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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 793. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals providing cardiac rehabilitation, in tabular form. [15628/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (17 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 794. To ask the Minister for Health if all hospital cardiac units have positions (details supplied); and if not, the positions unfilled in each hospital cardiac unit, in tabular form. [15629/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (17 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 952. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the allocation of €55 million in 2018 to fund the National Treatment Purchase Fund to address waiting lists; the amount of this funding that has been spent; the number of patients who have been treated under the auspices of the fund to date in 2018; and the total number who have been treated since the fund’s restoration in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 (17 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 953. To ask the Minister for Health if changes are being proposed to the national cardiovascular health policy; if reconfiguration of services is being carried out or proposed; if all hospitals providing cardiovascular services will continue to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16308/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the robustness of the Companies Act 2014 with respect to corporate governance; and the penalties in operation for breaches under the Act. [16974/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Will the Minister give her views on the robustness of the Companies Act 2014 with respect to corporate governance and the penalties in operation for breaches under the Act? We are all aware of alleged breaches and investigations and everything that flows from that in a prominent media outlet at this time. Is the Minister confident and happy with the robustness of the Office of the Director...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for her kind words. I believe I can be co-operative. The purpose of parliamentary democracy is to hold to account while at the same time to proffer ideas that may address some of the challenges out there. We speak in hushed tones because the alleged breaches in a company, namely, Independent News and Media, INM, relate to corporate governance. We also speak in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Within the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, one has the office and within that office, one has the individual, the actual director. Will the Minister clarify that she is happy with the director of the office? Is she uncomfortable with the idea that while every individual is entitled to vindicate his or her good name, people would hold the director personally responsible in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Competitiveness (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions being taken to reverse Irish competitiveness deficiencies to make Ireland an attractive location for enterprises to locate in and scale up; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16975/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Competitiveness (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I ask the Minister the actions being taken to reverse Irish competitiveness deficiencies to make Ireland an attractive location for enterprises to locate and scale up. I ask her to make a statement on the matter. I raise this because our competitiveness is under continual threat for a number of reasons, including the increased activity in the economy, with rising employment putting pressure...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Competitiveness (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: We have been here before in terms of competitiveness and the loss thereof as the economy expands and grows quite rapidly. Based on GDP, GNP or any other metrics, there is huge activity in the economy. Key areas in the economy have already reached full employment and we will soon have to address that issue by attracting people into the country. One of the greatest barriers to that will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Competitiveness (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for her reply. We must also address interest rates and the cost of credit to small and medium-sized businesses and mortgage holders because it is much higher than the rates available in other countries in the eurozone. The European Central Bank sets the interest rate for the eurozone. The Irish economy must compete with other economies in the eurozone but our interest...

Other Questions: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she plans to publish an account of the investigative failures identified by a person, details supplied, in regard to a trial; the steps being taken to address them emanating from the trial; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16812/18]

Other Questions: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: When does the Minister plan to publish the account of the investigative failures identified in the Anglo Irish Bank trial, the longest criminal trial in the history of the State, when Judge Aylmer directed the jury to acquit Mr. Seán FitzPatrick? When will the Minister publish the investigation into the role of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, in the collapse...

Other Questions: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: As the Minister well knows, the ODCE is in the High Court seeking to appoint inspectors to Independent News and Media, INM. The reason I raised this particular issue is that it is critically important we have full confidence in the ODCE. By any stretch of the imagination when Judge Aylmer directed the jury to acquit Mr. FitzPatrick, it sent out shockwaves. We heard about the inefficiencies...

Other Questions: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for the reply. When this account is published, we can assess exactly what went wrong in the context of that trial. One can go through it. The judge condemned the ODCE investigation for its inappropriately biased and partisan approach. The judge referred to the coaching of witnesses and, alarmingly, the shredding of important documents carried out by the ODCE. I do...

Other Questions: Personal Injury Claims (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the introduction of legislation to enhance the powers of the PIAB in relation to a recommendation made in the report on the cost of motor insurance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16813/18]

Other Questions: Personal Injury Claims (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: What is the status of legislation to enhance the powers of PIAB on foot of recommendations in the report of on the cost of motor insurance? The Minister might make a brief statement on that and we can then discuss it further.

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Hear, hear.

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Comhghairdeas, a Aire Stáit. Go hiontach ar fad.