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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: I commend the Dublin Bus workers on their steadfastness and determination to vindicate their rights. I also commend them on their instrumental contribution in returning the company to profit. I hope the unions and the workers show the same solidarity with, and backing for, Bus Éireann Expressway drivers who seem to be heading in the same direction. This is our national bus service....

Topical Issues: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: I am disappointed that the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, is not in the Chamber to be accountable in respect of the serious issue I wish to raise. Is the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, aware of plans by the Health Service Executive to cut primary care services in the Louth-Meath area? The HSE has instructed management in the health service to save €1.5 million...

Topical Issues: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: The first question I asked was whether the Minister for Health would reverse the €1.5 million in cuts to primary care services. I did not get a response to that question. The Minister of State said that 9.5 clerical and administrative staff were "released" from their posts. That is a first. I have never heard of anybody who had a contract terminated with immediate effect going home...

Topical Issues: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: -----who have found again the love that they had for their profession because they are respected in the countries in which they are now working. They have a proper, decent working environment. Again, I ask the Minister of State to answer my question about fast-tracking the approval process for the filling of vacancies. I also ask her to answer the question about reversing the...

Topical Issues: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: That was part of the question I tabled.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (25 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: 554. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount allocated to his Department in budget 2017; the amount allocated to public transport within this figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31520/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (25 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: 555. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount allocated to his Department in budget 2017; and if he will provide a breakdown of the moneys allocated to the various areas within his Department in tabular form. [31521/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities Expenditure (27 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the necessary funding and operating costs to maintain the current phase one development at the National Sports Campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32398/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities Expenditure (27 Oct 2016)

Imelda Munster: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the necessary funding to support the roll-out of phase two of the National Sports Campus; if he will provide a timeline for its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32399/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: 3. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the issuing and amending of commercial bus licences on routes served by existing operators, a practice which has the potential to impact on the employment of 800 workers on the Expressway service; the actions he will take to rectify this situation and safeguard the employment of the workers; if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: I am asking the Minister about the issuing and amending of commercial bus licences on routes served by existing operators. This has the potential to impact the employment of 800 workers on the Expressway service. What action will the Minister take to rectify this situation and safeguard the employment of the workers? Will the Minister convene a consultative forum of all the relevant...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: I know the Minister is aware that Expressway is our national carrier and these plans threaten to drive it to extinction. Since taking office the Minister has not even sought to convene a consultative forum with all the relevant stakeholders to discuss and plan not just the funding but the future of our public transport network. As an incoming Minister he did not see that as a relevant step....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: The Minister has not done it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: I welcome the fact the Minister thinks there is merit in setting up the forum but it is a bit late doing so after the horse has bolted. Expressway is under threat of privatisation. What will the Minister do to rectify that? When Bus Éireann management met the Minister, it said that to continue with Expressway, it would have to be a low pay, low wage project and the Minister did not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: 37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps, particularly in respect of funding, he plans to take to progress the Narrow Water Bridge project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32795/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount allocated to the sports grants for 2017; the groups and clubs which received funding; the amount they received under the sports grant scheme for 2015 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32796/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure the A5 motorway from Dublin to Derry will be realised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32797/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the closing of nine beds in the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda, the threat of closure of the Cottage Hospital, and the closure of nine beds in St. Oliver's in Louth County Hospital, Dundalk; and if he will instruct the HSE to implement a fast-tracking process for the approval of the filling of nursing vacancies at national...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that despite local management of the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda submitting a business case for the approval of the filling of vacancies for nursing posts at the hospital in April 2016, that senior management of the HSE at national level only approved the filling of these vacancies in late September 2016 after...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Imelda Munster: 321. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the promised 100-bed unit at St. Mary's, Dublin Road, Drogheda; the stage at which this new unit is at; and when he expects the 100-bed unit to be open. [32711/16]