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Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: As I said beforehand, we will endeavour to have the motion this evening.

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: Again, to answer the question, the intention of Government is to have the motion before the debate this evening.

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: If that is not possible, we will revert to the Business Committee tomorrow.

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: The objective is to bring the motion to the House this evening. If that happens then the Deputy's request will not need to be acceded to.

Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Motion (11 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: I move:That the Order of the Dáil of 1st June, 2016, as amended by the Order of the Dáil of 13th December, 2016, relating to the special all-party Committee on the Future of Healthcare, be amended in paragraph (l) by the deletion of ‘28th April, 2017’ and the substitution therefor of ‘31st May, 2017’.”

Business of Dáil (11 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: Following our conversation earlier with regard to the Order of Business, it is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the Order of the Dáil today, that: (1) statements on water will not now take place tonight; and (2) the motion re the report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services shall be taken tomorrow evening after the statements of...

Business of Dáil (12 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the Order of the Dáil yesterday, that the Dáil sit later than 10.15 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn on the conclusion of the motion re report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services. The further revised arrangements in respect of the motion shall be as follows: the motion, if not previously...

Business of Dáil (12 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: I hope this is the last one I will be making today. It is proposed, not withstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow in order to take pre-European Council statements, which shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion within 85 minutes. The statements shall be confined to a single opening round for a Minister or Minister...

Education (Guidance Counselling Provision) Bill 2017: First Stage (13 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: No.

Trade Union (Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces) Bill 2017: First Stage (13 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: No.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Apr 2017)

Regina Doherty: 260. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed to provide occupational therapy in County Meath; the number of vacant occupational therapy positions in County Meath; when these vacant positions will be filled; the number of persons waiting to receive occupational therapy; the time these persons have been waiting on treatment; the overall size of the backlog; the expected...

Standing Orders: Motion (2 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: I move:That the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business be amended by the adoption of the following Standing Order in substitution for Standing Order 21: ‘Quorum. 21. (1) The quorum necessary to constitute a meeting of the Dáil shall be twenty members, save where the sitting commences earlier than 12 noon, when it shall be ten members. (2) The...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (2 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 6th May, 2016, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Job Creation Data (2 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment (ILO) in the State. The most recent figures available are for Q4 2016. Seasonally adjusted estimates of employment are produced at State level only. Changes in the seasonally adjusted QNHS employment series can be calculated on a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: CSO Data (2 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: Irish Life Tables are calculated based on population data from the census and 3 years mortality data centred on the census year. Therefore Irish Life Tables 17 will be based on population data from the 2016 census, and mortality data from the years 2015, 2016, and 2017. The Central Statistics Office intends to publish the Life Tables in early 2019, 3 years after the 2016 census.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population Data (2 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: The ethnicity question on the census, which was first used in 2006, was agreed following consultation with various bodies such as the Equality Authority, Pavee Point and others. The CSO works hard to ensure that the information collected on the census remains relevant to the changing needs of the economic and social life of the country. For the 2011 census there were two new questions...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Central Statistics Office Reports (3 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Central Statistics Office, CSO, convened the economic statistics review group, ESRG, in September 2016. The report of the group was published on 3 February 2017, along with the CSO’s response to the report. The focus of the ESRG was to identify a suite of analyses or indicators which would provide a better understanding of the domestic components of our highly globalised economy....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Central Statistics Office Reports (3 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: With regard to Deputy Broughan’s question about leprechaun economics, Mr. Lane was clever in so far as when we established the ESRG, he invited two members of EUROSTAT to sit on the committee to ensure they would be party to all of the hearings and analytical data that fed into why we were creating GNI*. There was a rational reason for the growth rate. The 26% increase in the 2015...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Central Statistics Office Reports (3 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: To answer Deputy Broughan's question, the gross domestic product, GDP, will continue to be the denominator for the deficit and debt ratios under the fiscal compact rules. GNI* will just be an alternative denominator for use below the line in the ratio analysis when aggregates such as deficit, debt or investments are being expressed as a percentage of the indicator of the size of the economy....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (3 May 2017)

Regina Doherty: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not yet available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment (ILO) in the State. The most recent figures available are for Q4 2016 when there were 2,048,100 persons aged 15 years and over in employment in the State.