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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mental Health Services Provision (26 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be provided with a child and adolescent mental health service appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14841/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Health when an otolaryngology appointment will be available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14856/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Charges (26 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Health if it is correct that a person (details supplied) in County Cork who, in emergency, availed of private treatment for hip replacement may not now avail of the public system to treat the second hip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork referred to the Orthopaedic unit at Cork University Hospital will get an appointment for treatment [15125/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reappraise the refusal of an appeal, made by a person (details supplied) in County Cork for invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15492/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an extensive home care package in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15379/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Committee (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: As we have a quorum, the meeting is in public session. I welcome the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, and his officials to the meeting, the purpose of which is to consider the National Lottery Bill 2012. The Bill was referred to the committee by the Dáil on 6 February 2013. Is it agreed to conclude consideration of the Bill today? Agreed.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 1 and 34 to 36, inclusive, are related and will be taken together by agreement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The licence currently in place was due to expire this year. A six-month extension was given to An Post. If another State agency or a private agency was to take it on, would we need to provide for an extension in ten or 15 years' time or for whatever the licence period is in the legislation? If we had not engaged in this process, would we have been required under EU competition processes to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Will the Deputies address their remarks through the Chair?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We can all move upstairs to the canteen, which would be great. I could go into my office and do a bit of work, or we can discuss it using the structure of a Committee Stage debate.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Questions must be directed through the Chair.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Does Deputy McDonald wish to comment?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will tighten up the debate. We are discussing the repeal of legislation, which is a very broad interpretation of this section. As we progress through the sections, I will define how people refer to the section being discussed. I call Deputy McDonald.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I am always delighted to hear the Deputy's lovely Dublin tones.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Sean Fleming has tabled amendment No. 2. Amendments Nos. 2 and 24 are related and will be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: For the purpose of clarity, a mechanism can be put in by way of legislation but that is not to say that there is no mechanism available to do it. I ask the Minister to clarify that. This meeting is being broadcast live. There may be people watching these proceedings at home. The national children's hospital is a significant part of the national lottery legislation.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I accept that comment but it is very much in the context of what we are discussing this afternoon.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The tendering of the national lottery will arrive with a capital injection to the Exchequer.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. It is a receipt, and the desired intention is that there will be capital ring-fencing of a specific sum of money. We do not know what the tendering processes will be and therefore we cannot say to the dollar how much that capital sum will be or whatever. Deputy Fleming indicated that the National Treasury Management Agency may be a holding account for this while planning permission...