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Local Government Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (4 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill again. The Minister of State knows my view. I am not in favour of the Bill. As I stated on Second Stage, it is disingenuous and an insult to the intelligence of the people of Galway to have just two lines in the Bill stating that a new chief executive will be appointed to oversee the merger of Galway city and county. Galway is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (4 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: 530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the name and site locations of salmon farm companies using wild wrasse as cleaner fish on salmon farms here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50579/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Indemnity Scheme for Landowners (4 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: 629. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timeframe for the publication of a national indemnity scheme to indemnify private landowners against recreational users of their land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50448/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: I will be very brief. The remains of a foetus which has been the subject of a surgical termination should be disposed of in an appropriate setting. There is legislation in place which requires the appropriate disposal of clinical and biological waste. I am of the view that we should legislate so that the remains of foetuses should also be disposed of appropriately and in a dignified...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: I will be brief. I oppose the Bill as I do not agree with it. As I have said from day one, I think it is wrong that Galway should be lumped in with Cork. I will refer to the plebiscite in a moment. If a merger is to go ahead it should be a separate Bill going through the Dáil on its own merit not to be added in with Cork. I do not agree with what the Minister of State is proposing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: Will there be a plebiscite on both? What happens if it is rejected by the people? What will be the outcome of that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: Could the Minister say he will enforce the change and go against the will of the people?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: Why was Galway included? Why is the scope of the Bill being widened to include Galway given that only two lines referred to Galway in the original Bill? I do not agree with the proposal and I will oppose it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: It was the Minister of State who made a smart comment earlier.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: Yes, he did.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: I listened with interest to a report on RTÉ's "Morning Ireland" last Wednesday. The report outlined how health administrators and hospitals are asking people to use minor injury units where possible to avoid having to go to busy emergency departments. People attending one such unit in Smithfield in Dublin were glowing in their praise for the speed with which they were being seen and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: I asked the Tánaiste to provide a minor injuries unit on the grounds of Merlin Park University Hospital. There are 11 such units throughout the country in major urban cities. University Hospital Galway services the west. At one point the Tánaiste said there were no plans to build a unit, but then he said it would be considered in the report or appraisal that will be carried out....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: The Tánaiste said it will not be built.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: 163. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a reablement home care service in County Galway, similar to the successful programme introduced as a pilot scheme in the Dublin north city area and subsequently established there as a permanent service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51267/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: 246. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if grants are available for the provision of outdoor arenas, outdoor rings or sand arenas for equestrian centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51266/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: 247. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if grants are available through his Department, the LEADER programme or other schemes for the provision of outdoor arenas, outdoor rings or sand arenas for equestrian centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51265/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: As I am not a member of the committee, I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to come in for a few moments. Can the chief executives outline how many people in their areas are in emergency accommodation and what they plan to do to get them out of it and into proper accommodation? Are the numbers decreasing or increasing? Is it still down to the developer, landowner or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: There is no way we would miss him.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: I concur with my colleagues, Deputies Ó Cuív and Connolly. I would have liked to have been able to have come into the Dáil and to this meeting and said that I supported this Bill because it is the future for Galway. It is not, it is ill thought out and it is being rushed. Proper debate and discussion has not taken place. The Minister of State has to listen to the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Noel Grealish: That is codology.