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Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am not an expert on the detail. The Daughters of Wisdom know that the service will be continued and will be provided.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: It simply will not be provided by them. I remind the House that in other aspects of social life in this country, religious orders have chosen to withdraw from the provision of service for various reasons. This is clearly the case in the education sector, with which I am familiar. On the basis of what I have been told by the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, I can assure Deputy...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I can understand there is concern out there because of the work that has been provided by the Daughters of Wisdom over many years. They have been in discussion with the Department of Health since April, as I said to Deputy McConalogue. There is, as we speak, a transition team from the HSE that has been in negotiations recently with the Daughters...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: If I were Deputy Kelleher, I would not say very much about the legacy of Fianna Fáil.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The legacy of the Fianna Fáil Party was the destruction of Ireland's economic sovereignty - the destruction of our sovereignty.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I can assure Deputy Ó Snodaigh that the Department of Health will be issuing a statement later today and will deal with all of the details of the issue. I know it is of concern to the people in the area and I have been assured by the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, that the services will continue.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The service will continue. It will be delivered by the HSE. I do not have the details of that at present but those details will be revealed later today in the statement the Department will issue. I can assure the Deputy there will be no automatic increase because of a transfer of the agent which is delivering the service. The services are funded and will continue to be funded by the State.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Deputy Boyd Barrett will be aware, coming from the constituency he does, that Ireland has inherited a very rich architectural heritage of buildings going back centuries. Some of them are private dwellings in which people live. The maintenance and upkeep of those buildings is very extensive because of their age and the manner in which they were built in the past. In order to ensure that...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The object of the exercise, which successive Governments have supported, including Governments of which I have been a member in the past, has been to preserve the heritage. If people live in a house of that kind and spend money to maintain it, they only get the tax relief if they open the doors of those houses to the wider public. That is the public benefit of that measure. Individual...

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: It is proposed to take No. a18, motion re membership of committees; No. 18, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime in the European Union, back from committee; No. 19, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the ratification by Ireland of the Aarhus Convention,...

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am informed by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs that the report will be published as quickly as possible and certainly before the end of this month. It was received by the Department some months ago, but there were legal issues that had to be investigated and satisfied before it could be published. It was published earlier this week.

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am informed that the legislation relating to the JLC is in progress and that Committee Stage is due next week, on 19 June.

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am not sure if the Deputy seeks admission.

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am informed that the unit to which the Deputy refers is not closed. It is no longer taking-----

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Not that I am aware of.

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am informed that the necessary legislation to which the Deputy refers will be taken this session.

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The heads of the first Bill to which the Deputy refers were cleared and agreed in June 2011 and the Bill will be taken later this year. The heads of the mediation Bill were approved in February and it is hoped to proceed as soon as possible with that Bill.

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I have not yet received the report from the working group on that and until we get that report, I am not in a position to answer the Deputy's question. However, I hope we can move on this as quickly as possible. As the Deputy is aware, the grant system has been updated and modernised in recent times.

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: For what reason was he put in?

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Deputy.