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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Will the Minister explain what is meant by advanced and non-advanced plans?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I agree with Deputy Kelleher. I recently rang my health insurance company to go through the policy I had in the past year. If I become stroppy, say the premium has gone up too much and am about to hang up, they will say they can offer the same premium. Why is maternity cover pushed on women who are over the age where they require such cover? I acknowledge the Minister explained this...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: For men?

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I wish to speak to amendments Nos. 2, 28 and 29. I am specifically speaking to the Harbours Bill and not the An Bord Pleanála planning application, as I strongly believe that An Bord Pleanála is an independent planning entity which, thankfully, will make its determination independent of elected representatives, especially given planning corruption in the past. Whatever decision An...

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I asked the Minister about local property tax and he responded by referring to revenue streams. I am asking about revenue losses. He stated local property tax and the revenue stream-----

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: This is important.

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I want to know who is going to pay for this.

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: If the amendment is accepted, who will pay for it? Will it be householders who pay local property tax and commercial rate payers in the county? If so, this is serious. County councillors in our area are able to reduce local property tax by 15%. If, for example, the local authority takes on the liabilities of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and has to pay salaries, pensions and so on,...

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Who would pay for it?

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am listening very carefully and, in case any one thinks otherwise, I, too, am very supportive of the provision of a diaspora centre, about which I have spoken in this Chamber on a number of occasions. We have two options in company law. Although we will not do it, if we were to vote in this House for a company structure to be dissolved and for county councillors to take over, am I...

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett is against the private sector investing in the harbour, but I am against local property tax and commercial rate payers funding the harbour.

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: On a point of order, I asked earlier if due diligence was taking place and the Minister said it was.

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I ask the Minister to clarify whether due diligence is taking place.

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I welcome the Government's recent announcement of its package of rent stability measures. These are badly needed and will go some way towards providing certainty for both tenants and landlords. The situation could no longer continue whereby tenants were arriving home to find notification letters stating their rent was increasing by 20% or 30% with immediate effect. I have heard of cases...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have two or three very short questions, the first of which is on the opening statement by Ms Anna Cannon. I would like the doctors to comment on it. Ms Cannon's submission states, "The truth is that our girls [most girls, I believe] will still require ongoing and regular pap smear tests, as protection from the HPV vaccine has not been shown to last longer than 8 years." As a non-medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I will be quick. I have a second question and I will skip to the case. I got a text message from a doctor some minutes ago. She said she would not give her daughters the vaccine. I want to ask the doctors before the committee a question. Perhaps it is a little out of order, but this is about what we do with our own children. Would the doctors present give their daughters the vaccine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: When can we get our answers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Are you going to stop the meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I asked a question about the regular Pap smear test. It states in one of the reports that the HPV vaccine has not been shown to last longer than eight years. Can Dr. Connolly comment on that? I also asked - it is personal, but still - whether he would give it to his daughter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I may be wrong, but I thought cervical cancer presented more in older women.