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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 428. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the high cost for persons from low income backgrounds in accessing the meningitis B vaccine for children born before 2016; his plans to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4300/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (29 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 427. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in each CHO area that have received the meningitis B vaccine privately through their general practitoner or pharmacist born before 1 October 2016 and that subsequently are not entitled to the meningitis B vaccine programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4299/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (29 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to reduce the waiting list and waiting time for home support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4301/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (29 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding spent to combat illegal dumping nationally in each of the years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4297/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (29 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding allocated to combat illegal dumping by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4298/19]

Juvenile Crime: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2019)

John Curran: I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Callaghan, for tabling this motion, although it gives me no pleasure to speak on it. This is a very serious issue that does not reflect well on the professionalism of An Garda Síochána. However, the fact that the Garda Commissioner stated that this is a "humiliating professional failure" is at least an acknowledgement of the seriousness of the issue....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety (30 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made by the cross-agency group on the issue of illegal use of scramblers and quad bikes; the outcome of this engagement; the steps that will be taken as a result of meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4174/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made on a school building project (details supplied); the timeframe for the appointment of contractors in order to deliver the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4829/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the strength of community gardaí has not increased in view of recent increases in Garda numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4828/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to best strengthen the chain of survival for cardiac arrest, for example, increasing CPR training, building on the community first responder programme and making public access defibrillators more easily accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: 205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the scale and timeline for a project by ESB eCars to develop a nationwide, state-of-the-art electric vehicle fast charging network capable of facilitating large-scale electric vehicle uptake over the next decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4825/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: Members are welcome. Apologies have been received from Deputy Bailey. Before we begin, I ask my colleagues to switch off their mobile phones. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters before resuming in public session. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: I welcome our witnesses this morning: Ms Patricia King, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU; Mr. Billy Wall, chair of the congress construction industry committee; Mr. Seamus Dooley, secretary of the National Union of Journalists, NUJ; and Mr. Brendan O'Hanlon, assistant general secretary of Fórsa. I will first invite our guests to make their presentation, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: I ask colleagues to confine their questions to five minutes. I will come back to them again for a second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: I hope we will have an opportunity to have a second round of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: Before giving the witnesses an opportunity to respond, I note that a number of people have spoken about how to make it more difficult for employers to get away with this, including with greater fines. I have a concern in this regard, as the Department is unearthing a relatively small number of cases. The witnesses have specifically spoken about the WRC and Labour Court replacing the scope...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: I ask everyone here to check their phones because they need to be in flight mode or switched off. It interferes with the recording and the broadcast of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: I will take supplementary questions and ask members to keep them brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: A written submission on those specific issues would be very helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John Curran: I thank all of the witnesses for their direct, open, informative and frank contributions. This is the second session the committee has undertaken in its work on bogus self-employment. We will have other witnesses before us in the months ahead, after which we will produce a report and issue recommendations within months. We have not restricted the time for doing this because we often find...