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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Engagement with Department of Health Oversight Group (30 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Regarding three meetings, how did the group come up with the locations? Dr. Fiona Keogh is looking at me now and thinks that I want to know why Galway was left out. However, I want to know why the locations were not chosen based on the CHO areas. Why was it not broken down that way? Why were only three locations use? I ask this because we talk about A Vision for Change and how it failed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Engagement with Department of Health Oversight Group (30 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I do not want to disenfranchise an area, but Mr. Kane can see where I am coming from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Engagement with Department of Health Oversight Group (30 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Representatives from all the CHOs have been before the committee. They were forthcoming and gave us their time. I ask Mr. Kane to widen the consultation to ensure communities are not left out. Using three locations is too narrow. That is not a criticism. Reference was made to the child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, but Galway is one of the areas that has the required 22...

Maternity Protection (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

Maternity Protection (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Business Committee for affording time for the introduction of this crucial legislation, which is long overdue. I thank my party colleague, Deputy Niamh Smyth, and my parliamentary colleagues for supporting the changes that we have suggested for a long time. There is no doubt that Fianna Fáil takes pride in its effort to expand female participation in politics. As Deputy...

Maternity Protection (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: If we were serious about wanting to improve female participation and recognising our voices, in particular in the week that is in it when we hear of all the women on both sides of the referendum campaign who fought the good fight, yet at the end of the day here we are trying to bring women to the highest office and showing them all of the opportunities but we do it at 7.40 p.m. on a Thursday...

Maternity Protection (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State. As he realised from the beginning, I admitted it was not a perfect Bill. The most important point was the conversation and get that work going in itself. I find that everything is rigid in the Dáil and it is hard to get a space for a conversation about broader issues which impact on so many more. It is quite crude to introduce a Private Members’...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this issue this evening. What Minister would be before me this evening was one of the best kept secrets. I have been trying to find out for a long time who is responsible for parliamentary questions on this matter and under the remit of what Department do they fall. On 28 May I tabled nine questions of which seven were ruled out of...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister of State has answered my question. He has told me it is to do with the county councils so why has the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government not come here to answer my questions? I do not have a problem with the Minister of State's Department, it seems, but rather with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Its people are not answering their...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I did not know until today to whom I should address it.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual losses to the Exchequer which result from retailer VAT reclaims owing to below invoice cost selling of alcohol; the estimated losses to the Exchequer since the repeal of the groceries order in 2006 relating to below invoice cost selling of alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24618/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are other grants available, bar the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, partial grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24738/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of section 12 of the Children's Act recorded on the PULSE system in 2016 and 2017, by each district in tabular form. [24556/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 476. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of section 13 of the Mental Health Act recorded on the PULSE system in 2016 and 2017, by each district in tabular form. [24557/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 590. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out a national scheme to allow children who do not need medical or surgical management to be examined in the community by optometrists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24271/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 591. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out the Sligo cataract scheme nationally with optometrists and hospital eye departments working together; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24272/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 668. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 to include a ban on below invoice cost selling in view of the fact that minimum unit pricing will be delayed pending the formation of a power sharing executive in Northern Ireland in order to ensure the practice of retailing cheap alcohol at below cost cannot continue in the short-term; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 669. To ask the Minister for Health his views on introducing a ban on below invoice cost selling of alcohol to augment minimum unit pricing in view of concerns that minimum unit pricing will not impact the pricing of premium branded alcoholic products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24619/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 670. To ask the Minister for Health his views on introducing a ban on below invoice cost selling of alcohol in view of the fact that minimum unit pricing would still legally allow for a six pack of beer to be discounted by as much as €4.50 from its invoice cost which could not happen if there was a ban on below invoice cost selling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24620/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the average height of children here aged between 6 to 18 years of age according to Irish data or comparative international data which his Department has access to by age bracket and gender in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24621/18]