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Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: You are a right-wing, Blueshirt Tory. You are responsible for destroying people with disabilities.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: You are responsible. You went and took 40 shillings, did you not? Forty pieces of silver.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: You took forty pieces of silver. You are a right-wing Tory who attacks the most vulnerable.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: That will be your legacy - forty pieces of silver for your seat. How dare you?

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The ones you created.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: As they did not want to attack the rich, they attacked those with poor mental health and disabilities.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: You took 40 shillings. It was a sell-out, a sell-out of working people.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is not difficult at all. Now that you have betrayed them, chew them up and spit them out - Judas.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 60. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for an orthodontic procedure at Merlin Park Hospital in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35851/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 62. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for an ophthalmic procedure at Galway University Hospital; the reason this person cannot be given a date for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35860/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when his Department will provide funding to Galway County Council for the tenant purchase scheme; the amount of funding that will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35936/15]

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Government parties have attempted to paint the issue surrounding NAMA and the disposal of Project Eagle as a fuss stirred up by some in the Opposition, as an attempt to blacken the name of NAMA, or as a responsibility of the Stormont Assembly. The attitude of the Government with respect to the disposal of State assets alarms me, because we are managing a situation, as Deputy Cowen said,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the key measures under the new comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35284/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on concerns that the new comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities is arriving four years too late for this Government to deliver on the strong commitments made by An Taoiseach and Ministers at the strategy's launch; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35285/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost in 2015 of the wage subsidy scheme; the financial implications to the Exchequer of reducing the minimum hours threshold from 21 hours to 18 hours per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36449/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 704. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of the Dublin Bus fleet that is wheelchair accessible in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36416/15]

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is important to have the debate and to use our parliamentary time to address any of the confusion that exists. This is a very complex area as the Minister of State has said and it is important that we wholesomely engage. Clearly, there is confusion in the process when one has Government backbenchers seeking to amend the Bill. The spirit in which we want to see the Bill progress is...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is clear that the Minister of State has listened during this process, given the scale of the amendments. The spirit of what we are trying to achieve concerns the interests of the people. The Minister of State mentioned that this Bill is not strictly about the perception of a sector within the mental health field. That is well noted. We will support this legislation as best we can...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I welcome the amendment. We agree with the spirit of what the Minister of State is trying to achieve. We have come from an evolving society in which many dark things happened historically. I welcome the amendment of the cold language in many parts of the historical legislation. I welcome the technical amendments, the humanisation of the legislation and the removal of cold language that...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I agree with the Minister of State that this is a significant amendment and we will support it. I would anticipate that there is nowhere in this legislation that the Minister of State would expressly provide for the effecting of consent around marriage, civil partnership, civil relationships, placing children for adoption, any sexual relations, or voting on election days. We had the...