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An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: I thank Deputy Timmins for sharing time. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. We are advocating the abolition of the Seanad on three bases - cost, ineffectiveness since the 1930s and the lack of a real role or necessity for it. Notwithstanding the fact this House has considerably curtailed its costs, it is a more expensive House to operate per Member, its effectiveness...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (25 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the procedure involved for a school which is being sanctioned a post of responsibility before payment for this post is sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30222/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (25 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: 363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a facility of tracking the switch over of direct employees in the construction sector to C2 operators, if she is satisfied that all C2 operators are compliant with the regulations and that the increased number is not a reflection on the reluctance of employers to pay the appropriate PRSI contributions for their employees; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (25 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: 364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the regulations governing payment of voluntary PRSI contributions post self employment where self employment has terminated due to illness or disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30223/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (25 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: 410. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in detail a breakdown of the annual salaries paid to the CEO's of the respective local development partnership organisations; if he will detail the annual expenditure on administration in each group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30071/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (26 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: 152. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has a facility to track the switch over of direct employees in the construction sector to C2 operators; if she is satisfied that all C2 operators are compliant with the regulations and that the increased number is not a reflection on the reluctance of employers to pay the appropriate PRSI contributions for their employees; and...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: This is certainly the most difficult and contentious piece of social legislation I have discussed in my years in the Oireachtas, and it has consumed a great deal of time for all Members, including myself, over the past number of months, particularly since the report of the expert group and the chain of consultative arrangements that were put in place subsequently. One of the points I want...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: That is unacceptable, Acting Chairman.

Topical Issue Debate: Inter-Country Adoptions (27 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: I appreciate the fact the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs cannot attend the Chamber for this matter but I welcome the fact the Minister for Justice and Equality will take it. I am not an expert on international adoption law and all it entails. However, I subscribe to the principle that it needs to be international standards-based and child-centred. Everyone engaged in the process...

Topical Issue Debate: Inter-Country Adoptions (27 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: I thank the Minister for his reply. I welcome the progress that is being made on the ongoing negotiations on the bilateral agreement and I hope the concerns of the Russian authorities about post-placement reports can be resolved in the context of the constitutional provisions on the family and so on. I believe that if there is a willingness on both sides, an agreement can be successfully...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 449. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be expedited on a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31684/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 613. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children born to female children in the care of his Department or its agencies for each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31653/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I am reassured by the Minister's comments and await the amendment he may bring forward on Report Stage. Personally, I believe terms such as "reasonable opinion", "in good faith" and "as far as practicable" are appropriate. The one that causes some concern is "in good faith" and there may be a legal definition of "in good faith" on which the Minister would like to elaborate. Without the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I do not know, because I have not spoken to Deputy Kelleher, the reason he tabled this amendment.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: It strikes me as relevant in one context, that is, in the area of competition law. Perhaps at some stage down the line other institutions which may meet the requirements set out here but which are not envisaged by the Minister would be licensed to carry out terminations certified under the legislation. I wonder whether this section has been looked at and proofed from the point of view of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: Is the skeletal definition of what services are required in these hospitals - in other words, the three medical specialities-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: To quote from the Bill: treatment of women in relation to any one or more of the following:(i) pregnancy; (ii) childbirth; (iii) post-partum care,exclusively sufficient to safeguard the health interests of women? Given the range of medical specialities available in most maternity hospitals now, where they are co-located with a series of medical specialities-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: -----such hospitals are the most appropriate place.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Issues (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 25 June 2013, if her Department has a mechanism of tracking employees who have switched from direct employees to C2 operators without any intervening period of unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32448/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will account for the discrepancy in respect of the calculation on the size of a forestry plantation as determined by the Forest Service in both March 2008 and again in respect of the same plantation in early 2013 in view of the fact that the Forest Service used maps digitised by his Department in its initial calculation; the...