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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: This is incredible stuff.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: The service level agreement or MOU, call it what you will, under which the Department is operating has expired.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: This is terrible. When one talks about communities on the ground, this is very serious.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: That is what is frustrating me. As I say, this is not personal. Community groups are coming to us where there are gaps that have not got funding in a very difficult time and yet we see that the Department provides a flat-rate fee, it has no service level agreement in place and activity outside of that seems to have been non-existent last year. The Department has no chargeable policy for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: They are not prepared to do it now, if the Department does not have any agreement with them.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if universities and institutes of technology come under the requirements that require staff to be Garda vetted as per requirements of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012; if such requirements are required in circumstances in which staff are close to retiring; the penalties enacted on those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) for an echocardiography will be expedited. [6936/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 424. To ask the Minister for Health the process which has been established regarding pay for section 39 organisations; and if there is a timeframe. [7218/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied). [6937/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if relief measures will be put in place for members of group water schemes in view of the discontinuation of the domestic water charging regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7306/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an initial free water allowance for agricultural holdings that are subject to the water charging regime will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7307/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Orthodontic Services (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Yes.

Topical Issue Debate: Orthodontic Services (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting for debate the critical issue of the shortage of orthodontic consultants in the midlands. We are at crisis point as regards interventions for young children. I met a number of parents at one of my recent weekly clinics in my constituency office who had been affected by this situation. One was a lady whose son had been on the waiting list...

Topical Issue Debate: Orthodontic Services (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: I thank the Minister for her response. She spoke about equality of access but it is very hard for me to go back and explain that to the parents of a nine year old who has been waiting over 18 months or to the 21 year old who has been waiting nine years. It does not ring true. The cross-border initiative is used by a lot of people in the State. Unfortunately, it does not suit everyone...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Trading Online Voucher Scheme (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the uptake of the trading online voucher scheme by county both in 2017 and since the scheme’s introduction; if the scheme is being expanded; if so, if such an expansion will include data protection and cyber security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7261/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fish Farming (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work of his Department and agencies under its aegis on ensuring investment in fish farms by Inland Fisheries Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7262/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will receive guidance on an enrolment anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7591/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [7554/18]

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: I concur with Deputy Pat Deering about the Minister's work on the Bill and the path it has come along since its inception. A huge amount of work has been carried out on it. The Minister has listened to many sectors and business people who are struggling in rural areas. I have a few concerns. It is important that we stand up and take responsibility. We have to lead as a country and accept...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (15 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a request for expressions of interest in the large scale projects under the sports capital programme will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7534/18]