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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: I also thank the Minister and her staff for making themselves so available and congratulate them on accomplishing quite a lot in getting the legislation to the floor of the House yesterday. Somebody who is childminding at home can benefit if she registers because she can get support from the child care committee and get a tax rebate of up to €15,000. It is predominantly women who do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Work Programme, Disability Services and Related Issues: Discussion with HIQA (12 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: Last week I sat in the kitchen of a woman whose husband died from an MRSA infection. I knew this meeting was coming up so I made a point of meeting her and talking to her about her experience. The main point she stressed to me was the importance of sanctions. Currently, the name of the hospital is published on a website and that is about it. What else happens? A number of reports have...

Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: During the summer a report was published which outlined huge failings by a number of health care providers in hospitals throughout the country with regard to hygiene. Last week Dr. Tracey Cooper from HIQA appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children. She stated hand hygiene good practice did not require monetary investment. It is not often we hear that improving...

Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: The Minister of State might be right about calling it the Florence Nightingale campaign. Now that we have secured the Rosie Hackett bridge, maybe we can ensure we will have clean hands, and that will be thanks to another woman. It is incredible and a little disappointing that the HSE's target figure for compliance for last year was only 85% and for this year it is only 90%. Surely its...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rates Application (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give a commitment to retaining the rate of VAT for the food, hospitality and tourism sector at 9 %; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37235/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information regarding the status of a Student Universal Support Ireland higher education grant application made by a person (details supplied) in County Waterford in 2012 with respect to the 2012-2013 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36809/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information regarding the status of a Student Universal Support Ireland higher education grant application made by a person (details supplied) in County Cork in 2012 with respect to the 2012-2013 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36810/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information regarding the status of a Student Universal Support Ireland higher education grant application made by a person (details supplied) in County Waterford in 2012 with respect to the 2012-2013 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36811/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information regarding the status of a Student Universal Support Ireland higher education grant application made by a person (details supplied) in County Waterford in 2012 with respect to the 2012-2013 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36812/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 966. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when details of the new tenant purchase scheme will be made available; when the new scheme will be open to tenants that wish to make an application; if he will introduce a new tenant purchase scheme as at present no such scheme exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38627/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Funding (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 1227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the need for the harbour in Dunmore East, County Waterford, to be dredged; if he will ensure that funding for the dredging is made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38580/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 1360. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider reductions in payments to general practitioners under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act; if he has considered that this will result in patients waiting to see general practitioners as well as possible redundancies; if he will further consider alternative saving measures; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Working Conditions (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 1359. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made to reduce the number of hours worked by non-consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37534/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 1459. To ask the Minister for Health his response to recent Health Information and Quality Authority reports which show that many hospitals are failing to follow basics hand hygiene techniques; if he will urgently implement accountability measures to tackle same up to and including sanctions where necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37933/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (18 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 1520. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical exam required for the purposes of a driver licence renewal for over 70 year olds is covered under the GMS scheme; if not, if he will confirm if there are plans to include same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38252/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fisheries Protection (24 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 373. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider re-opening commercial eel fishing in the Waterford region as stocks are above conservation limits (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39735/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fisheries Protection (24 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 374. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the British Government is to retain its commercial eel fisheries as this activity is considered part of the fabric of rural life and tradition in the UK; his views on whether commercial eel fishing here is part of the fabric culture and tradition of many traditional...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection (24 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 407. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the non principal private residence charge, the recourse there may be for persons (details supplied) who are normally resident abroad and who own a private residence here, who were not aware of the need to pay the NPPR charge and who were not corresponded with directly regarding same, particularly...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Stations Upgrade (24 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 409. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm if funding is to be made available for upgrades or work on a fire station (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39722/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development (24 Sep 2013)

Ciara Conway: 568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the need for the section of the River Suir along the quays at Waterford city to be dredged; if he will ensure that funding for the dredging project will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39168/13]