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Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Yes, a point of order. I am just very disappointed that on the last Stage, I did not get an opportunity to speak.

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I looked at the monitor and-----

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Let me finish. I am on my feet. Let me finish.

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am very disappointed.

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am just very disappointed.

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I just want to express my disappointment. I am not going to labour it.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rebates (21 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding claiming back VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8931/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Assistance Payment (22 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: A distraught family in emergency accommodation in Dundalk has contacted me. This family of four girls is on the Fingal County Council housing list, but had to leave the area to go to Dundalk as they feared for their safety. The family chose to come to this area as it has local connections with relations living there. Fingal County Council has offered to pay for the family's emergency...

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Assistance Payment (22 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I repeat that there are four girls living in one room, with two double beds and no facilities for cooking or washing clothes. As I said, one of these girls is a seven year old child who has a life-limiting, life-threatening metabolic condition and is tube-fed. She is out of school and her health is suffering. I have spoken to a local special...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 489. To ask the Minister for Health the services, facilities and specialists available to children under 16 years of age suffering with EDS (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9957/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (28 Feb 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to re-establish equal pay for equal work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10396/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The rights of grandparents Bill 2013 did not proceed through the Oireachtas. It was intended to deal with issues around grandparents' access to children. It also sought to provide for the continuous development of the relationship and bond between a grandparent and his or her grandchild. The Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 is a child-centred Act which guarantees the right of...

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I will be as quick as I can and any time remaining in my slot will be used by Deputy Breathnach. The UNCRPD was adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2006 and entered into force in May 2008. Ireland became a signatory to the convention in March 2007. The then Fine Gael-Labour Party Government published a roadmap in 2015 which set out the legislative measures needed to meet the...

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Following the end of the public consultation on 9 March, the Department of Health will amend the draft heads of the Bill on deprivation of liberty as necessary, with a view to submitting them to Government in a stand-alone Bill for approval before the summer recess, followed by pre-legislative scrutiny, drafting of the Bill and enactment before the end of 2018. It should be noted that since...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (8 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who has made a claim against the HSE due to negligence has lost their medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10886/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (8 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 346. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for a person (details supplied) who has to take their child privately to be assessed for autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11244/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I listened with consideration to the comments made by the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, this morning. As a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, I am particularly interested in this issue and have made my views well known. I would like to take this opportunity to address the Government's current plans. I believe today to be a very...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Bonds (20 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which a bond owned by a person (details supplied) can be cashed. [12448/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Data (20 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a cap on the legal aid a barrister or solicitor and their firms can make in divorce cases; if there is a disincentive for them to prolong such cases (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12191/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Louth County Council has received €2.2 million from the European Regional Development Fund and the council has matched the funding through development levies, so it has €4.4 million to spend in Dundalk. That money has to be spent very soon. The council intends to spend the money on Clanbrassil Street and Church Street, leaving out Bridge Street and an adjoining street. It was...