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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report of the Agriculture Appeals Act Review Committee: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: Since there are no further questions I thank Dr. Smyth and Ms O'Connell for appearing before the committee today. I am sure they understand our interest in this particular issue. We look forward to engaging with the process as it moves along and we hope that happens as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an increase to the primary school capitation grant will be considered further to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29502/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service Staff (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the matter of the extension of the retirement age of retained fire fighters; if an expert review panel will be established to review the retirement age anomaly (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29609/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: Let me interrupt as I wish to seek clarification on the €250 million figure. The initial cost of the buildings was €100 million which I understand was the tendering price and of which €87 million has been spent so far. It is like buying a car by hire purchase. The delegates should correct me if I am wrong, but the Government will start to pay once the contract has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: There will be an investment of €100 million and the cost will be €250 million over 25 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: I agree with what Deputy Burton and others have said. There are two issues. First, there is no doubt the subcontractors who are at the end of the supply chain must be looked after. The first question is how that will be done in the short term. The Construction Contracts Act went through the House a few years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: I am open to correction but my understanding is that PPPs are excluded from the legislation. If that is the situation it must be addressed going forward given the current situation and the fact that other situations could arise and it is very important to plan for them. Ms Kelly mentioned that Sammon had a bad name for many years and everybody knows about that. There could be another...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: On the certification issue, it is my understanding that the person who did the work, be it steel or concrete work, is the only person who could actually certify the work. Nobody else could come in. If I did a job for the Chairman, he did not pay me and got Senator Murnane O'Connor to come in and do it and I was not paid, that would not be right. I would have to be the one certifying the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: The long and the short of the discussions we are having here, and I would imagine everybody is on the same page, concerns how to get the subcontractors the money they are owed. That is the question. As a committee, we would not want to give some subcontractors leaving here today a false sense of security that they are going to get paid in a week's or a month's time. This committee must...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding general practitioners charging medical card holders for blood tests; and if persons are not required to pay for the service, the way in which payments already made will be refunded. [30048/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (10 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 679. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the review of the fair deal pricing mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30903/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (10 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 680. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce an independent appeals process under the fair deal scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30904/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (10 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 681. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the position of the role of healthcare assistants from the ineligible categories of employment for employment permits list and their removal from this list on a controlled basis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30905/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 682. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the decision not to implement a full courier service for collection of blood samples from general practitioner surgeries (details supplied) in County Carlow; the reason this is not being considered; the counties which do not have the facility in which blood and samples for laboratory testing are not collected directly from a surgery; and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 749. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a broadband service will be available in Ballydarton, Fenagh, County Carlow. [30049/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Election of Chairman (11 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: That will never-----

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Subsidies (12 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 14. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts he is making with his EU colleagues to secure an increase in the CAP budget post 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31159/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (12 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 31. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quantity of fodder imported under import scheme in 2018; the way in which this compares with a similar scheme in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31158/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (12 Jul 2018)

Pat Deering: 484. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 3 July 2018, when he expects this to take place; and when the vaccine will be made available to teenage boys [32244/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Pat Deering: I welcome everyone to the meeting. Apologies have been received from Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy and Senator Tim Lombard. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to ensure that mobile phones are turned off. Today's meeting is being held to discuss issues concerning the ongoing fodder shortages and the drought issues being experienced in farming communities in...