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Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Colleagues need to pay attention because amendments 38, 40 and 41 have been withdrawn. If any amendment is agreed to, the following ones cannot be moved. They are in sequence. The first amendment to be put is amendment No. 37 in the name of the Minister.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Amendments Nos. 44 and 45, in the names of Deputies Brady, Cullinane, Joan Collins and Shortall, are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: We are on section 16, amendments Nos. 44 and 45.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Section 16, amendments Nos. 44 and 45. The amendment is also in the name of Deputies Joan Collins and Shortall.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Does the Minister wish to comment?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Yes. We are discussing the two amendments together. The question on them will be put separately.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Is the Deputy pressing the amendments?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: Amendments Nos. 46 to 48, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

John Curran: I thank the Minister and her officials for their attendance and colleagues for staying on a little later to conclude this legislation. I understand Report Stage will be taken fairly shortly.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (17 May 2018)

John Curran: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection has completed its consideration of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 and has made amendments thereto.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 May 2018)

John Curran: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); when stage 2B approval will be granted and the project progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21819/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Data (17 May 2018)

John Curran: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of partial capacity benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21764/18]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

John Curran: The Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, are both well aware that an increasing number of people who are not eligible for social housing cannot afford to buy a home. The reason is that house price inflation is outpacing wage inflation. The Ministers are aware of this development because they responded to it in Rebuilding Ireland by introducing a home loans scheme....

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

John Curran: I wish to ask the Minister about capitation rates in the context of page 90 of the programme for Government, which contains a commitment to "set out capitation rates to schools on a rolling 3-year basis". I recently visited two DEIS schools in my local area, both of which have just over 200 pupils and therefore receive annual capitation fees of approximately €35,000. This is the only...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (16 May 2018)

John Curran: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to finance deep energy retrofit of schools over the coming years to meet climate change rules. [21663/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (16 May 2018)

John Curran: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of home support services at 30 April 2018; the number that were approved and waiting for home support services for each CHO area at 30 April 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21690/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (16 May 2018)

John Curran: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the process involved and the associated timeframe to appoint a board for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21692/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (16 May 2018)

John Curran: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the process involved in the appointment of a new director general for the HSE; the length of time the process will take; the arrangements that will be put in place following the retirement of the former director general and prior to the appointment of a new director general; the reason the position is only being advertised now; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (16 May 2018)

John Curran: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a national ban on plastic straws on environmental grounds. [21664/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (16 May 2018)

John Curran: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a report (details supplied) on local employment services and jobs clubs will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21716/18]