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Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Availability (2 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 215. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is putting a methadone clinic in St. Otteran's Hospital, Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15476/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (2 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's policy in relation to mixed gender wards in hospitals; the number of hospitals that carry out this practice; the names of those hospitals and if there are mechanisms in place to end this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15561/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (2 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include paediatric inflammatory bowel disease on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15604/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Qualifications (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an approved training course for BER assessors will be put back in place; and when the necessary registration examinations will commence. [15715/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider re-examining the excessive road taxes charged prior to July 2008 for seven-seater cars. [15717/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I may have to leave at some stage before the witnesses might get to my questions but I will be observing their responses from my office. The Minister outlined his pathway to universal health insurance yesterday. We welcome the publication of the White Paper which will hopefully stimulate some form of discourse and broader debate about how we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: There is a reduction in the number of medical cards. We can assume this is because of two things - a drop in unemployment and a number of people emigrating. We are not quite sure but we hope that it is primarily due to a take-up in employment figures. What is disturbing is that we are now down to 50,501 discretionary medical cards. Over the past number of years, the Minister has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I remind the Minister that he has had four years in government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: However, this is his fourth year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: This is a health committee not a history committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: How many years is it, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It is the Government's fourth year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Just to clarify, that was not a concession. It was an observation as opposed to a concession.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the current tendering process for school bus contracts in County Cork; if there is open and transparent competition; the companies and or individuals that have lost and won contracts in County Cork in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16254/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding his Department will be allocating to an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork in 2014 to assist it in meeting the educational needs of young persons who have fallen outside the mainstream education system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16541/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his view of the work being carried out by an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork who cater for students who have fallen outside mainstream education; his Departments support for their programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16572/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is prepared to give a funding commitment to a school (details supplied) which will allow it to secure a lease to remain at its current premises, as he will appreciate negotiations have an urgency to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16576/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the programme for Government commitment on the roll-out of disposal of State assets in accordance with recommendations from the McCarthy report; if he will list the planned disposals and when tendering will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16436/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 529. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with regard to the planned legislation to ratify the Hague convention and the engagement with the relevant stakeholders the plans undertaken to carry this out the actions to date to engage with other Hague convention countries or to develop bilateral agreements with non-Hague convention countries to prevent the current situation; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 530. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the Adoption Authority of Ireland, when the position for the new CEO is expected to be filled in view of this position being left vacant for a number of months and may have affected the authority in making decisions; the reason the position was not advertised earlier; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16204/14]