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Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach will have to get used to this.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: What about the Kerry minor footballers? Four in a row.

Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: I was contacted about this important matter by Deputy Martin Ferris and indicated my support for it. I raised it today at the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs where there were dissenting voices but we knew that it would be raised on the floor of this House this evening and decided we would wait and see what would happen on the matter then. The Rural Technical Group's opinion is...

Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: I wish to raise the life-threatening decision taken by the drug company CSL Behring. It is withdrawing the Respreeza drug at the end of September. It is a most serious situation facing 21 people who are citizens of the country. Their health will go into decline at the end of September if this vital drug is taken away from them. It is immoral. I am not blaming the Taoiseach, the...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: I do not blame the Minister for this crisis which is not of his making but it is his position to find the solutions to the problem we have. The one thing our parents, our grandparents and our great grandparents wanted was a home to call their own without being strangled by a mortgage or exorbitant rent. What we want for our children and grandchildren is that they will have homes which will...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 124. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a Brexit regional adjustment fund to provide the regions with new trade routes and to upgrade existing ones; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a single person's child carer credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39145/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sale of State Assets (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposal by the Congress of Trade Unions that the proceeds from the sale of shares in a bank (details supplied) should go towards solving the State's housing and homelessness emergency by diverting these funds into a new social housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39048/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase student funding over the next four years to at least the average rate of other high income western European EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39052/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 372. To ask the Minister for Health his views on allowing primary care resource centres to become ambulatory care hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39055/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 373. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to keep older and newly qualified general practitioners here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39056/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 374. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a new GMS contract that will represent a new opportunity and reimagine the way in which general practice and primary care is delivered here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39057/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39233/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 402. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a knee operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39268/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the relaunched HPV awareness campaign is costing; if a public relations company has been contracted to boost this campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39311/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services Provision (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider removing funding from a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39313/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 409. To ask the Minister for Health if a public relations company is involved in the new HPV awareness campaign; if so, the cost of this contract; the duration of the contract; if there was a tender process; the number of companies that applied for the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39314/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 413. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent comments of a person (details supplied) in which they referred to some of the HPV vaccine campaigns as acts of emotional terrorism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39333/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not circulated the package information leaflet in the HPV vaccine information packs in order that parents may make an informed consent on the vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39339/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (20 Sep 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a shortage of ICU beds in Crumlin hospital particularly in view of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39340/17]