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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (14 Jul 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 679. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that were seen in the medical assessment unit of Nenagh General Hospital on a weekly basis from the beginning of March to the end of June 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38801/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Jul 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 680. To ask the Minister for Health if the Nenagh General Hospital medical assessment unit has had to close on any day in 2022 due to staff shortages; if so, the dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38803/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 Jul 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if the Nenagh General Hospital medical assessment unit is still facing staff shortages; if so, the positions that are due to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38804/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Jul 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 682. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that the Nenagh General Hospital medical assessment unit should be able to see on a weekly basis if it were operating at full capacity and not facing staff shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38805/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Jul 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that the Nenagh General Hospital medical assessment unit should be able to see on a daily basis if it were operating at full capacity and not facing staff shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Grant Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 707. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the schemes being devised as a replacement to the motorised transport grant scheme and the mobility allowance which were closed in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38966/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Does the Minister propose we go through the Bill section by section?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: The next speaker is Deputy Ring but he seems to have left the room. Are there any other questions on the establishment of the new office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Head 16 provides for the attendance of a chief executive before the Committee of Public Accounts. Head 17 provides for the attendance of a chief executive before other relevant Oireachtas committees, select or joint, to discuss the general activities of the office. The representatives of Bord na gCon and Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, for example, and all the other bodies under the auspices of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Head 11 deals with the term of the chair. Do the members have any questions on this aspect? Head 12 provides for meetings and the procedures of the board. Is that okay? Head 13 provides the board with the power to establish committees and set out how they operate. That is what Ms Robinson was referring to earlier. Head 14 provides for the chief executive of the office and outlines...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Within that three years would there be progress reports on the strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: It would be a three-year strategy with yearly reports. Okay. Head 21 provides for an annual report to be submitted to the Minister and certain minimum requirements around same, such as details of claims received, number of investigations and decisions of the office on UTPs. Head 22 provides for the provision of funds to the office by the Minister advanced from funds provided by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We had a body there lately where the remuneration of the chief executive was not made public. Chapter 3 of the scheme concerns the transfer of functions, namely, the transfer of functions of unfair trading practices enforcement authority, UTPEA, under the UTP directive to the office and also provides that anything commenced under the directive before the office is established may be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I was going right well Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Yes, all right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Head 39 allows the Minister, following consultation with the European Commission, to "prohibit certain trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain (referred to as an “unfair trading practice”)", by way of regulation. This head prohibits engagement in UTPs. The general scheme states, "This Head also reflects the existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Will Deputy Carthy speak to the Bill in front of us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: That was a submission to the committee, not to the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Head 40 makes it an offence to engage in a UTP in contravention of a regulation made under head 39. Head 41 provides for the voluntary use of effective alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in cases where the office believes they could be successful. The office may suspend examination of a complaint during the use of this mechanism. Article 7 of Directive 2019/633 also promotes the use...