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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (22 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 157. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 378 of 18 December 2014, the number of persons on the placement list for the nursing homes support scheme; the time it is taking for funding to issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3206/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Expenditure (22 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the total current budget allocated in 2014 for mental health to Roscommon PCCC, Galway PCCC and Sligo-Leitrim PCCC; the corresponding capital and new money budgets; the out-turn for 2014 in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3207/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Expenditure (22 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the total current budget allocated in 2014 for older persons to Roscommon PCCC, Galway PCCC and Sligo-Leitrim PCCC respectively; the corresponding capital budget; the out-turn for 2014 in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3208/15]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and thank Deputy Peter Mathews for tabling it. The debate brings into focus the repressive whip system we have in Ireland. As outlined earlier from the Government side, the whip system was designed in 1875 by Charles Stewart Parnell. It is not from the last century but the one before that and it was outdated a long time ago. Much of the...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: There is no doubt that there needs to be a structure and a binding mechanism to implement decisions made by political parties or Governments, but the problem here is the absolute control held by so few. Their position on whatever the issue may be is not open to question no matter how flawed it is. We have a situation in Ireland currently where we have an Economic Management Council, or gang...

Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: There are approximately 150,000 homes throughout Ireland that receive their public water supply through lead piping, which is deemed unacceptable on health grounds. In the context of the proposed water services Bill, is it acceptable that the majority of these residents are now paying for water? When I question the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on this, I am...

Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this important issue. I acknowledge the presence of the Minister for Health. I welcome the establishment of an independent investigation into the issues surrounding the care of seven babies at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe. The least the parents deserve is to know the truth about what happened in the cases of...

Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: I am disappointed with the response that it will be purely focused on Portiuncula Hospital. I understand the management of the Saolta University Health Care Group was made aware by the hospital itself of the transfer of the babies from Portiuncula Hospital for therapeutic cooling after the first two babies were transferred and after the second two babies were transferred. Why did it fail to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 1 July 2014 to detail the number of relief teaching days allocated to teachers on a departmental pension in 2013-14 and the current school year at primary and post-primary, respectively; the steps being taken to reduce this number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3336/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to support the valuable contribution played by schools within rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3335/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Risk Assessment (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 162. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the national risk assessment strategy and its planned implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3384/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress to date on the implementation of the CEDRA, Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas, report; the status of each of its recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3386/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria being considered for water vulnerable areas under the new GLAS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3855/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a mechanism for young trained farmers who were established prior to 2010 and who could not avail of installation aid to access the new national reserve scheme and the young farmers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3861/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 356. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3482/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused an over-70s medical card even though he satisfies the financial assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3570/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community First Responders Network (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 403. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the interface which has been developed by the National Ambulance Service, the command and control centre and the community first responders; the number of CFR groups and persons that are currently hooked up to the new system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3854/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the construction of a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon will commence; the other schools to be included in the bundle; when these projects will be ready to commence construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3636/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (27 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: 505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to re-establish the previous policy of rural proofing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3385/15]

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Denis Naughten: I acknowledge the presence of the Minister in the House. This proposed commission of inquiry is yet another investigation into a dark era of abuse of children in Ireland, an investigation into the destroyed lives of both mothers and their babies, and, of course, an investigation into lives cut short, some having spent only a short time on this earth. There are many aspects to this. There...