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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: When I spoke on this Bill before Christmas, I referred to the need for a sensible approach to road safety and suggested that roads like the N4, the N17, the N16 and the N15 might need to be upgraded. When I was driving on the national primary road that passes through Carrick-on-Shannon last Friday evening, 12 January, I was unable to move my car for an hour and 45 minutes because of an...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: As politicians, we have the job of making decisions on behalf of the electorate on all sorts of important issues. The questions that come before us are rarely as challenging, profound or troubling as the issue of abortion. What will be decided in the coming months will have huge implications for our society for a long time into the future. Thousands of people will be personally affected in...

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Scheme Payments (18 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: I want to voice the concerns of 33 landowners who farm the Killerry Mountain on the Sligo-Leitrim border and to request an urgent investigation into the current position as to why the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is only partially paying basic payment scheme, BPS, and areas of natural constraints, ANC, payments to these farmers. There are up to 1,000 ha of commonage on the...

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Scheme Payments (18 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: There were 80 burnings on mountains during 2017. These farmers kindly gave permission to have this walkway put in place, supported by Sligo Leader, Sligo County Council and Leitrim County Council. After that, last April or May, there were three or four weeks of good weather. It was the only summer we got. One could not burn land since then because one would not be able to light it because...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: On the same issue, if anybody wants to get planning permission in County Leitrim now, he or she has to spend €50,000 to deal with the effluent treatment. What will happen is rural areas will shut down. It is bad enough as it is, with depopulation and everything else, but it is a crazy situation to expect somebody to fork out €50,000 to facilitate a septic tank. That is what...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Site Visits (23 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the work to market counties Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Roscommon as jobs locations; the number of IDA site visits that have taken place in these counties in the past five years; the other initiatives that have taken place to contribute to highlighting the north west as a destination for new businesses; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Staff (23 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 399. To ask the Minister for Health when a speech and language therapist will be appointed in St Patrick's hospital, Carrick-on-Shannon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3216/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 126. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to investigate matters relating to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3715/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Professionals (25 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the level of consultation with health care support assistants in establishing a new roster system; if he and the HSE will ensure continuity of care on the rosters with regard to the time needed to carry out duties required; the minimum number of persons on each roster and other issues including travel time; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (25 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legislation that was in place in 1984 regarding married women signing for unemployment assistance; if the case of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3735/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Site Visits (30 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 335. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA site visits that have taken place in each county over the past five years; the confirmed visits to take place in each county in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4266/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (30 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 353. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) will be undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (30 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 475. To ask the Minister for Health if an additional emergency ambulance fleet will be allocated in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim; the extra funding that will be provided to the ambulance service in the north west in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4641/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Promotion (30 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 651. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available from her Department to local heritage festivals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3935/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (31 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce measures to allow families that do not have a minimum earned income of €15,000 per annum to purchase their homes under the tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4339/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (31 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the funding or grants available through his Department for early retirement groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4776/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Retirement Scheme (31 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on reopening the early retirement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4774/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Funding (31 Jan 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the recent decision by the Citizens Information Board to cease funding the MABS national management forum, NMF, with immediate effect, which goes against the will of Dáil Éireann which voted for the restructuring process to be halted; if she will direct the Citizens Information Board to...

Other Questions: Schools Site Acquisitions (1 Feb 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: Very quickly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (1 Feb 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to secure a second permanent consultant to fill a recently vacated second post in relation to dermatology services at Sligo University Hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is only one permanent consultant covering the north west; the wait time for persons in the north west requiring an appointment with a...