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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 May 2019)

Martin Ferris: 928. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment with a neurologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19574/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (14 May 2019)

Martin Ferris: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Bus Éireann cannot facilitate an earlier morning service to a school (details supplied) in order that the school can attract more students, which would allow retention of adequate teaching numbers. [20898/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (21 May 2019)

Martin Ferris: 362. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21472/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 May 2019)

Martin Ferris: 160. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a mammogram at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22229/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 May 2019)

Martin Ferris: 164. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22238/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Placement (30 May 2019)

Martin Ferris: I want to raise an issue that has been ongoing for some time in Milltown, County Kerry. I refer to the Presentation secondary school facilities, the Nagle Rice primary school and the lack of places within the former for young children coming out of the latter. They are unable to get places in the secondary school because there are none. All of this goes back to the huge population growth...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Placement (30 May 2019)

Martin Ferris: Given that the Minister of State is dealing with a similar situation, I am sure he is aware of the concerns and associated problems. In the area in question, there are three secondary schools - two in Killorglin and one in Milltown. There is no short-term solution; it must be planned and carefully considered. In Killorglin, given that there has been an increase in the population of well...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: 664. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a neurology appointment at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24063/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rockall Island Ownership (12 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: I heard about this on the news last Friday, the same as every other Deputy in the Chamber. It is disgraceful that this has been going on for two years. I have been the fisheries spokesperson for my party since I first came in here in 2002 and not once was I informed that this was going on or of the problems that exist. I am not really surprised. Successive Governments have behaved...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rockall Island Ownership (12 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: When the Minister, Deputy Creed, returns he should sit down with all the representatives of the various parties and brief us thoroughly on what is happening and what he intends to do. As representatives of our respective communities, we have an entitlement to be able to brief fishing organisations and prepare a plan, legally if necessary, to challenge this illegal act by Scotland. I ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (18 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an earlier drop-off time can be facilitated for buses servicing a school (details supplied) in order that the school can attract more students which would allow retention of adequate teaching numbers. [25036/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: 354. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an ENT appointment at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/19]

Community Policing and Rural Crime: Motion (20 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin and the committee for an excellent report. A lot of research was presented verbally and in other ways to the committee that helped to make this report what it is. I commend everyone involved in that regard. All of us can recite incidents of types of crime in our communities, much of it similar but some of it more aggressive and violent than others. I...

Home Help: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: It is an awful indictment of this State that people who are so vulnerable and who want to remain in their own areas and homes are being denied a proper home help service. It is a terrible indictment that 6,500 people are on the waiting list. An even bigger indictment is the amount of money, €6,000 each, spent to keep people in hospital and in valuable beds or in nursing homes at a...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: The Healy-Rae family and the Sinn Féin Party have been very supportive of each other down through the years. More importantly, the Healy-Rae family are my friends. I first met Jackie Healy-Rae sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. That was at a time when Robert Beasley, the Sinn Féin county councillor for Kerry, had to emigrate because of the circumstances. We had to find a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: On 13 January 2016, the Maritime Jurisdiction (Straight Baseline) Order was made from Malin Head to Carnsore Point, all along the west and south coasts, with the formalisation of thevoisinageagreement through the passage of all Stages of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 in the past few weeks. I have been told that a statutory instrument from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (26 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: Yesterday, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae and I met representatives of the Irish Postmasters Union, IPU, on the crisis in the network of rural post offices. The Government has been speaking on both sides of its mouth to the effect that there is no policy directive on social welfare payments being paid out in rural post offices. Rural post offices tell us, however, that social welfare officers are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (26 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: What is needed is an active policy change by the Government to try to secure the survival and viability of rural post offices as otherwise 600 post offices will close in the next number few years. That is the reality. It will happen in the constituency of the Minister of State and the constituency of every Deputy in the House. It would take very little to make them secure and viable such...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: I have asked previously about a management plan for the brown crab fishery. There is no management plan there. It is being exploited at present and overfished, and it will be a disaster if something is not done about it. I am asking the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, and the Government whether they intend to bring forward a management plan for that inshore fishery.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (2 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: Everybody in this House recognises the importance of the fair deal scheme and that it has served our society so well in the past. The €30 million deficit in the scheme this year is having a detrimental effect. The consequences are that beds in hospital for people who are ill are being taken by healthy patients. I refer to elderly individuals who are in hospitals and have nobody to...