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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Disability Services Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on housing records released by his Department under the Freedom of Information Act, which show that just 90 persons out of a target of 300 persons have been transferred from congregated settings over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38221/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (5 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer in 2016 of extending the wage subsidy scheme to those in receipt of partial capacity benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38705/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (5 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sections of the Disability Act 2005 that still have to be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38856/15]

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Guff.

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for this speaking time. I acknowledge the dedication, commitment and, above all, actions of Deputy Kelleher in proposing such a comprehensive motion on emergency departments. Eventually, one gets used to the Government's style of counter-motions that are tabled week after week. Tonight's is a half-hearted, sly acknowledgement of a problem, yet it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 429. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway, who is in considerable continuous pain and who was referred several weeks ago, will be scheduled for an appointment to see a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Merlin Park hospital in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39393/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Applications (11 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when urgently needed funding will be made available by the Office of Public Works for the drainage of swallow holes and the cleaning of the channel from Grannagh to Blackrock in Peterswell in County Galway, funds which were applied for in August 2015 for critically necessary works which aim at alleviating and resolving the severe...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (11 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 132. To ask the Minister for Health for a report on the outbreak of Clostridium difficile at Portiuncula Hospital in County Galway; and the action being taken to deal with it. [39771/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (11 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway who despite being deemed eligible to apply for a grant for the support of survivors of institutional abuse by Caranua on 11 March 2014, and to whom Caranua confirmed in writing on 10 April 2014 that all documents had been received to process this grant; that despite...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (12 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway had four appointments for the fitting of a pubic catheter cancelled at the last minute; at a policy level, the measures he has directed to be taken to ensure that the health service provides proper respect and regard to a person's time, particularly in regard to the distress and inconvenience caused by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (12 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the counselling service in the primary care service, including the numbers referred to, seen by and on waiting lists for community health-care organisations in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39893/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Infant Mental Health: Discussion (12 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I thank Professor Nugent and Ms Mitchell. It was inspired to combine a strong medical aspect and a process aspect in the discussion. It was an important mix. What jumped out at me in Ms Mitchell's presentation was the issue of gaps in services. It appears that the current policy, A Vision for Change, which will be ten years old next year, was not resourced adequately to achieve the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Infant Mental Health: Discussion (12 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It underpins the seriousness of early intervention. Does he believe there is a role for the introduction into the education curriculum, either at preschool or in the early school years for cognitive behaviour therapy, CBT? That would be one area to develop in terms of some self awareness for children to recognise the source of issues that arise. Professor Nugent's description of the early...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (17 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) in County Galway should be forced to await the processing of an appeal on an invalidity pension application since April 2015 and based on a conversation with the appeals section, it is quite feasible that this delay will extend to April 2016, which will leave the applicant in a state of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (17 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant gynaecologists who are assigned to Galway University Hospital and to the entire Health Service Executive west administrative area; the details of their deployment; the facilities within this area; the waiting times for appointments and procedures, other than those directly related to routine pregnancy and childbirth; and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: He was referring to Fine Gael.

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Your model is down the drain.

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Waiting lists.

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Children are waiting three years for an intervention.

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It will be a tall order in Roscommon.