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Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: I am getting the exact figures for the Deputy.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: No. What is involved is that the allocations are being given to the funded bodies and it is a matter for the funded bodies to decide how they will maintain a service with the reduced allocations they are receiving because of the economic and financial realities we have to contend with, no matter what Government is in power. In each case they must decide how best they will deploy those...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: I understand the figure is less than €5 million but I will obtain that information for the Deputy. It is a total spend of——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: ——on a total spend of €20 billion.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: I have every confidence in the commitment and competence of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy John Moloney, who has responsibility in this area. He has displayed a very clear commitment and has engaged very intensively with all stakeholders in the area of mental health. I support him and have been supporting him in every way I can to deal with the question of the historical...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: Regarding that matter, the Minister of State has indicated that the HSE and HIQA have agreed that progressive non-statutory implementation of the HIQA standards will now commence and will become the benchmark against which the HSE assess both its own directly operated facilities and other facilities funded by the HSE. Challenges exist to moving immediately to full statutory implementation of...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: A draft delegation order is being prepared. Questions are to the Minister for Finance this afternoon which will allow Members to ask detailed questions on this issue. We are designating the NTMA to deal with the banks in regard to areas which are currently a matter for either the Central Bank, the regulator, the Department of Finance or the NTMA. Our objective is to have the story told in...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: If it is a requirement for it to do so, that will happen. The Minister for Finance will provide the details this afternoon.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: I do not know where the Deputy got that figure. It is a gross exaggeration.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: It is a gross exaggeration. The report of the inspection of the private TLC care centre in Maynooth was published by the Health Information and Quality Authority and identifies a litany of problems with the facility. HIQA carried out a follow-up inspection in the last week of January which showed an improvement in the level of care provided and identified some issues which are being...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: I have no information on that report. The Deputy will have to put down a question to the Minister.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: In regard to the Bill to which the Deputy referred, for which I am responsible to the House, it will be published during the course of the year. I am not here to answer specific questions on health.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: When this issue was raised yesterday by Deputy Naughten, I indicated that the Department of Health and Children is preparing regulations to introduce controls relating to a range of substances on sale in head shops. These regulations are similar to those recently introduced in the United Kingdom, although I understand the latter have run into some legal trouble.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: That is an operational matter for Teagasc and the latter has nothing to do with forestry.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: A two-Bill approach is being proposed to make legislative progress in this area during 2010. The first Bill will be relatively short and will concentrate on the reform of the regulatory structures in the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland. The second Bill will facilitate the other legislative changes that are needed to reform and enhance the functions and powers of the...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: No motion has been tabled to withdraw the Bill. It has not been withdrawn. A great deal of work has been done. The stakeholders are being consulted on an ongoing basis.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: Let me just tell you that.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: The stakeholders include the apartment owners' network, the Law Society and others.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: The apartment owners' network——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Brian Cowen: The Bill is in the Seanad.