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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Will we come back to that?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Perhaps the Minister can reflect on it with his Department. It might be helpful if, when he has discussed it, we can have a special meeting then to talk about it, in the mode of the constructive engagement we are having here. The Minister is accepting-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will move on to tourism services. Does any member wish to raise questions?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will move to appropriations-in-aid now. Are there any questions? I take it that general discussion is now concluded.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: That concludes the committee's consideration of the 2018 Revised Estimates. On behalf of the committee I would like to thank the Minister and his officials for assisting the committee in its consideration of the Revised Estimates.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Message to Dáil (18 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport has completed its consideration of the following Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2018: Vote 31 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised).

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (19 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: 166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to expand the parental leave process to further strengthen support for parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17214/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if reports from parents of children attending a school (details supplied) will be examined; the contractual changes that have taken place since 2017 that may have led to this deficit in services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17133/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (19 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in regard to juvenile arthritis will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (19 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to open up the pyrite remediation scheme nationwide to assist homeowners that are adversely affected by same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17148/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: 423. To ask the Minister for Health his views on increasing the means allowance for a single person and a couple over 70 years of age for medical cards; his plans to increase the limits to the 2009 or 2013 limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17928/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome all of the different bodies here today. It very important that they made joint submissions. Joined-up thinking is what it is all about. The one thing I did not hear mentioned yet is the question of the conservation of energy and heating in homes. One of the most important things to keep older people in their homes for as long as possible is to make their homes as energy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is a very specialist issue. It is at the beginning of the diagnosis that we need to attack that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I realise Mr. O'Mahony is still talking about the home but even if a person needs full-time care later, while his or her family member wishes to care for the person, we need to do a great deal more for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: There should be a fast-track grant or fast-track support available to people. Once that is available, it can happen for the person. Many families are suffering greatly as a result of their inability to deal with things such as downstairs toilets and the like.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I was not aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I know about the housing adaptation grant but is the heating support additional to the physical works?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Is that universally available to any applicant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: They do not all do that. I got a list of grants paid by local authorities, the amounts involved and compared that against population. Some local authorities do not adequately provide for the scheme. As I understand it, all of the funding available in the Department was not taken up. There-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is another way of looking at it but my point is that some local authorities do not provide enough matching funding. In that context, should the grant not just be provided by the Department without the involvement of the local authorities? If a person qualifies for the grant, he or she should not be on a waiting list. People have to be in category 1 or practically dead, to get the...