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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I thank the Chairman.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Amendment No. 14 provides an opportunity for the Minister to give technical advance notice, at an enterprise or business level, of any proposed changes, increases or decreases, of the national minimum wages. The amendment seeks a sufficient lead-in time for the enterprise or employment to provide for a planned and orderly introduction of an amendment to changes with respect to payroll,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I move amendment No. 14:In page 6, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following:“(5) Where the Minister declares an order for any increase to the national minimum wage, a sufficient lead-in period should be made available for this new rate to be met in a planned way.”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I move amendment No. 17:In page 8, line 16, after “persons” to insert “, one of whom shall be a person currently managing a small to medium sized enterprise,”. The objective of amendment No. 17 is to insert after “persons”, “one of whom shall be a person currently managing a small to medium sized enterprise”. The amendment speaks for...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: There is none here either.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (2 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 178. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 16 June 2015, his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway who is verging on becoming totally blind as a result of rapidly accelerating cataracts, who is enduring extreme mental distress and anxiety as a result of swiftly deteriorating eyesight and who has been denied the comfort and...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The personal debt crisis is fraught with economic, financial and, most important, social consequences. The Government has failed to address the issue of mortgage debt. Today, it has even failed to tackle the banks on their gouging of customers with interest rates that are well above the European average. Fianna Fáil has proposed constructive and workable solutions to the issues of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Free Movement of Capital (7 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he considers capital controls within a monetary union to be consistent with an optimal currency zone, or even with a monetary union, that may not satisfy the conditions of an optimal currency zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27131/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (7 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 324. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for a magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scan at University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27158/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 378. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 848 of 9 June 2015, and the response from the Health Service Executive of 30 June 2015, which quoted the mean waiting time for orthopaedic surgery in Galway University Hospital as 103 days and the median waiting time as 59 days, the position in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway, if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27428/15]

Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: In late February of this year, shortly before Fianna Fáil moved our motion on the same issue that is dealt with in the legislation before us this evening, I met with a constituent in my office. For the purpose of this debate, I will call him Shane. The Minister seems to find that amusing, but it is he who is letting the banks gouge ordinary families. If he thinks it a laughing matter...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance (9 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: There is none here.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take on foot of recent Health Information and Quality Authority inspection reports of residential centres for persons with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27792/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: We have seen a number of damning HIQA reports that were recently published which highlighted the Government's serious failure with respect to disability services. I refer to reports on the St. John of God service in Drumcar and Cregg House in Sligo. Is the Minister concerned about the reports? Is it not evidence of the lack of political will at Cabinet with respect to providing the best...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I fail to see how the Minister is committed to the disability sector. The parliamentary question was not about the regulatory standards, it was about providing resources for people with disability. Is the Minister not appalled at the Cregg House report, which found that the chronic staffing levels due to cuts to staff resources had "a direct impact on the quality of life for residents"? ...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister's unedifying response is a distraction from his commitment to provide for the most vulnerable people. If he was less focused on providing for the pensions of retired politicians and more enthusiastic about providing resources for people with disability, I would not be asking this question today. Will the Minister reverse the cuts he strategically planned against people with...

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Children are going to school impoverished. The Tánaiste is taking money off them.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Government is taking money from homeless people and-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Around 1,100 children are sleeping in hotels. The Government took their homes from them.