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Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (20 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 505. To ask the Minister for Health when the freestyle libre system will be made available under the long-term illness scheme for persons with diabetes; if availability will not be restricted only to persons with type 1 diabetes but will be made available to everyone on multi-daily insulin injections based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39664/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (20 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 535. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind the decision to remove a pain relief medication (details supplied) from the medical card scheme; if he will reconsider this decision in view of the effectiveness of this product for chronic pain sufferers and the high price of the medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39893/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Waste Disposal (20 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 637. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal position under the Roads Acts regarding wheelie bins being deposited by waste collection companies on metered parking spaces in Dublin city after the company staff have taken them up from the collection point on the footpath and emptied them into the bin lorries; the person or body liable for the wheelie bins in this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme (20 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the background to the handling of an application for back to work enterprise allowance by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the basis on which this application was declined; the social welfare record on which this decision was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39667/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (21 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider withholding development aid from the Myanmarese government in view of the situation in Rakhine province and instead diverting the aid to funding displaced placed person's camps in Bangladesh that are processing Rohingya refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40100/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety (21 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 28 of 12 July 2017, the status of the promised liaison between his Department, An Garda Síochána and other relevant stakeholders to address the issue of nuisance quad and scrambler use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40002/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (21 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the ratification of the UNCRPD; the obstacles that are preventing the implementation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40098/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (21 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for general practitioner referrals to each of the breast health clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40096/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 165. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40097/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to reduce the waiting lists for eye procedures; and if he will implement reforms that would see community and hospital based services working more closely together to improve service delivery. [40099/17]

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: We learned from media reports this morning that the Taoiseach and his Government are considering holding eight different referenda within the next two years. These range from important matters such as repealing the eighth amendment to changing the law on blasphemy to matters such as-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: -----lowering the voting age to 16. There is one glaringly obvious omission from that list, namely, a desperately-needed commitment to amend the Constitution in respect of Article 43. Article 43, as the Taoiseach knows, acknowledges a natural right to private property above any human-made law. It goes on to state that this right must be regulated by the principles of social justice and...

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: It seems the Taoiseach is only interested in the rights of people who have property, not the rights of other people who are on the housing waiting lists, who are homeless and so on. One would have to ask how many homeless does it take for the Taoiseach to recognise the obstacle that is Article 43, and it is most profound, obviously, in regard to housing. The Taoiseach clearly is not...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the review into the ongoing attempts to bring the public services card into widespread use; his views on whether the manner in which this has taken place has caused significant public alarm; his plans in relation to the expansion of the card; the legislative steps he plans to introduce to underpin it; and if he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Department's e-strategy describes the widespread adoption of the public services card as being critical to the success of that strategy. The manner in which the public services card has been rolled out has caused a fair deal of concern and there is significant public apprehension and a lack of trust in regard to the use of the card. I want to know what steps the Minister is taking to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister. I think it important to point out that my query is not about the merits of expanding the system. I understand there are very many reasons to introduce a card like the public services card and I readily acknowledge the benefits of wider e-governance. However, these systems require a level of public trust in order for them to function properly. At present I think a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister has made the case for me in respect of the lack of public confidence in the security of these cards. The Data Protection Commissioner has raised serious concerns. The commissioner has been waiting some time for responses to those concerns and she has insisted that those responses would be published. The public has still not seen those responses. If the system is secure and if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: GDP-GNP Levels (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the figures for potential GDP growth in percentage terms for each of the years from 2002 to 2021; and if he will provide the actual and Government assumed levels for 2015 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40746/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures for the reference rate used by his Department in the calculation of the available fiscal space for each of the years from 2010 to 2021. [40747/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the assertion made by an organisation (details supplied) in its recent pre-budget submission that the Government could increase the level of available fiscal space in the coming years while still meeting its targets under European fiscal rules. [40748/17]