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Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Not too many of them were built after 2009.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Only on health.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Taoiseach has undoubtedly been busy. I have some questions about the Cabinet Committee on Health. The Taoiseach told us some time ago that this committee was going to drive forward reform as identified in the Fine Gael manifesto and the programme for Government. The universal health insurance process was the major plank of reform the Government identified, together with the abolition of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are talking about crime.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will come back to the issue at hand.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have seen the closure of 139 Garda stations. We were told that this would allow greater flexibility and that gardaí would be more visible, active and high profile but in reality, that has not happened. One also wonders what is happening with those 139 stations. The buildings were all of some importance in their local communities. In Kildare, for example, we saw three Garda...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I think the Taoiseach will accept there is widespread public concern about crime in urban and rural areas. Over the past 12 months we have probably heard more about rural crime than we have ever heard before although an analysis of the figures shows that crime is a problem in our urban areas as well. It is good to hear the Taoiseach proposes to convene a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Taoiseach had a plan in 2007 to get rid of trolleys. He had a plan and made a promise to introduce universal health insurance which was abandoned last month by the Government. He got rid of the National Treatment Purchase Fund which was working effectively. The Taoiseach has agreed a plan to deal with the situation in emergency departments. It is clear that it will add to waiting...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is not meaningless to the people on trolleys.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Why did the Taoiseach not do away with it? Why did he not abolish it?

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Taoiseach has had five years to do it.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I assume every Member will want to congratulate the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, on coming up with a resolution that has resulted in the deferral of threatened industrial action in our accident and emergency departments, but, unfortunately, a consequence of the late resolution of the problem was that hundreds of patients across the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Minister for Health said that next year's budget will maintain existing levels of service but we all know what that means. Interestingly, last weekend, the chief executive officer of the HSE, Mr. Tony O'Brien, said, "The health service has been on death row since 2011" and there is no money, no plan and no vision. Does the Taoiseach agree with Mr. O'Brien that there is no money, no...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a reduced level of rent supplement is being paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the rate will be increased as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 440. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive plans to develop a methadone dispensing centre at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare, the support services which will be put in place for proposed users of the centre, the consultation there has been with the local community or with social care providers in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 452. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Saint Brigid's Hospice, also known as the Drogheda Memorial Hospital, on the Curragh in County Kildare including the extent of the works being undertaken, the timescale for completion of the works and the re-opening of the hospice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45177/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Administration (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 592. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the voluntary and co-operative funding schemes, if the capital assistance scheme will provide residential care or nursing home type accommodation and if accommodation provided in designated centres under the Health Information and Quality Authority, or in cases where residents cannot hold an individual...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Data (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 662. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of pedestrian road deaths, by county in each of the years from 2005 to date, in tabular form. [45397/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy (15 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 663. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce legislation or regulations to place a mandatory or statutory obligation on pedestrians walking on unlit roads at night to wear high-visibility clothing, if such an obligation would enhance road safety for pedestrians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45398/15]

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I wish to raise the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill again. This Bill was introduced in the Seanad and Committee Stage in the Dáil was completed in March 2013. The Bill has profound implications for people who have had convictions imposed on them and who now want to move on with their lives. They are being impeded from doing that due to the lack of legal provision to deal...