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Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (8 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 364: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including the drug pradaxa as one of the items on the general medical supplement. [22765/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (8 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current schedule regarding to nursing and dietetic posts at Limerick Regional Hospital; when advertisements for these posts will be placed; when he is expecting to announce the appointments; and if he will advise as to whether in the event of the posts not being filled by the end of this year the budget set aside to improve...

Order of Business (9 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: What are the Government's intentions in regard to the media mergers legislation? It is part of the consumer and competition Bill which, as I understand, will not be before the House until late in the year. Is it the Government's intention, as reported recently in some newspapers, to strip it from that Bill and to bring it in as stand alone legislation? If so, when can we expect to see it?

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (9 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for the change he has introduced to this section of the Bill and the legislation now is much better than was the case on its initial introduction to the House. While technically, one can state that one cannot retrospectively give people rest breaks they did not receive at the time or give access to collective facilities, if one wished to be completely consistent one...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (9 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I take it that the 1971 Act, to which this legislation is an addition, prohibits the charging of a fee at the commencement of placement whereas this legislation address the situation at the end of the process.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (9 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: That is a progressive amendment.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (9 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for his remarks. I accept these amendments, which represent a considerable improvement on the Bill. I can understand from where the draftsman was coming in terms of the original legislation. However, the difficulty is that the more one tries to define the more loopholes open up. The Minister has taken the wise decision to stick closer to the wording of the directive,...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (9 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: This is a reasonable amendment and I thank the Minister for bringing it forward. It seems reasonable that if an agency worker is employed for a long period of time, goes on a temporary break and is taken back after say a few weeks, the employer cannot more or less start him or her again and thereby ignore rights which he or she has accumulated or is accumulating because of his or her...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (9 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I will reiterate the Minister's comments. He introduced this legislation on foot of an EU directive and his job was to fashion the legislation within the directive's broad terms. On Second Stage, I stated that the legislation as introduced had all of the hallmarks of something that had been prepared quickly. This was reflected in some of the anomalies that we identified. I welcome the...

Written Answers — Preschool Curriculum: Preschool Curriculum (15 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure the Aistear curriculum is being followed by pre school providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24010/12]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (15 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 535: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the costs incurred in the construction of the southern ring road around Limerick and outline the overspend as it relates to the works on the Nenagh and Limerick area and Anaholty bog, Nenagh bypass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23671/12]

Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Is the Ceann Comhairle asking me to put a question to the Taoiseach on the Order of Business for today as outlined by him?

Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I have a question, if I can get the Taoiseach's attention. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, has said that proposed changes to the law on media mergers will be part of the forthcoming competition Bill. On the other hand, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, has indicated an intention to extract this matter...

Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Does that mean the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural, Deputy Rabbitte, is out?

Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: That is very interesting. I thank the Taoiseach for his clarity.

Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (16 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I am sharing time with Deputy John McGuinness. I listened to the Minister with great interest because I have an interest in this scheme. It is over a century and a half since the potato famine devastated the economy. The effects of the credit famine we are experiencing are somewhat less pernicious but no less devastating in their consequences for the economy. It is ironic that the same...

Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (16 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private insurers are designing policies to be less attractive to older persons and thereby evading community rating policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24301/12]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (16 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reached a decision in regard to the request for additional secondary school accommodation from a school (details supplied) in County Limerick for September 2012; if the school has been notified of the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24429/12]

Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the serious and immediate humanitarian needs of the affected population in South Kordofan in general and the Nuba Mountains in particular, if he will call on the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan to comply with their binding obligations under International Humanitarian Law to allow safe and...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (23 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered giving an exemption from the Pension Fund Levy to defined benefit funds which are in severe deficit and are unlikely to be able to fulfil their obligations to members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25606/12]