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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: 46. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the provision of the seasonal flu vaccine across all categories of persons to lower the risk of flu outbreak in communities; if his department has carried out a cost benefit analysis of providing the vaccine to all groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6293/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: I welcome all members to this meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I remind colleagues if they have mobile phones to turn them off. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters before retuning to public session. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: I apologise for the slight delay and for keeping the witnesses outside. I welcome Mr. Simon McGarr, Mr. Liam Herrick and Dr. Maeve O'Rourke of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL. Before I ask the witnesses to make their opening remarks, I draw their attention to the fact that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: Thank you, Mr. Herrick. Does Dr. O'Rourke want to comment at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: What was the timeline of that case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: Thank you for your opening presentations. The witnesses have certainly brought a degree of clarity that there is no underpinning legislation which is consolidated in social welfare legislation and they have highlighted a number of very significant issues. I will take questions from the members. I call Deputy Joe Carey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: It was social welfare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: I am not sure that our witnesses today can answer that question. That information may have to come from the Department. I do not want to reiterate the points made. Mr. Herrick outlined the issue in terms of the legislation. We have legislated in the sense that different pieces of legislation have added new areas where the card can be used. There is no stand-alone instrument, as has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: As amended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: Mr. McGarr, before we conclude I wish to return to a minor point you made which you might explain in a little more detail. You referred to the structure and architecture around SAFE 1 and SAFE 2 and indicated that there was an unused layer there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: Will Mr. McGarr explain that a little further?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: At a particular level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

John Curran: I thank Mr. McGarr. Unless any of the witnesses wishes to make concluding remarks, I thank them for their presentations, which were informative, and their responses to members' queries. If there is no further business, we shall adjourn.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 Feb 2018)

John Curran: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve the manner in which the Irish language is being taught at primary school level (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7364/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defibrillators in Schools Provision (13 Feb 2018)

John Curran: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to liaise with the Minister for Health and the national steering group on out of hospital cardiac arrest in order to make defibrillators more easily accessible in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7365/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Feb 2018)

John Curran: 444. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that thousands of the 40,000 eligible schoolgirls are still not getting the HPV vaccine; his plans to increase the take up of the HPV vaccine among eligible schoolgirls; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7356/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Feb 2018)

John Curran: 445. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the HPV vaccine to boys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7357/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators in Schools Provision (13 Feb 2018)

John Curran: 446. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to liaise with the Minister for Education and Skills on the findings, due in 2018, of the national steering group on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in order to make defibrillators more easily accessible in public places and schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7358/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme (13 Feb 2018)

John Curran: 548. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to protect the REFIT revenue due to small and community renewable generators when I-SEM market structure goes live; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7359/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Feb 2018)

John Curran: 549. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the upcoming RESS will include technology specific auctions in particular to enable deployment of solar PV generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7360/18]