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Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The EPA goes on.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will not be accepting them.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am being nice.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The issues raised are very important. To deal with the last one first, the best way to give information to the Seanad is to ask the chief executive of the RPII, Dr. McGarry, to write to the Seanad with an up-to-date report and perhaps to send copies of the annual report to each Member to clarify the issues. The Department has reassured me on that point. The Senator is right to stress the...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have been a few times. Twice I was let in and once not. The time I was not allowed in got great publicity because I had been invited but the people with me were deemed to be in breach of security. In fact it was a Channel 4 news team which filmed it from the outside. I think that rebounded on Sellafield. That was in my role as a humble Senator. As a Minister of State I deal with it...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes I did, based on personal experience.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: Of course, I will read them.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I refer the Senator to section 6 of the Bill, which pertains to the transfer of functions to the EPA. Section 6(1) reads "All functions that, immediately before the dissolution day, were vested in the dissolved body by or under any enactment shall on that day stand transferred to the [EPA]". Section 6(2) states "References in any enactment ... passed before the dissolution day, or in any...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Senator made an important point about the need for continuity in the holding of the office. Any new person appointed as director of radiological protection subsequent to the date to which the Senator referred must have radiological knowledge and expertise.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: He or she would be.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I can give the Senator an assurance on that. Section 22 amends section 21 of the 1992 Act as follows: "[S]uch person having relevant experience in relation to radiological protection as the Minister shall appoint." In other words, the person who takes up that role in future will have to be knowledgeable about radiological protection and will be a director of the organisation. There will...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Senator's point is well made. None of the directors is currently identified in the way he outlined but the section will require the head of this section to have radiological expertise. The five directors are not named as leading each of the five sections. Currently there is a director general and four sections and this Bill increases the number to five. That will mean five directors....

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am sorry. I apologise.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I would like to make one more comment, if I may. It will be the function of the director general of the newly-merged organisation to arrange the distribution of the business of the agency among its directors, but this must be done having regard to the statutory functions and requirements of the organisation. Accordingly, it would not be appropriate or desirable for legislation to prescribe...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: On Report Stage we can take on board those views and I will provide the Senator with clarification.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: No problem. That is fine.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: As regards the Senator's question, I am assured by my officials that will not, and could not, happen. There is no doubt about that. While it might be slightly ambiguous to say so, before I was a Minister I did try to get information from the RPII under the Freedom of Information Act. There was information I could not get but it was within the Act. In other words, it was information that I...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (17 Sep 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will respond to a query from a person (details supplied). [33932/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Mortality Rates (17 Sep 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1026. To ask the Minister for Health the response from the critical care service of the Health Service Executive to patients critically ill with septicemia and severe sepsis; if he will provide the surviving sepsis campaign guidelines; if currently here 30% of all admissions to ICU have severe sepsis, and for these patients there is a 30% mortality of all such patients admitted to ICU; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Sep 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1109. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the waiting list for elective surgery at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin; the numbers on the waiting list; the average waiting time; if further resources will be provided to increase the number of operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34599/14]