the effect of reducing the overall number of councillors in the State from 1,627 to 949 while increasing the number of county councillors from 883 to 949. Section 15 sets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I wish to put on the record what a wonderful job palliative care teams do as I experienced with my late father and my mother at present. I also want to put on record what a wonderful job the hospices do. Ms Foley stated €73 million is spent on specialist palliative care but it is unplanned and uncoordinated. Will she elaborate on this? It is a service that is doing a fantastic job...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect publication of the civil registration (amendment) Bill, the purpose of which is to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 following a review of its operations? The Bill will make provision for the compulsory registration of fathers' names on birth certificates, validation of embassy marriages and civil partnerships, the prevention of marriages of convenience and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Ms Burke's comments have confused me a little. Did Ms Burke say that a person who needs a nurse to look after him or her at night, and do everything else, is not covered under the fair deal scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Is Ms Burke saying that the nursing home looks after the patient out of its own pocket?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: If a resident's condition gets extremely bad, will a GP transfer him or her to hospital?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I would like to ask Ms Tan-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Chair did not let me in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When a public health nurse visits a patient and recommends that he or she needs one hour of care a day seven days a week and that patient receives just half an hour of care five days a week, how far can the public health nurse go in trying to look after that patient? I agree with Mr. Martin that early intervention is important. In recent years I have been reading in the newspapers about...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect the adoption (tracing and information) Bill to provide for an information and tracing service for applicants seeking information on adoptions on a statutory basis to be published?