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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the growing and ongoing problem of cruelty to horses and donkeys (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53861/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Legal Costs (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of legal action against his Department for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54449/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Legal Costs (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 535. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of legal action against her Department for the years 2011 and 2012 and to date in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54451/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reducing the registration fees payable by pharmacists to the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland which are very high by international standards; if he will reduce the annual pharmacy premises charge from €2,250 to €500 per annum and take €8 million from the reserve of the PSI to put that money to better use within the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 631. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the applications the Department received for national lottery funding for 2013; the funding sought; the amount received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54378/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 632. To ask the Minister for Health with respect to the applications the Department received for national lottery funding, the number and which of the applicants he met in the Department of Health or his office; the purpose of such meetings; if an interview was a requirement of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54379/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Estimates Process (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 633. To ask the Minister for Health if the Supplementary Estimate of 12 December 2013 contains any funding to meet payments which are not due until 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54380/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 646. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of Section 38 funding that was allocated to counties Carlow and Wicklow for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54421/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Costs (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 648. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of legal action against his Department for the the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54458/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Legal Costs (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 670. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of legal action against his Department for the the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54464/13]

Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: On a point of order, is there an assurance that those who want to speak on the Order of Business tomorrow will have the opportunity?

Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: Will it be the exact same?

Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: Should there be a policy that there be no votes on the Order of Business?

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: I support Deputy Naughten's amendment. I acknowledge the work the Minister of State has done in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. He is a hard working, honest individual and as Deputy Naughten pointed out, when he was in opposition he elicited an enormous amount of information from statutory bodies, not because of them but in spite of them. That must be...

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: We all acknowledge the under-investment in water and sewerage over a long number of years. In my earlier contribution, I did not mention the Minister, but the Dunlavin scheme costing €5 million and the Ballyconnell scheme costing €200,000 would not have taken place only for his direct intervention. I would like to acknowledge that, but it still does not exonerate people from...

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: I appreciate the frustration. I have suffered a lot of it over the last few months when I was not able to elicit information or get explanations as to why certain things happened. I pointed that out earlier, but I did not get elected to carry out stunts. If people want to carry out stunts, they can go to the Gaiety Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, or the window at the bottom of Grafton Street...

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: Well, wherever. They should be down with the successor of my own townsman, the late Dice Man. We are leaving here today and we do not know either the charge or the allowance. Deputy Naughten has sought certain assurances. When calculating that allowance, certain consideration should be given to families that have members with disabilities. It should not be a simple head count, but...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Priory Hall Development (19 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the issue of insurance cover under the HomeBond scheme was examined in the case of the Priory Hall housing development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54944/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (19 Dec 2013)

Billy Timmins: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Act has not been implemented to date; the number of members of the medical profession that were contacted with a view to participating in the review panel and what the response has been; the measures that have been taken to date to implement the legislation and the difficulties that have been experienced; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Billy Timmins: The Deputy has asked numerous supplementary questions.