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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

John Curran: Before calling on the Minister to reply, I have one or two brief comments. I will not go over all the comments that were made. The Minister said: "The ongoing fall in the live register is freeing up resources that we need to meet additional demand in other areas..." On a no-change basis, comparing 2016 to 2015, what additional funding would that free up, given the decline of numbers in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

John Curran: Deputy Brady has one brief point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

John Curran: That was a real politician's answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

John Curran: I asked what the total anticipated saving for next year would be on a no-change basis. The Minister gave me a figure per 1,000 drop in the live register. He did not tell me what he anticipated the unemployment level would drop to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

John Curran: I did not mean to throw out an unfair question to the Minister, but he has invited this committee to make suggestions. He has been putting out a lot of figures; he said, for example, that if the fuel allowance were to go up by a certain figure it would yield €10 million, and mentioned that, of the fiscal space of €1 billion, €660 million would be for spending. He also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

John Curran: That is why I asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

John Curran: Will the Minister answer Deputy Brady's question first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

John Curran: I thank the Minister and his colleagues for attending today. We had a very direct, frank and informative meeting. I expect that the Minister will hear further from members of this committee in advance of budget day. The information supplied by the Minister is helpful to us. I hope that the input of members and the issues they raised will go some way towards informing some of the decisions...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 167. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are currently accommodated in direct provision, and those who have been for more than one, two, three and five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25943/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: DNA Database (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 168. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of samples from persons that are on the national DNA database to date since its establishment; the number of convictions secured based on the use of evidence from the database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25945/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the gambling control Bill; if this Bill will have provision to deal with the issue of excessive advertising and promotion by online betting and bookmakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25947/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Regulation (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 313. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out a clear and definite time line for the working group on motor insurance (details supplied) to complete its work and present its findings; if he will provide a full list of the meetings that have taken place to date with the various stakeholders; the progress being made by the groups; if the working group proposes taking public...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that Travellers are not evicted from Traveller specific sites until alternative accommodation is provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25950/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Offices (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 790. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will re-examine a decision made by his Department not to open and establish a social protection office in Lucan, County Dublin (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25952/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 1031. To ask the Minister for Health to provide transport for a person (details supplied) to attend work in a placement in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24451/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 1396. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to identify alternative sites for the provision of a primary care centre either by direct provision or by public private partnership since the decision by An Bord Pleanála in April 2016 to refuse permission for a PCC in Lucan, County Dublin; if the HSE has advertised looking for proposals; the direct steps being taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 1397. To ask the Minister for Health the consultative process being undertaken with regard to the development of a new national drugs strategy; the consultative meetings to date; the progress to date; if there will be new and additional funding made available to actively promote a national awareness and prevention campaign similar in scale to the national road safety campaigns of the past ten...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 1398. To ask the Minister for Health if the approval sought by CHO7 management within the context of the pay bill management framework has been granted to fill four vacant dental posts in a clinic (details supplied); if he will review this urgently to ensure the filling of the dental vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25949/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 1399. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for funding made by an organisation (details supplied) in Lucan, County Dublin to the HSE will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25956/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (16 Sep 2016)

John Curran: 1451. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances under which a person (details supplied) has remained in St. Vincent’s Hospital; the reason the hospital has refused to engage with members of their family stating that they have been made a ward of court when this is not the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26202/16]