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Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: What have they already paid? Taking these figures in isolation is absolutely useless. Will the Deputy inform us what they actually paid in tax already?

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy made out they did not pay.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: They would leave the country then.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak in this debate. The Bill represents a fundamental shift in the Irish political system. What is fiscal responsibility? By definition, "fiscal" means financial or pertaining to the treasury or revenue parts of a government. "Responsibility" refers to having a legal or moral obligation to or being accountable for something or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (10 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance service that is available to the population of Dublin North East; the modes of transport the service uses; the number of sub districts served, or in operation; the number of staff employed in the ambulance service in this region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43665/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is currently granting career breaks to nursing staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43785/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (16 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an internship allowance can be used to determine rent allowance or deducted from rent allowance by a council (details supplied) when other councils do not factor this into their rent allowance or differential rents scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44767/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of Baha - bone anchor hearing aids that were fitted to children during the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44504/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of Baha - bone anchor hearing aids that were fitted to children with Down syndrome, during the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44505/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (16 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of carer hours being paid for by the Health Service Executive either directly or indirectly; the number of carer client hours that will be allocated to clients; and if the figures for the carer hours will be broken down on a county basis in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44657/12]

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: The opening statement in the Private Members' motion refers to the rights of older people to live in dignity and independence and to age well in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. That is something all of us endorse. This year, 2012, is the European year for active ageing and solidarity between generations. Together with other member states, the Government has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the way the Expert Medical Group on Whooping Cough Vaccination set up in 1984 by the them Minister Mr. Barry Desmond TD arrived at its decision of reasonable doubt where symptoms of persistent screaming, collapse, convulsions, infantile spasms, paralyses and development of mental retardation were present in a child (details supplied), after their vaccination in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the reasonable doubt as determined in the case of a person (details supplied) on examination by the expert group on whooping cough vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45305/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the reason access to the medical records of a person (details supplied) complied during their stay at the Health Service Executive, Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45275/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the services that were provided to a person (details supplied) from the Health Service Executive Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, Delvin County Westmeath during their stay there from November 1981 to June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45283/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding legislation to provide a no fault vaccine injury compensation scheme as recommended in the Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on Childhood Immunisation dated July 2001; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45282/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health when the ex gratia payment scheme as recommended in the final draft report of the Vaccine Damage Steering Group, June 2009, will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45306/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide this Deputy with the vaccine history by name type, manufacturer and date of vaccination in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45323/12]

Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: I have spoken to people in my constituency who been unfortunate to have come across pyrite in their homes. We are all aware that it is not just about devastation to buildings, but also about devastation to people's lives. Tens of thousands of home owners are suffering the agony of having their homes either disintegrate around them from pyrite-induced heave or because they have become...

Topical Issue Debate: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (18 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: I will not be long-winded or engage in a long rant. The purpose behind the vocational training opportunities scheme, VTOS, and the back to education scheme is to take some of the thousands of people on the dole queue, who are unemployed and have no prospects, and give them an opportunity to re-educate themselves and reskill in an attempt to return to the workforce re-energised and with a new...