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Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: We were promised the heads of a commercial rates Bill were being prepared. Many of us are celebrating 12 months in this House and many of us were members of a local authority for many years. Therefore, we are aware commercial rates payers are absolutely crippled with an archaic and outdated method of commercial rate setting. It is time that a fair assessment system, based on ability to pay...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (28 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 8 February 2017 regarding a person (details supplied), if the portion of the land that needed to be reassessed for the balance of the 2015 payment under the GLAS scheme has been examined; if the examination has not yet taken place, the reason; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Aid (28 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 704. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a new grant scheme available for small-scale forestry (details supplied); if so, when this scheme commences; the timeframe for persons to get access to such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10261/17]

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I am old enough to remember the PMPA saga, and all of us in this House are certainly old enough to remember the Quinn debacle where we are still paying a 2% levy which is expected to remain until 2037. This is unfair on the taxpayers. This Setanta saga is another sorry issue. We know the history here. As Deputy Murphy O'Mahony stated, over 1,600 customers are affected. These customers...

Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (2 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Is Deputy Durkan satisfied that Question No. 8 has, in effect, already been answered by the Minister?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (7 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 535. To ask the Minister for Health if the five new operating theatres and emergency departments will be fully equipped and commissioned to function as per planning permission when the phase two building at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is complete in November 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11519/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (8 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in a matter (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the facility has to turn persons away that are members of a company due to this refusal and that these persons have nowhere else to turn to in the region; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the facility is struggling to maintain its...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Coverage (8 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to regulate for insurance for hobby drone users; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the two insurance companies here underwritten by UK companies that offer insurance cover for drones will not cover drones used by amateurs and hobbyists; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that there have been a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sugar Industry (9 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding streams and grant aid supports there are for producing industrial chemicals from sugar beet; if any projects have accessed the EU funding opportunity under the bio-based industries joint undertaking to date; his plans to provide funding supports to help reestablish the sugar beet industry here from 1 October 2017;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I thank Dr. Morrow for his presentation. The good wine was kept until the end. It is the first time I have heard the suggestion he made in all the discussions that have taken place. That is the key point I will take from what he had to say. When we were in Brussels during the week, we heard that Ireland has a dramatic position in the EU. The EU started out as the European Economic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I referred to the process of civil society dialogue and the various fora and sectors feeding into it. The clear message from Barnier and Verhofstadt key people in Brussels, is that a political solution is needed. By the time Article 50 is triggered, hopefully, what Britain wants will be clearer. By then most of the problems in each of the sectors probably will have been identified. The...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Not for the first time I raise the issue of commercial rates in this country, which are sucking the lifeblood from many small businesses and threatening their viability. The current revaluation occurring in many counties also exacerbates the concerns of those businesses. As opposed to hearing it in this House, we read in yesterday's newspaper that the Minister, Deputy Coveney, is in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (21 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the measure introduced in the last budget to charge VAT on training and development activities is having the effect of actively discouraging businesses from offering training and development opportunities to their staff; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the measure has led to training...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 485. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of payments by county that have been made to families by the community welfare officers as top ups to the rent supplement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12816/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (21 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 809. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2016 the EU cross-border health-care directive, which allows Irish citizens obtain treatment in other member states, cost the HSE €2.2 million, an increase of €500,000 on 2015; the detail of the services that were approved since the directive started; the amount that was allocated to mental...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 1299. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if consideration will be given to the circumstances of a person (details supplied) who now falls outside of the criteria outlined in the early years preschool regulations and her Department's child care programmes qualification requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13254/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance (22 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the problem for road haulage companies whereby no insurance company here will insure a HGV driver under 25 years of age; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that at 25 years of age, drivers must prove they have two years experience; if his attention has been drawn to discrepancies...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: HGV Sector (23 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to ensure there is no disruption to the current HGV driver sector in anticipation of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14426/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: HGV Sector (23 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the potential damage to the economy caused by the unavailability of drivers in the HGV sector across the EU; the action being taken to ensure drivers can be recruited outside of the EU while unavailable within the EU; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that there is a severe...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Earlier today and yesterday, the Taoiseach said, as the Tánaiste has indicated this evening, that all the checks and balances are now in place. To me, that means, de facto, that the Garda authorities know the cause of the problem and that it must be known by the Tánaiste, particularly in respect of the breathalyser cases. A child in sixth class in school would tell us that the...