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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: 192. To ask the Minister for Health if the charges of €80 per visit capped at up to €800 per year in certain venesection clinics including Louth hospital will be overturned and the treatment made available for free to persons who cannot access medical cards and cannot afford private health insurance; if this has been reviewed; if a decision has been made; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will share my time with Deputy Barry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will take five minutes at most. I welcome the Minister. I welcome the significant increase in the number of houses, start-ups and so on in my constituency. That very visible increase is a reflection on the Minister, the Department and, obviously, the more focused thinking that has been employed. However, I ask the Minister to address certain areas that require further consideration....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Apologies have been received from Deputy Troy. Will members, please, turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the broadcasting and recording equipment? There is a matter I wish to raise in private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: The minutes of the meeting on 28 November have been circulated. Are they agreed to? Agreed. Before we commence the main item of business, I wish to deal with some correspondence. No. 2018/363, (a), (b) and (c), is an email from Ms Cathy Corcoran on behalf of the co-working group of the Lower Kimmage Road Residents Association concerning the objections to the Lower Kimmage Road...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Whatever is acceptable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: If it is helpful, we can do two things. First, we will have a meeting next week, at which right now we have no business to conduct. We could use it to address the work programme for the new year. The invitations about which the Deputy talked could then be issued. Would that meet the Deputy's wishes? The meeting is to be held next Wednesday morning, which I am advised by the clerk is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is a very important point. As I understand it, the Minister was anxious that the legislation would proceed, but a number of members felt it should be left until the new year to give it appropriate time, given its importance and the issues affecting their constituencies and so on. I was informed yesterday by the Department that it would not proceed to Committee Stage next week, even if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: That leaves a vacant time slot next week. I trust everybody is happy with that proposal. It will not be a long meeting. We can circulate a proposed working programme for next year and we can put Deputy Catherine Murphy's request at the top of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will have all of those. We will ask for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will have them before the meeting. That concludes that item of correspondence, and I trust everybody is happy with that. No. 2018/365 is an email I received concerning the Airport Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill which I circulated to the committee members. A second email was received from another gentleman expressing his views on it, which was circulated to the members. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Deputy's correspondence is officially noted. Deputy Catherine Murphy's correspondence is also noted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: The purpose of today’s meeting is the committee’s consideration of the BusConnects core bus corridors project. I welcome our witnesses, Ms Anne Graham, chief executive officer, and Mr. Hugh Creegan, deputy chief executive, of the National Transport Authority. For the purpose of the witnesses attending, in accordance with procedure, I am required to read the following notice....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Ms Graham for her opening statement. Many Deputies and Senators who are not members of this committee, particularly those from Dublin city, are interested in this significant issue. I know there are transport issues in Limerick as well. As I said at the beginning, I will call members of the committee first and non-members from a list thereafter. I am including Deputy Shortall as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: As Senator O'Mahony has no questions, and as no Fianna Fáil member is present, I call Deputy Munster of Sinn Féin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I wish to allow members of the committee to take precedence. In fairness, members should have the first opportunity to speak. However, Deputy Shortall is the official nominee of Deputy Paul Murphy. Is Deputy Munster agreeable that I call her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Deputy. Senator Humphreys was the first to arrive, he was here before I came. I understand Deputy Eamon Ryan has a speaking slot in the Dáil, is that the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: In fairness to the NTA, I have asked that question in previous meetings and it is committed to strategic improvements in the urban environment apart from the physical changes that will happen because of the new routes. I call Deputy Kevin Humphreys or rather Senator Kevin Humphreys. I am promoting him again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am being nice to Senator Humphreys today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I call Deputy Maria Bailey first and then Deputies Ellis and Lahart.