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Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (20 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposals by a society (details supplied) to make major changes to the position of pharmacists assistants, which it is lodging with his Department again, will be rejected in view of the fact that it will make the position of many assistants nationally untenable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8590/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social Insurance Payments (21 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) was charged €500 for PRSI for the year ending 31 December 2017 in view of the fact they have not been charged for PRSI in previous years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8811/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (21 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is listed as the owner of a property (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the way in which he became the owner; if he has given consideration to handing it over to a local community group that wish to refurbish it as a historic building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8891/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (21 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will direct the OPW to expedite an application by Tipperary County Council for funding for flood relief works at Drish, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8904/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (21 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person or body Bord Bia has commissioned to carry out quality assurance audits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8890/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (21 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct TII to provide an update on progress to carry out work at Turtulla Cross, Thurles, County Tipperary; the timeline for the work to be completed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8922/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Data (21 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenant purchase scheme agreements entered into by Tipperary County Council in each of the years 2011 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8905/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Data (21 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the criteria for the local authority tenant purchase scheme will be reviewed in order that local authorities can commence to offer the scheme in a meaningful and effective way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8906/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I want to raise the issue of working school principals whose administrative workloads are increasing. In County Tipperary, a number of principals have resigned because they cannot cope with their workloads. Has the Minister for Education and Skills advanced any plans to increase the number of administrative days for working school principals?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are regulations which would stop the board of management of a school (details supplied) from designing an extension to the classrooms and applying for planning permission from the local authority with a view to presenting it for funding at some stage in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9620/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when the construction of the modular unit of South Tipperary General Hospital will be completed; if the €7.5 million required to staff it has been allocated in budget 2019; if the recruitment process to staff the unit has commenced; the length of time the recruitment process will take; if the unit will be in a position to take patients by August...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 491. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if proposals will be brought forward for a pilot programme for a deposit return policy for plastic bottles to commence the process of reducing the amount of plastic dumped in the environment annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9530/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Professor More for a very detailed presentation. He has studied TB eradication in this country in great depth. We want to be sure we do not eradicate the farmer while we are trying to cure the problem. On the cost-sharing between Government and industry, farmers have been paying for TB testing for several years. It is not an insignificant cost at farm level. When farmers agreed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Murphy for his presentation. We have had a very detailed discussion on TB. I do not have much else to say on the matter. I see that there is a control programme for Johne's disease. I have serious concerns about this control programme. I refer to the tests we talked about earlier and the practice of leaving reactor animals on farms. I have no confidence in our current test...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I do not understand some of the points Mr. Neary made. At present, a group of veterinaries get together, form a partnership and have a company and Mr. Neary stated a corporate body cannot issue an invoice. When a person gets a bill from his or her veterinarian at present, it is coming from the company. I do not understand how Mr. Neary can say that about the ownership. For instance, I get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I understand now. I apologise to Mr. Neary for stopping him in his tracks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I do not remember that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Only UCD.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I want to go back to the Veterinary Council and the corporate ownership of practices. Where is that at? Mr. Neary said there is no corporate governance at present. What does the Veterinary Council do? It was stated that a huge number of practices are under negotiation for sale and four have gone through. Will Veterinary Ireland propose that legislation should be changed? Where does it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Jackie Cahill: That is a serious statement.