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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Chairman would like this one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Chairman would like this one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I will give the witness the direct one, so. The European Commission and the Commissioner are taking responsibility for taxation in a member state in which they have no authority whatsoever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: What does the witness think the outcome of the court appeal will be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: What does the Commissioner think? Mr. Sven Giegold said that he knows-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: -----what will be the outcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I know.

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 is on the Seanad Order Paper, but no time has been indicated for the No. 2 Bill, which relates to foreign adoptions. When is it expected to be before the House, have its heads been cleared and is it ready for introduction?

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Amendments Nos. 10 to 16, inclusive, are related. If amendment No. 10 is agreed, amendments Nos. 11 to 15, inclusive, which are physical alternatives to amendment No. 10, cannot be moved. Amendment No. 13 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 12. Amendments Nos. 10 to 16, inclusive, may be discussed together.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 64. To ask the Minister for Health the various contributory factors currently making it difficult to recruit or retain staff at all levels in the health service, including consultants, doctors and nursing staff; if similar difficulties are being experienced in the private health sector; if any studies have been done to identify the most salient factors affecting the issue; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he has sought or received confirmation from the HSE in regard to the optimum in terms of resources and facilities required to prevent overcrowding at accident and emergency departments at various general hospitals and waiting lists for various procedures; if comparisons continue to be made with best practice in other jurisdictions, with...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total entitlement to a full rate of disability allowance and invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4800/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects the capital programme in 2017 to meet the requirement in terms of extension of facilities including buildings at the various hospitals here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4915/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 290. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals projects likely to commence in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4916/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in respect of the new national children's hospital project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4917/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 292. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres which are fully staffed and operational; the extent to which evidence exists of the alleviation of overcrowding in hospital accident and emergency departments as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4918/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to encourage manufacturers of medicines to make their product available for sale to the health services at a manageable cost, with particular reference to top of the range new products with an expensive price tag; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4919/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 294. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure the retention and expansion of facilities at a hospital (details supplied) having particular regard to the need for such facilities in the public sector and a lack of adequate facilities to facilitate the discharge of patients from acute hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4920/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department has been in a position to identify precisely the full extent of resources needed to meet eventualities such as flu epidemics or a major disaster, with particular reference to the capability of general hospitals to meet the challenge without causing difficulties at accident and emergency departments; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 296. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which plans are in preparation to ensure the retention of adequate health personnel at all levels to meet any eventualities and eliminate overcrowding at acute hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4922/17]