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Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Sure.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I propose to press the amendments and we can have further debate on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 3:In page 4, lines 18 and 19, to delete “he or she is satisfied that” and substitute “the Information Commissioner is satisfied”.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 4:In page 4, to delete lines 27 and 28. This amendment seeks to take the discretionary power from the Minister to make decisions on what can and cannot be done as far as the release of these documents is concerned. It seeks to increase their transparency in the public interest in order that no one in government would be able to decide which documents were not suitable...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it possible for me to move the amendment tabled by Deputy Niamh Smyth?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Would it be possible for me to table an amendment with a similar objective on Report Stage?

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes. It is important that we recognise in this Chamber the work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its efforts in bringing the Paradise Papers to light. One of the most damaging aspects of life on our planet is the gross wealth inequality between rich and poor. Oxfam has stated eight men now own half of the wealth on the planet. That is shocking and it...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to protest at the outset, and no harm to the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, about the fact that the Minister, Deputy Harris, has not come into the House to take this Topical Issue. Members do not get many opportunities to make a case on significant issues of health in their own counties and when they do, they like to ask questions and tease out issues. The Minister of...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister talks about creating extra resources within the health service but the small hospital framework document states that Our Lady's Hospital will lose accident and emergency, intensive care and coronary care services, as well as 24-hour anaesthesia. How is that increasing the resources within the hospital? I love this; this is rule by euphemism. We have a situation where redesign...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé beartaithe ag a Roinn beartas cuimsitheach Stáit ar an nGaeloideachas a fhorbairt; agus má tá, cathain a fhoilseofar é; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [52594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children from Navan town and its catchment area attending secondary schools in other towns; the number of children in County Meath on waiting lists for secondary schools in Navan; if there are sufficient places in secondary schools in Trim, Navan, Athboy and Oldcastle; the locations of these available places; and when the second...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé ar intinn ag a roinn beartas forbartha don Ghaeloideachas lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht a chruthú; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [52992/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoil Issues (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason education and training boards are communicating with Gaelscoileanna and Gaeltacht schools in English only; the reason administration materials used by ETBs are in English only; his views on whether schools should be able to conduct their business with the ETBs in the language of the school; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Closures (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 261. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fatalities that have occurred in ambulances or hospitals of persons who live within 20 miles of an accident and emergency department that has been closed in the past 20 years. [52657/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Beds Data (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing home beds in County Meath; the number of persons on waiting lists for nursing home beds in County Meath; and the average waiting times for persons waiting for nursing homes. [52682/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 270. To ask the Minister for Health the board members of the Ireland east group and Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. [52687/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 274. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 418 of 21 November 2017, his views on whether the question asked was answered; and his further views on whether this is acceptable. [52694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Staff (12 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech therapists and psychologists with functional Irish that are working in the educational sector; the number of these professionals working in Gaeltacht areas; the mechanisms by which his Department ensures that Gaeltacht schools have access to health professionals with functional Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53062/17]