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Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will try to do so. The Bill is very much intertwined with the matter we debated earlier today. I acknowledge the valuable, important and forthright contributions made by Members from all sides of the House in the previous debate. The Minister will appreciate what I am trying to do in that there is an interconnection between speaking to the Bill and the earlier debate. I know the...

Post Office Network: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Government spin.

Post Office Network: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Toeing the party line.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Capital Allowances (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider measures such as the extension of EIIS to nursing homes or the application of a zero or very low rate VAT to nursing home construction expenditures. [9863/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the decision of her Department to close the CSP north Kerry older person's home maintenance service based in the north and east Kerry development area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9758/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding REP scheme payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [9804/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer buys a farm in 2014 with entitlements and stock on it and they claim area aid on their own farm in 2013, can that farmer increase the new entitlements from 2015 onwards even though they did not have them in 2013. [9874/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding treatment in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9765/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 234. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to nursing homes, the way demographic changes will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9857/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 235. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to nursing homes, the proposals he has to deal with the likely shortfall in beds. [9858/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the roles of public and private operators in the nursing home sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9859/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 237. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to nursing homes, his proposals for alternative and complimentary models of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9860/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 238. To ask the Minister for Health his view of the role of nursing homes in the continuum of care model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9861/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 239. To ask the Minister for Health his views that uncertainty of the future of the fair deal and the weekly rates to be paid to nursing home operators have been cited by the banking sector as some of the key impediments to lending to the nursing home sector at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9862/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 240. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of transparency and dominant negotiating position enjoyed by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, and a flat rate of fees irrespective of the levels of dependency and acuity identified as some of the key weaknesses in the current nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9864/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 242. To ask the Minister for Health his views on affording the opportunity for fair right of appeal independent of the National Treatment Purchase Fund with regard to nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9866/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 243. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to nursing homes, his views on the way the level of investment required to bring the public provision of long-term residential beds is substantial, €1.68 billion, and the ability of the Exchequer to make this investment is seriously under question. [9867/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 244. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that all public nursing home beds can become Health Information and Quality Authority compliant by the July 2015 deadline; his views on whether this is now a realistic or desirable objective; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9868/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 245. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to nursing homes, if the deadline for the Health Information and Quality Authority compliance will be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9869/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 246. To ask the Minister for Health his views on ensuring that a uniform and consistent application of existing and future standards is brought to bear on all nursing home operators, both public and private; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9870/14]