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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (17 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 756. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of ambulance services in County Wicklow, including if there are periods for which there is a reduced service or areas where a service is not provided and when and where these occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9966/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (17 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 757. To ask the Minister for Health the navigational equipment provided to ambulance crews, including the nature of this technology, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9967/16]

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I congratulate the Minister of State on her appointment; it is a great honour I am sure and a great responsibility. I wish her every luck in the coming months and years. I welcome the opportunity to speak on mental health today and I acknowledge the importance the Chamber has placed on the topic. It has received several hours of debate with much input. Based on my past five years in this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand the provision of high-quality broadband to all primary schools, as is currently the case for secondary schools. [11340/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 565. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, with regard to the establishment of a taskforce on mobile telephones and broadband, he will ensure that the task force is chaired by and contains individuals independent of the current broadband or mobile regulatory regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11337/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 569. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will launch a process to measure blackspots where there is no broadband and no mobile coverage and to publish the results. [11342/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 570. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the rollout of broadband to rural areas, if his Department has conducted an impact assessment for rural businesses for the delay in some areas of broadband to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11394/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services Provision (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to evaluate the State funding required per metropolitan area network, MAN, to complete the business cases for the activation of each MAN which has not yet been used, assuming normal retail pricing for the end-users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11338/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony Services (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 567. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to conduct a once-off national drive test measurement of the State's coverage under the mobile telephone network in lieu of its current measurement of motorways and main roads only. [11339/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 568. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will launch a process to measure actual provision of broadband to patients in hospitals and to publish the results. [11341/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children and Family Services Provision (24 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 627. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on ensuring the provision of a comprehensive range of services for families throughout a child's life by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency; the priority she gives to this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11566/16]

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: The Social Democrats are proud signatories of this motion to abolish domestic water charges, end the commercial semi-State model and replace it with a public utility model and hold a referendum seeking to guarantee permanent public ownership of the water system. The idea of moving from 34 separate bodies to a national water entity is a good one and progress is being made on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (31 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 695. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the proposed site of the National Children’s Hospital, the net additional cost of transitioning the entirety of St. James’s Hospital, including the proposed maternity hospital, net of higher costs of building on the St. James’s site, net of the estimated costs associated with the building of the new maternity hospital on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Status (31 May 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 696. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the proposed national children’s hospital, the proposed timeline for completion of the hospital at St. James, and the proposed timeline for completion at the Connolly site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13158/16]

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all the parties and Independent Deputies who have signed up to the motion before us. There is much concern about the fact that we have a minority Government, and those concerns may, in time, prove to be well-founded. While I hope they do not, they may. However, the minority situation also provides the Dáil with a voice it has not had before. It provides the Dáil with the...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. We will share on the basis of four minutes, four minutes and two minutes, respectively. I would like to start by setting out what we would like for workers. There is a good deal of detail in and much merit to the motion. We want people to be able to work for a week and earn enough money to lead a dignified life, that they can work with security in their job, with certainty that...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I have three quick points on the terms of reference or the scope. I note on the agenda that whereas point b) is "Scrutiny of expenditure proposals and associated performance", a) is just "Scrutiny of revenue raising proposals". It may just be a question of semantics or maybe there is an assumption that all revenue gets raised and does not require associated performance, although recent...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: Therefore, we can have a discussion as to the total allocations. Obviously at a sectoral level the performance of that €13 billion is a matter for the health committee or whatever. My last question relates to the word "scrutiny" in respect of revenue raising and expenditure. Every one of us knows that it is repugnant to the Constitution for any non-Minister to make any amendment...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I am very happy to get the legal opinion, but there is a question for us as to whether we should have consideration of the issue within our terms of reference. My understanding is that it actually would require a change to the Constitution, but regardless of that, it is one of the single biggest impediments to the Oireachtas engaging with money Bills, rather than just scrutinising them.

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: If we are to have full sustainable employment in Ireland, I suggest to the Minister that we need to do the following in this Dáil term. First, we need to increase investment in business-critical infrastructure, particularly broadband and transport. Second, we need to increase investment in our education system, coupled with serious reforms at secondary and tertiary levels. Third, we...