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Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: This morning's action is as a direct result of a political decision not to proceed with the opening of a facility in Ballinasloe - a €3.2 million spend on a brand-new unit and the only ligature-free unit in the HSE. It was never opened and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, transferred services and centralised them around Galway University Hospital, GUH. The unit has been...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister made reference to difficulties in recruitment in his response, and I thank him for the clarity on the matter. However, one of the biggest difficulties we have with recruitment is the political decision to time-delay it. The HSE's service plan refers to a preference to recruit in December, not in January. Therefore, in the small print somewhere else there is a reference to not...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Or the Isle of Man.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Deputy Ó Snodaigh should not be robbing my remarks.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make special provision for independent voting by visually impaired, incapacitated and illiterate voters.I will briefly explain the substance of this Bill. People with sight loss difficulties, reading and writing difficulties or capacity issues face additional obstacles when they want to vote. Some of these obstacles could...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (28 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16273/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 274. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an urgent appointment for heart surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16427/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 275. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for an awaited procedure as the person is on the waiting list for five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16431/15]

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: What is he hiding?

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is only as long as one makes it.

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: She is very touchy.

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Correct. We were promised an inspiring drama, but today turned into a pantomime, although there was little humour over the past two days. Many people see the farce that the spring statement has become. For months, the Government, the spin doctors and the boys and girls in the corridors have been briefing the media on the plans for the forthcoming budget ahead of the next general election....

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Moriarty tribunal report, which was delivered early in 2011, almost simultaneous with the formation of the current Government - contained very serious findings against two named individuals, a former Fine Gael Minister and a prominent businessman. There was much pious rhetoric in this House and much hullabaloo about what was going to be done in the next four years and in the programme...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether not extending all Intreo services to persons with disabilities throughout Ireland, including all the voluntary activation schemes, for example, the Youth Guarantee scheme and Momentum, regardless of payment type that the disabled person is on, discriminates against persons with disabilities when they seek activation and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 57. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the proposals she will bring forward to ensure that persons with disabilities will not be worse off if they take up employment opportunities; the way she proposes to make work pay for persons with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17245/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insolvency Service of Ireland Data (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 261. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the administrative cost of running the Insolvency Service of Ireland in 2014; the total fees received by the service in 2014; the total number of cases completed across each category of insolvency arrangement; the budget allocated to the service for 2015; the total staff currently employed by the service; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, broken down by Health Service Executive area, the number of paramedics the HSE plans to hire in 2015; the number of positions that have currently been filled; the number that are currently in the recruitment process; if all these positions will be opened to external candidates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17220/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health posts due, under the budget 2015 allocation of €35 million, to be advertised at the end of Quarter 1 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17287/15]