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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (27 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans, including the introduction of a gambling commission, to counter the epidemic of gambling, including gambling addiction, among amateur and professional sports persons given the consequences of such unregulated and unmonitored behaviour for persons and their families, interventions or supports in this area; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Congregated Settings Report (2 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 60. To ask the Minister for Health the funding the Health Service Executive will provide in 2016 for moving persons out of congregated settings; the number of persons this will benefit; the proportion of persons currently in congregated settings that will benefit; how long it will take to move all those in congregated settings out of them at this rate of support; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Congregated Settings Report (2 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: The propose of the question is to afford the Minister an opportunity to explain the rationale for the funding provided to the HSE to move vulnerable people from congregated settings. The question also affords the Minister an opportunity to explain the benefits of that strategy, the number of persons in congregated settings who would be positively affected, how long it will take for those in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Congregated Settings Report (2 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: I am sure the Minister of State will agree that progress on moving people from congregated settings has been abysmally poor, and there are over 3,000 people living in congregated settings. The 2015 HSE outturn with respect to the congregated settings indicate that only 150 citizens were moved from the setting. At the time of the publication of the HSE annual service plan, the projected...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Congregated Settings Report (2 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: Some parents have expressed concern with respect to residents moving from the congregated environment to an unfamiliar new experience when compared with their traditional home or setting. Is the Minister of State satisfied the Department has the resources to provide for that adjustment in the community? Unsupported relocation causes great distress. Is the Minister of State satisfied the...

Establishment of a Statutory Commission of Investigation into a Foster Home in the South East: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: As our party leader made clear earlier, the Fianna Fáil Party welcomes the proposal to set up a statutory commission of investigation into the events in a foster home in the south-east. I salute the dedication, commitment and, above all, the actions of the whistleblowers involved. Without them, we would not have heard the details we heard over the past number of weeks and months in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 78. To ask the Minister for Health why the Health Service Executive target for moving persons out of congregated settings was not met in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3886/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 85. To ask the Minister for Health why the Health Service Executive's service plan makes no provision for an increase in the number of personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3885/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 350. To ask the Minister for Health to immediately examine and intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4175/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (3 Feb 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 33. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 26 November 2015, if he reconsidered the case and if he will expedite the granting of funding for these necessary flood relief measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4504/16]