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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: I also asked about healthcare for soldiers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: I am aware of personnel who are being retired because of the waiting list-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: The Minister of State should ask PDFORA which has had to pay for private diagnostics tests. There are personnel who cannot secure a potential promotion and are being retired against their will. That issue needs to be looked at.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: I have a final question. Has the joint committee requested the Chief of Staff to appear before it since this Dáil commenced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: He could still come before us. Would the Minister of State be happy for him to come before the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: He is accountable to the Minister of State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: Would the Minister of State be happy for him to come before the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: If the committee was to invite the Chief of Staff to discuss defence matters, the Minister of State would have to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: The Minister of State could authorise him to attend the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: The Minister of State will not allow him to attend the committee. He can do so with the authorisation of the Minister of State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)
Jack Chambers: I have asked whether the Minister of State will facilitate the appearance of the Chief of Staff before it.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop improved bus services for persons using the bus to access Connolly hospital and St. Francis Hospice in Dublin 15; his further plans to ensure buses serve the hospital on a more frequent basis and collect and drop off persons closer to the entrance to Connolly hospital; if real time bus displays and a bus shelter...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (3 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a levy (details supplied) on overnight hospital bed stays; if so, the reason the levy exists; the cost in this regard; the persons who are exempt from the levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19343/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (3 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to add the FreeStyle Libre blood monitoring sensor to the long-term illness or drug reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19356/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (8 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: 99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if media reports that in 2016 it cost the taxpayer €15 million to replace Defence Forces personnel that left were accurate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19817/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (8 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: 100. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of the Permanent Defence Force in whole-time equivalent terms, that left the service in each of the years 2013 to 2017, for reasons other than retirement; the branch of the service of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19818/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (8 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: 101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated savings that would be made in terms of training and recruitment if the numbers leaving the Permanent Defence Force in 2018 for reasons other than retirement were halved relative to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19819/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (8 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if transplant patients who must take immunosuppressant medication for the rest of their lives following transplantations will be covered under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19688/18]
- Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: As my colleague mentioned, problem gambling has spiralled out of control. Thousands of lives have been ruined by a failure to regulate the gambling sector. I refer to families destroyed by lies, homes taken away because of massive debts and lives lost because of depression and suicide. We have 1930s-era laws for 2018 problems. When the current rules to control the gambling sector were...
- Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)
Jack Chambers: And Deputy Anne Rabbitte as well.