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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Effects of Violence: Discussion with Families of the Disappeared, WAVE Trauma Centre and Peace Factory (12 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I am pleased to welcome from the WAVE Trauma Centre, Ms Sandra Peake, Ms Mary McCallan and Mr. Dennis Godfrey; from the Families of the Disappeared, Ms Anne Morgan and Mr. Sean Megraw; and from the Peace Factory, Ms Denise Mullen Fox, Mr. Peter Devlin and Mr. Eugene Reavey. The committee is looking forward to the groups’ contributions. We are aware that we are working within a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Effects of Violence: Discussion with Families of the Disappeared, WAVE Trauma Centre and Peace Factory (12 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank Ms McCallan. I call Ms Anne Morgan to make her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Effects of Violence: Discussion with Families of the Disappeared, WAVE Trauma Centre and Peace Factory (12 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank Ms Morgan. I call on Ms Denise Mullen Fox to make her contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Effects of Violence: Discussion with Families of the Disappeared, WAVE Trauma Centre and Peace Factory (12 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank Ms Mullen Fox. I shall open the debate to Members and commence by calling Deputies Brendan Smith and Frank Feighan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Effects of Violence: Discussion with Families of the Disappeared, WAVE Trauma Centre and Peace Factory (12 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank Deputy Smith. I call Deputy Frank Feighan and he shall be followed by Deputy Martin Ferris.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Effects of Violence: Discussion with Families of the Disappeared, WAVE Trauma Centre and Peace Factory (12 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I will hand back to the delegation, starting with Ms Peake.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Effects of Violence: Discussion with Families of the Disappeared, WAVE Trauma Centre and Peace Factory (12 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: Does Ms Mullen Fox wish to add anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Effects of Violence: Discussion with Families of the Disappeared, WAVE Trauma Centre and Peace Factory (12 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank witnesses and members for their input. There was some discussion around the role of this committee. Deputy Wall summed it up well in pointing out that we are trying to reach out as best we can, which includes our visits to Belfast and Dungannon and to Derry in the new year. We intend to continue that engagement. We are absolutely delighted to be able to reach out to the witnesses...

Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Provision (18 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I am raising this issue on behalf of some parents who have boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare disease that affects approximately 100 boys in Ireland. Before I discuss the specific circumstances of the parents on whose behalf I am speaking, I wish to put on record the good work and good service delivery at the Central Remedial Clinic, CRC, in respect of various sectors. Some...

Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Provision (18 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Minister of State for her reply and commitment to try to facilitate a meeting between the new director of the CRC and the dozen or more families concerned. Several aspects of her response are encouraging, particularly the reference to the development of care pathways, in co-operation with European reference centres, for those ultra rare disorders for which there is insufficient...

Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Provision (18 Dec 2013)

Joe McHugh: It will change the way services are delivered in Europe. The parents of the children to whom I refer will continue to travel to Newcastle, regardless of when the directive is transposed. They were a little sore when the E112 forms were withdrawn, but I hope changes will happen early next year in that regard. Sometimes policy makers and politicians sit around the table and make decisions in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: North South Ministerial Council (15 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: 79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of all formal North-South meetings through the North South Ministerial Council, formal engagements between the Minister for Foreign Affairs and formal engagements by An Taoiseach on North-South issues; if he will further provide details of bilateral meetings on an east-west basis for the year...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the total fund in insurance companies with respect to the approved minimum retirement fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1627/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Participation (15 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the possibility of encouraging open days for prospective A-level students from Northern Ireland at Southern Irish universities; if he has considered promoting career libraries in secondary schools here to inform leaving certificate students of courses on offer in Northern universities; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Jobs Data (15 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: 330. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs that have been created in County Donegal by American multinational companies that are clients of the Industrial Development Agency in 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1624/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: 594. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the citizenship application process; the nature of systematic correspondence from his Department to applicants; his plans to improve the levels of communication with applicants while applications are being processed; his views on whether that the current system in some instances is constrictive for applicants in that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (15 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: 895. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that ambulance responses in County Donegal follow internal Health Service Executive guidelines or the pertinent Health Information Quality Authority standards; if HIQA will set out its views on two relevant experiences (details supplied); if he will outline HSE plans to improve national consistency in response times. [1617/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: 896. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the deliveries-to-date by public hospitals of targets that were set out by the Special Delivery Unit; the rewards system that may apply in respect of the delivery or surpassing of targets set out by the Special Delivery Unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1623/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Transport Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: 959. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the possible constraints on cattle numbers due to the new weight regulations being proposed for cattle trailers drawn by jeeps, 4x4s and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1625/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Civic Forum for Northern Ireland: SDLP (16 Jan 2014)

Joe McHugh: We are running a bit late but we will try to move along as swiftly as possible. As members are aware, representatives from the SDLP are here to discuss the Civic Forum for Northern Ireland. The forum was provided for within the Good Friday Agreement to provide for a broad range of voices in community relations and stimulate informed public debate in respect of key societal challenges. As...