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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (8 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will consider an application for funding under the Dormant Accounts Fund 2010 for establishment of new youth cafe facilities for Limerick Youth Service (details supplied). [49342/12]

Tax Transparency Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to speak on, and support, the Bill. I congratulate Deputy Eoghan Murphy on his work. Everyone alluded to the advantage of transparency in respect of taxes. It is very important but I also wish to deal with the educational side of the matter so that the public becomes aware of how pressure comes on for the allocation of taxation to different areas. Thankfully,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I want to give the background to why amendment No. 1 was not included in the first place. This was debated at length during the debate on the 2004 Bill where an amendment was proposed by former Deputy McManus and seconded by me. The then Minister of State, Mr. Tim O'Malley, was supportive of it and would have included it only that the various organisations were in disagreement about whether...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I do not doubt the Minister's bona fides, but Ministers have been giving me similar assurances for eight years. Implementation of the 2005 Act was to be self-financing through charges for registration and certification. We are not asking the Minister to set up a registration board before his work has been completed, but the Bill offers him the ability to make a decision on it. Nothing was...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: In 2010 the Fine Gael Front Bench agreed to introduce this amendment and a Private Members' Bill was published in the name of the party on 1 October 2010. There was unanimous support for the amendment.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: Would the Minister be able to do so prior to Report Stage?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: Psychological therapist or counsellor.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: In 2008 a committed Minister of State, John Moloney, made the very same commitments as the Minister, but the system frustrated him. It has not happened for five years. How can I have confidence the system will do it before 2014?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: Why was it not asked?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I agree on the language issue. I have come across a psychiatrist who did not have proper language skills. Communication in the psychiatric profession is vital. I have heard complaints about patients and families who hardly understood what a psychiatrist was saying.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (13 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49399/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (13 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if payment under the criminal injuries compensation tribunal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49790/12]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I wish to share time with Deputy English.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Bill. Difficulties in the area of risk equalisation have arisen since 2005. I was a member of the Joint Committee on Health and Children during that period and it was extremely frustrating that progress could not be made. I raise another issue that was mentioned, namely, that private beds in public hospitals should be paid for 100% by patients....

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I will leave it at that so in order to allow Deputy English to make his contribution.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Health his policy for dealing with persons who require coronary care over the week ends in the mid west area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51450/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding (20 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51460/12]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus cuirim fáilte roimh Bille um Choimisiún Thithe an Oireachtas (Leasú) 2012. Is léir go bhfuil Bille ciallmhar os ár gcomhair. Beidh seirbhís lárnach ar fáil agus ní bheidh easaontas nó amhras faoin gcaighdeán. Tá an ceart ar fad aige gur cóir go mbeadh foinse amháin ann...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Training Programmes (27 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding documentation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [52344/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (27 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [52494/12]