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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (9 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in meeting the recommendations of the Leas Cross inquiry which recommended a number of initiatives (details supplied) including that the provision of this care, that is residential care, should be clarified formally in terms of adequate numbers of adequately trained nursing and health care assistant staff, with adequate governance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Louth now that Stage 2 B has been approved by her Department; the criteria that will apply before this building project can proceed to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46883/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (9 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 431. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the primacy of the office of the mayor of Drogheda within the urban area of what was formerly Drogheda Borough Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47146/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (9 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 441. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is any leeway within the law for local authorities to allow a commercial business, having fully paid all local authority rates to the moving date, move to new premises without being legally liable for the payment of commercial rates until the end of the calendar year for its former premises while also, and at...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Properties (9 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 460. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the proposed works to Mountjoy House which is under the aegis of the Ordnance Survey Ireland; if a restoration and a new use is envisaged for this building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46982/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (9 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 461. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding microgeneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46985/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (9 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 494. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the number of DART expansion projects under the Transport 21 programme which were deferred; when the assessment of these capital investment projects for 2015 will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47226/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: There are three issues here we need to deal with. One is the question of reassuring the public that Irish Water will never by privatised. The Government had one lock, that it is already forbidden in law, before any of our new legislation came in, that the Government cannot sell off water infrastructure. The second part of that lock is the proposal in this Bill, which no doubt will pass....

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: Thank you very much.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (11 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Covanta incinerator will use only truly residual waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47539/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not think so.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: This debate has been interesting. Whatever the faults in the Bill's wording, for example, not giving sufficient authority to the forum to act of its own accord as opposed to having to be asked in writing by Irish Water to consider a matter, fundamental to democracy is Irish Water's accountability to a forum like this. I have no problem with it. One of the points I made as a Minister of...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, one gets an e-mail.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: One gets an opportunity to make a representation and a follow-up. One gets an immediate response from a named person and a telephone number for following the matter up.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: Deputies Barry Cowen and Kevin Humphreys asked in parliamentary questions about the costs of the set-up of Irish Water to date. The answer he got was that was a matter for Irish Water. When those questions came before me when I was Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, they should have been forwarded to Irish Water for direct replies. That...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (16 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health Act 2007, to allow the Health Information and Quality Authority to investigate any unsolicited communication received by them which expresses concerns about the safety, quality of care and standards of the services being provided by the Executive, a service provider, the registered provider of a designated...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (16 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (16 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: 484. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take regarding the disgraceful and inhuman treatment of residents of Áras Attracta as seen on the RTE "Prime Time" programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48169/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: What is the attitude of the ambulance service to freedom of information requests? Does it have designated officers? Is it a fact that a recent freedom of information request from me had to go to the appeals officer in the HSE to address the total lack of information I was getting? I very much welcome the fantastic work the ambulance services is doing and the lives it is undoubtedly saving....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: With respect, I received no information at all. That is my point. The national ambulance service cannot just institute a blanket ban. I did not provide anybody's name and nor did I provide any personal information. I was just seeking to discover what the hell happened and to what the complaints related. That is all I want to know but I cannot obtain the relevant information.