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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Help Service Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. He mentioned 2019 to 2020. I understand that the additional hours in the budget are for 2020. If he is true to his reply, no extra home help hours are becoming available. We are into the last five weeks of this year and there is a crisis as people wait for home help hours. Families are waiting for home help packages and are making decisions...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Help Service Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I acknowledge what the Minister and Minister of State have said on the particular case. I will continue to raise this in any forum that I can to try to get a result for that particular person and the family. The wider issue is that it is almost as if we are working in silos. The home help budget and acute hospital care budget are there. If we were able to manage it better to try to make...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the proposed VAT rate for food supplements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48558/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Insurance Costs (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to raise on the Topical Issue debate the issue of insurance reform and the impact of the cost of insurance to businesses. I work closely with the Business Insurance Reform Group, which is led by Michael Horgan in Newmarket and Declan Ryan from Kenmare in County Kerry. They have put in a great deal of work along with other groups to bring...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Insurance Costs (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I was going to note that the Minister of State's reply did not address the issue of the European Commission's investigation. We need to know what has happened with that investigation, where it is at and when its results will be published on the public record. The Minister of State spoke of the benchmarking of awards and the percentage of difference involved. He also referred to the book...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 5% cut in the CAP budget was discussed at the October 2019 agri-fish Council meeting; and if he made a contribution to the debate to outline his position. [43554/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: Tagrisso is a drug that has been put up for reimbursement and a lot of pressure has been put on in that regard. The recommendation was made through the various channels in July of this year that this be reimbursed. I know of a patient - a very ill person - waiting for this drug. Has anything happened since that recommendation was made in July by the body recommending that it be reimbursed?...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 90. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she or her officials have written to her US counterpart expressing concern regarding changing tariffs on food products from Ireland. [41942/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I raise the issue of the appointment of a consultant psychiatrist for the deaf community in the southern region. The position has been vacant for some time. Social workers who are dealing with the deaf community have implored me to use whatever offices I can to get a consultant psychiatrist appointed for the deaf community in the south. Does the Taoiseach or Government have any plans to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: An awful lot of people are mindful of security in their homes at the moment. Companies are putting in monitored alarms but some of them face major issues installing monitored alarms in areas with poor mobile phone coverage. Has this been brought to the attention of the Government? Installers are coming in and checking what level it is at between one and 30. It must be at 11 before they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Citizens' Assembly will meet to discuss gender equality. [48829/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on Brexit, Foreign and European Affairs has met to date in 2019. [51531/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: The home tuition issue comes under the bogus self-employment legislation. There is an issue for teachers who are appointed to home tuition for children who cannot attend school. One arm of the State, the Revenue Commissioners, has deemed them as employees of the State. According to the scope section of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, they are self-employed....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure last met. [49129/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on infrastructure has met to date in 2019. [51535/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the tender for the construction of the new school in Kanturk, County Cork, has been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52425/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: St. Joseph's Foundation in Charleville is a section 39 organisation which in essence provides State services for people with intellectual disabilities. It is a valuable service to users right across south Limerick and north Cork. As I have raised directly with the Taoiseach several times, the foundation's insurance premium has gone for roughly €120,000 three years ago to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if the policy discussions on drug gangs take place at the Cabinet committee on social policy and public services or the Cabinet committee on security. [50087/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he met with the Prime Minister of Finland at the December 2019 European Council meeting. [52983/19]

Section 39 Organisations: Motion [Private Members] (17 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I am delighted to support the motion. This issue has been going on for some time. Section 39 organisations are doing unbelievable work throughout the country. I refer specifically to St. Joseph's in Charleville, which the Minister of State visited with me in January 2017. One of the issues outlined at the time was the escalating cost of insurance, a matter I raised earlier on the Order of...