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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (5 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card appeal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry [11337/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (5 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11415/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (5 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments he has made from March 2011 to January 2013 to State boards; in the case of each appointment, the number of appointments that were made to members of the general public who submitted a curriculum vitae for the appointment; the number of direct appointments he made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11477/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (5 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11530/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the reason more than 1,000 patients with neurological conditions such as M.S. are waiting over four years to see a specialist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11582/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (5 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of appointments he has made from March 2011 to January 2013 to State boards; in the case of each appointment, the number of appointments that were made to members of the general public who submitted a curriculum vitae for the appointment; the number of direct appointments he made; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: If one does not have that qualifying criterion, one does not get an appointment.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I can answer the Deputy if he wants but I will answer through the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I had to be removed from a board on which I was working very well because I was not a member of Fine Gael or the Labour Party. I had to be replaced by people the Minister hand-picked.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: Therefore, Deputy Simon Harris should not come to the Chamber to make an insinuation or slur on my character.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: My record was excellent. The Deputy can be sure that the behaviour of some of his Ministers has been a disgrace. I could start naming them here but I will not.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would not do that myself. Deputy Harris has drawn this on himself. If he wants me to go down the road of talking about his Government's appointments to State boards-----

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: They are a sham. If Deputy Harris tries to defend that, he will have gone down in my estimation big time in the last couple of minutes.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: If he tries to stand over that, he is standing over the indefensible. I wish SOLAS well and hope that in the years ahead the people who require skills improvement and training will get it and that it will be successful.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Technical Group for allocating some of its speaking time to me. I acknowledge the presence of the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon. We were very glad when he visited County Kerry a number of months ago to attend the launch of an informative and comprehensive booklet outlining the various courses and further educational opportunities that are available for people who find...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would have no problem supporting this amendment because I would not like to see what is happening in this instance happen at all. There is no sense in gerrymandering with regard to constituencies that have helped each other and worked very well over many decades.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: Nobody is taking rural areas and the difference between the work of Deputies based in cities and areas with large populations and those in more rural areas into consideration when making changes to constituencies. Many Deputies representing the greater Dublin area can walk the length and breadth of their constituencies in a couple of minutes. Compare that to the work a rural Deputy must do...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am quite happy to face into north Kerry any day of the week and to represent the people to the best of my ability and thanks be to God, the Minister will not have any say in that.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister will be in a different place at that stage.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: He will have a nice little role by the time it comes to that. I support Deputy Ó Cuív's amendment. I appreciate the thrust of it and I know it has been tabled in a genuine and heartfelt way on behalf of his constituents which is why I support it.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I wish the Minister well in his endeavours on this very important subject. As a retailer who has been selling cigarettes for over 20 years, I have seen and studied people's habits when it comes to cigarette smoking. As the Minister himself said, it is terribly important to do everything we possibly can to stop the younger generation from starting smoking. I have every sympathy, as I know...