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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 254. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will arrange for the application of a person (details supplied) for a special needs assistant for the second ECCE preschool year to be processed without further delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29094/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management: European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management (6 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Commissioner and thank him for his presentation which gives us an opportunity to give our point of view on matters. I do not doubt the commitment of the Commissioner or that of his team to tackling what is the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. The theme of his presentation is solidarity which is sorely lacking in the global response. I agree with him on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (11 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the commitments that the Government has made in terms of accepting refugees and unaccompanied minors to Ireland; the number of persons to date who have been accepted to Ireland under the various resettlement and relocation programmes and the number of unaccompanied minors who have arrived here, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Data (11 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 294. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated number of persons resident in Great Britain who are eligible for Irish passports through descent from Irish parents or grandparents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29753/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which children who need special needs assistant, SNA, support to enter into a second ECCE preschool year can do so when the budget allocation for the SNA programme in north Dublin for 2016 has been fully utilised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29700/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which children who need special needs assistant, SNA, support to enter into a second ECCE preschool year can do so when the budget allocation for the SNA programme in north Dublin for 2016 has been fully utilised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29699/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (11 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 389. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list, county by county, of planned HSE primary health care facilities that have not yet been delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29415/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 407. To ask the Minister for Health if he will grant night-time respite care for the 12 week period for a person (details supplied) as requested by their family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29469/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 463. To ask the Minister for Health when the gratuity payment due to certain home help workers will be made in lieu of pension payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29766/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (11 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 614. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of negotiations between Canada and the European Union on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29805/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: What about metro north?

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: The Minister has announced a big review.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: By whom? Was it the Sunday Independent?

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I wish to share time with Deputies Marc MacSharry, Fiona O'Loughlin, Anne Rabbitte and Margaret Murphy O'Mahony.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I was going to confine my remarks specifically to Brexit, which I will get to shortly, but I was very interested to hear the remarks of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross. I would remind the Minister that the only party that has ever delivered infrastructure development and vision in this country has been Fianna Fáil. Our track record stands for itself. One...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I will do my level best. We are all aware of the housing crisis the Government continues to preside over and of the details of the all-party Oireachtas committee on housing. This Government has been very good on announcements, particularly in the social housing area, but it has been scant and very short on delivery. It may come as no surprise to anyone that while the Government talks about...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: The Minister did not answer the question I asked him. Has the Government carried out an independent impact assessment of its first-time buyer's grant initiative? If it has, will it publish it? This is not a help-to-buy scheme but a help-to-sell scheme. That is actually what it is. In the few estates being built in my area starter homes are costing approximately €430,000. Will the...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: Will the Government publish it?

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: Will it lead to house price increases?

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: It will push house prices up further.