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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (11 Mar 2014)

Catherine Byrne: 528. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment to be assessed for a specially adapted pram that is urgently needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11714/14]

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the important issue of social housing and homelessness. Social housing in this country is at crisis levels. Every day of the week, I receive queries from people seeking short-term, long-term and emergency housing but sadly there is very little out there for them at present. The demand for social housing has always been high but in recent years with...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I have spoken to him a number of times.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Catherine Byrne: The Minister of State should consider transforming properties for use by the many people with disabilities who cannot cope otherwise. That situation needs to be examined. Another scheme under way involves a €30 million investment to improve the energy efficiency of local authority housing.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I so move.

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I commend the Minister for Social Protection on introducing a raft of new measures and schemes to encourage young people and those of all ages to go back to work. Gateway is a scheme which aims to bridge the gap between unemployment and re-entering the workforce. I grew up in an area where the community employment scheme was part of what was happening in the community. People who went on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Suicide in Ireland: Discussion (13 Mar 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I will be brief. I thank Senator Gilroy for the report he compiled which is very interesting. I am conscious there might be people watching these proceedings on television at home and I want to assure them that although we are talking about suicide and statistics we know we are talking about their loved ones and that they are not statistics. I want to make that point because it strikes me...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I am glad to come back in on this issue. In recent weeks the Government launched a €68 million local authority home building initiative. I welcome this, but as I said previously, this needs to be looked at again because there is a serious housing crisis, particularly in terms of social housing. Other new schemes under way with the support of the Department of the Environment,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I thank everybody for their contributions this morning, and some were very interesting. I will stick to three questions and perhaps I might be able to get some more information. I was disappointed with the response to Question No. 25 as it did not constitute a reply. I asked if the Minister had considered the cost for the introduction of a nicotine replacement programme for pregnant women....

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)

Catherine Byrne: Before Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan leaves the Chamber I wish to agree with what she said earlier about the misuse of accident and emergency departments and how that must be examined. We must ensure that when people come to accident and emergency departments, they come for all the right reasons. If we are to have universal health insurance we must consider what happens in accident and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (17 Apr 2014)

Catherine Byrne: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) had their jobseeker's allowance claim disallowed; if they can re-apply for jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18326/14]

Children First Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I welcome the opportunity to speak about the Children First Bill which is important and long-awaited legislation. The Children First guidelines were first published in 1999 and an important first step in enshrining child welfare and protection measures in law. The guidelines aimed to help in the identification and reporting of child abuse, but they did not place a statutory duty on...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Charges Exemptions (13 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I am informed the sequence is down to the Ceann Comhairle’s office and the availability of Ministers.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services Funding (13 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: The three Deputies sharing are Deputy Dessie Ellis, Deputy Thomas P. Broughan and Deputy Seán Kenny. They will have two minutes each. I call Deputy Ellis first.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (13 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: The next speakers are Deputies Barry Cowen and Michael P. Kitt who are sharing time; Deputy Cowen will have 20 minutes and Deputy Kitt will have ten minutes.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this substantial Bill. I am galled by the Opposition jumping up and down, if not in here, on television, about a housing crisis and homelessness. One would think that for the past 15 years there was no one else in charge of the country who did not take on the responsibility they should have taken on to deal with housing, particularly social housing,...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I will finish on this last important point - I should have watched the clock - which relates to anti-social behaviour. I have spent the past couple of months dealing with anti-social behaviour in my area, with those who have properties such as shops dealing with the scourge of youths rampaging through them, or walking in and taking items off shelves. I had a meeting last week with the...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I am sorry for labouring the point and I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me the extra few minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Help us to Help More Campaign: Irish Medical Organisation (27 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: I will wait for a while until I hear some of the replies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Help us to Help More Campaign: Irish Medical Organisation (27 May 2014)

Catherine Byrne: Yes. I do not know whether I have questions or comments, but I will make them anyway, although the witnesses may not like some of them. I am one of the 95% of patients who express a high satisfaction rating with their GP. I have been going to the same GP for the last 37 years, and I am not 37 so people can do the calculations. Since I moved house I have been with the same GP. I have been...