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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (10 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the State's legal reasoning (details supplied) behind the decision to only allow those who were abused after the date a complaint was made regarding a teacher to be entitled to compensation, leaving those abuse victims, who for whatever reason did not come forward or did so too late, without any acknowledgement by the State of what was done to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (10 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , in view of the Government's decision before Christmas 2014 to offer a settlement to those who were abused in school (details supplied), if she will provide information on the exact number of the 135 claims that were formally discontinued, as she referred to them, through the State Claims Agency; the number of the 135 cases, following...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Records (10 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on concerns (details supplied) regarding information being sought by her Department. [5973/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Bituminous Fuel Ban (10 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 575. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on extending the Cork smokeless-coal-zone to include Midleton; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5613/15]

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: They were the cards that were taken in the first place. They are not new ones.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Clearly, what is outstanding is the Taoiseach's commitments that he made four years ago.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Daniel O'Connell had more success, though.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: He is commentating.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The national dementia strategy was published recently. There was no clear commitment to the provision of a funding stream to underpin it and it has some deficiencies, but we welcome its publication. I know that the Taoiseach will give me the usual answer that the Whips can meet to discuss my request, but could the House get time before the summer to debate the national dementia strategy?...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: And the Taoiseach will help me through the line.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: We are allowed to raise issues, including broken promises.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister, Deputy Coveney, is Deputy Kehoe's friend as well.

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I commend Deputy Troy on placing this important motion before the House. The motion is important for a number of reasons. It is solutions-based. It highlights areas which must be addressed in the years ahead and it comes up with imaginative ideas to do this. All these things are resource dependent, but we must prioritise our children. We cannot look at child care in isolation. We...

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: As the Minister of State lives in the commuter belt, he should know about the pressures that families are clearly under. We have to address another cohort of people as well. I refer to people in the lower income brackets who are in a trap. We are talking about giving people choices that allow them to develop professionally. The difficulty for women, in particular, who want to go back into...

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Fine Gael was promising more than us at the previous elections.

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: How is that new hospital in the north east going? Is it going out of business?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (11 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 120. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department, or the Health Service Executive, has carried out, or have plans to carry out, a feasibility study into the possibility of setting up additional test-scan centres at a primary care level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6175/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Adoption Legislation (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Children and Family Relationships Bill will change the current arrangements for step-parent adoption, for example, where at present the only way a woman's second spouse can adopt her child is by her relinquishing her parental rights and the couple then adopting the child together; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6577/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Adoption Legislation (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 161. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Children and Family Relationships Bill will provide effect to the recommendation by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection for a simpler procedure for step-parent adoptions, whereby a step-parent could adopt the child, without terminating the rights of existing parents, as permitted in France and Austria; and if she will make a...