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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 355. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of increasing the general practitioner rural practice allowance to €25,000. [38796/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of implementing the national maternity strategy. [38797/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national maternity strategy; and the estimated additional extra funding that will be required for its implementation. [38811/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 2.2 million home help hours. [38798/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 5,000 homecare packages. [38799/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of completing the recruitment required for the full implementation of A Vision for Change. [38800/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Data (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the drug payment threshold to €100. [38801/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Data (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 200 speech and language therapists. [38802/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Staff (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 200 occupational therapists. [38803/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Physiotherapy Provision (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 200 physiotherapists. [38804/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Data (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 50 dental surgeons. [38805/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of providing an additional emergency ambulance; and the estimated full year costs of additional personnel required for its staffing. [38806/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional one and a half million personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38807/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 200 intensive homecare packages for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38808/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Data (25 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in community neuro-rehabilitation teams in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, in tabular form; the specific medical or healthcare posts in each team in each community healthcare organisation; and the estimated full year cost of providing a full neuro-rehabilitation team in each CHO. [38812/18]

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I support the spirit of what Deputy O'Reilly is trying to do. I have discussed it with the Minister in some detail and it has been explained to me that for a bunch of what sound like reasonable and material legal reasons it cannot be done in this way. However, the point raised is incredibly important because one of the things that this Bill does is to try to prevent advertising of alcohol...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I had an economics professor who used to say that good policy internalises the negative externalities. I had no idea what he was talking about for a very long time, but after a while I got my head around it. What he meant was this. There is a bunch of things we do that have consequences, positive and negative. In the world of economists these are externalities. The problem is that if...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 8:In page 13, line 31, after "form" to insert ", in both the English and Irish language". These amendments refer to providing warnings to the public in Irish and English. There are two main reasons for this. One is the position of the Irish language in our society and Constitution. There are many people, and I hope it is a growing number, who live, eat, sleep, dream...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for his detailed response. I will start by addressing a point suggested by Deputy Harty that seeking to have public warnings and public communications in Irish is somehow a sop to political correctness. I do not believe it is. The Irish language is important and we need to take it seriously. We need to recognise there are people who live through Irish, who think,...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I recognise there are strongly held views on this issue around the House and the country. Those who are making their views known are representing what they believe to be the best interests of their constituencies. Fianna Fáil's position is that we are supporting the inclusion in primary legislation of cancer labelling. Why are we taking that position given there are strongly held...