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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (25 Sep 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of an additional five hours per week for the preschool year. [36267/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (25 Sep 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of an additional free preschool year. [36268/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 83. To ask the Minister for Health the way he proposes to reduce waiting times for outpatients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36537/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 98. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be put in place to tackle the difficulties in the provision of child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36538/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 589. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons with a water softener system in place at their property will receive an increased allowance in their water allocation as a result of costs they have incurred to improve the quality of their water supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37128/14]

Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: There are three Bills emanating from the Department of Defence which appear on the B and C lists of the legislative programme - namely, Nos. 36, 66 and 67. When will the Bills be brought before the House? Will any of them address the very serious concerns expressed at the PDFORRA conference in the last 24 hours? We are now hearing reports that 20% of members of the Defence Forces are...

Sixth Report of the Constitutional Convention - Blasphemy: Statements (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Ós rud gurb é seo an chéad uair dom bheith anseo agus an tAire Stáit nua i láthair, ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis as ucht a cheapacháin. Tá súil agam go n-éireoidh go geal leis ina chuid oibre. I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this issue and on the progressive work of the Constitutional...

Sixth Report of the Constitutional Convention - Blasphemy: Statements (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Are you expecting a vacancy?

Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: In the light of the fact that the Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe, is sitting beside the Tánaiste, I want to return to the issue of legislation promised in the Department of Defence included in the B and C lists. Two Defence (Amendment) Bills are listed at Nos. 36 and 65. I refer to that legislation in the light of the fact that in the past two days reports from the PDFORRA...

Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Will the items of legislation mentioned address these major shortcomings? The Tánaiste made reference to the memorandum from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, on the appointment of members to State boards. When the Government was established, it set out various procedures and protocols to be followed in the filling of State board vacancies, one of...

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I was not going to take part in this debate but, having listened to previous contributions, I decided to change my decision in that regard. I am conscious of what was stated in this House and at meetings of the old Eastern Health Board - on which the Minister and I both soldiered - by our colleague, former Deputy Charlie O'Connor, to the effect that our political views and positions are...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Appointments to State Boards (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 213. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to set out the selection process for appointments to boards of statutory bodies under her aegis; the process under which this selection is carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37591/14]

Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No. 11 on the A list is the promised planning and development Bill. When will it be published and will it address the issues raised by the chief executive of the Housing Agency in the past week? He was quoted as proposing that the size of apartments and local authority dwellings should be reduced.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry Promotion (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 393. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the percentage of funds loaned to production companies by the Irish Film Board in each of the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 that were returned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39047/14]

Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have in excess of 40,000 people in the country living with dementia. I understand from the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, that the number will more than treble between now and 2041 when we can expect to have 132,000 people living with that particular condition. In April 2013 the Government appointed an advisory group to work on a national dementia strategy. How far has the...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is a very important issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gender Balance (22 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is committed to gender equality on State boards under her remit; the reason the general scheme of the National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2014 does not include a strict gender guideline with regard to board appointments; her views that her direction over that institution as envisaged in the Bill is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gender Balance (22 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am afraid that my first question relates to national cultural institutions and the boards thereof, but I suspect the Minister has heard enough about such institutions and their boards to last her a lifetime. Nonetheless, I raise the very serious and important matter of the proposed legislation pertaining to the National Concert Hall, NCH, and in particular, the lack of a proposal for clear...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gender Balance (22 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I welcome the fact that the Minister has indicated a willingness to consider further the legislation as proposed. What we have before us at present states quite clearly that the Minister will "endeavour, to the greatest extent practicable" to achieve an equal balance between men and women on the NCH board. The phrase "endeavour, to the greatest extent practicable" has no legislative...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gender Balance (22 Oct 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Regrettably, what the Minister is saying to us today and what the general scheme of the Bill is saying are not one and the same thing. Why would the Minister want to be in a position to direct the board of the NCH? That the current or any future Minister should be in a position to direct the activities of the board is bizarre in the extreme. Indeed, it is the antithesis of how a government...