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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is not in receipt of a full State pension. [48452/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 247. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [48518/17]

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: I ask the Taoiseach about the most recent Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, report on foster care services in Ireland, which was published today. The report found a serious lack of compliance in foster care services in Cork. A report issued in February and a subsequent report issued today found a glaring lack of compliance with safety requirements and a lack of social workers....

Priority Questions: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the steps that have been taken to improve mobile telephone coverage in rural parts of the country in the past six months; the number of times the mobile phone task force has met in the past six months; the mobile telephone operators the task force has met; and the number of officials and their Departments...

Priority Questions: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: We are speaking a good deal about broadband today, but I want to move the agenda on to the fact that in large swathes of the country, people cannot get mobile telephone coverage. I want to speak for those people. I have specific questions about the work of the mobile phone task force. Will the Minister outline when the task force met? How many officials in the Departments are working on...

Priority Questions: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: I conducted a straw poll today of people I know throughout the country. Cushenstown in rural Wexford has little or no mobile coverage. Maryborough Hill, Douglas in the heart of Cork has little or no mobile coverage. North Meath outside of Kells and Navan has no coverage. Other places, including the area west of Carrigrohane in Cork, have no courage. Wolfhill in Laois, Balgriffin in north...

Priority Questions: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister can bring in the mobile telephone operators.

Priority Questions: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister is shifting it back onto the committee. The committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas have discussed these issues ad infinitum. The Minister acknowledges that mobile telephone coverage in his experience is patchy in part. He has acknowledged that he has had to turn off his own data service. It is a sad indictment on the House when the Minister for Communications, Climate...

Priority Questions: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: People cannot even get 3G, never mind 5G.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number of persons in the single pension scheme for public servants; the number under each Department for the latest available date; if all aspects of the scheme are now in place; his plans to review the contributions to the scheme and the actuarial position in view of, among other factors, the finding by the Public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is planned to establish an Educate Together school in Fermoy, County Cork. [49523/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment can be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [49522/17]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: Apologies have been received from Deputy Eugene Murphy and Senator Denis Landy. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: I remind members, delegates and persons in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the sound system. We will consider petition No. P000013/17 from Ms Tara O'Sullivan on how to make the new English junior certificate examination fairer by adding 30 extra minutes. I welcome Ms O'Sullivan and her colleagues. She submitted the petition in her own name but in...

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: There shall be no ageism before this committee.

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Ms O'Sullivan for her very comprehensive submission. I will now open up the discussion to members who want to interact with the witnesses by way of questions and answers.

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: Does the Deputy have any supplementary questions on that issue?

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: To be helpful, all four witnesses should feel free to respond. We want to hear all four voices.

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: And in the 1980s.

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Sherlock: I will address one or two of the points made. The line committee, the committee that would have competence in relation to content, etc., would be the Joint Committee on Education and Skills. We are currently engaged with that committee on some of the issues highlighted. One of the points that threw itself up in lights for me was the issue of how the content within the Civic, Social and...