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Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (11 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if respite beds are designated for each age cohort or otherwise used by rotation; and, if so, the rotation timetable. [18190/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (11 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons seeking respite by location and county for each of the past three years; if such respite was actually availed of; if not, the reason therefor; the number of persons who have yet to be offered such respite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18191/17]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree that it is a good Bill. It provides for the appointment of a planning regulator, which makes a great deal of sense. The weakness is not so much that the Minister has too much power but that councillors and elected members have too much power in the planning process, particularly regarding planning recommendations. I appreciate the difference between the powers of elected members in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree with much of the debate here. What the Minister is saying finds an echo in my experience as well since I was a councillor for many years. Many years ago, we were doing a new development plan. As an elected member, I was awaiting the outcome of what the proposed development plan would be. I got a phone call from a developer in Drogheda who said he wanted to see me. I decided to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Maybe not all of them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: On the point the Minister just made, it is not just since the collapse of the economy that we have had houses built poorly in Drogheda. I raised one as an issue last week, where a builder built a house for a local authority in which there is no damp-proof course. The person who now occupies it has been told that, despite whatever remedial works have been carried out, the house may have to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: And paid for work they did not do. It is a very fundamental structural issue.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates Data (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money drawn down by county for primary medical certificates for 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18886/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Libraries (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the provision of a library can be facilitated for a college (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18879/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the OPW's flood relief works and plans in respect of the east Meath and Louth constituency; the cost of such works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18881/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for a colonoscopy in the Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; the number of persons on the waiting list over 1 year and 2 years respectively; if the hospital has an adequate number of gastroenterologists to perform such procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18883/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a dedicated respiratory doctor or consultant in the Lourdes hospital in Drogheda that specialises in COPD; his plans for 2017 in this area for the Lourdes hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18885/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages that were applied for and approved in counties Louth and Meath in each of the years 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18903/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Waiting Lists (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 253. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 28 March 2017, if he will provide further details (details supplied). [18936/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (2 May 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19304/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (2 May 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of applications received in relation to the mortgage to rent scheme since its inception; the number of applications referred to each housing association and the outcome of each such application whether refused or not; the reason for such refusal; his views on the transparency of the process from the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (2 May 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 518. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address concerns raised (details supplied) in relation to community employment schemes. [19147/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (2 May 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 815. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19307/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Wards of Court (2 May 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 988. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases in which a HSE staff member is acting or has acted as a committee for a ward either in a residential setting or in the community setting in the years 2015 and 2016 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19991/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (2 May 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1429. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the affordable child care scheme in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19176/17]