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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I have read the Bill but I cannot recall which sections deal with the cost of joining a professional body and language competence issues.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I will outline my concerns in relation to both issues. As I understand it, the cost of joining a professional body varies greatly. I believe that cost should be as low as possible. While I recognise, given the changing nature of the world, that it is important to have a body for each profession, I do not understand the reason the fee in this regard in the social work area is €250...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: Is there a specific section which deals with the matter?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: Will that be via examination?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I understand the Minister's problem, but is there any way in the meantime that a system can be put in place which forces non-professionally-recognised groups to advertise the fact they are not professionally recognised until something is put in place?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: Will the Minister do so?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: Will he be able to report back on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Community and Voluntary Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I welcome the delegations and apologise for my late arrival. I was here earlier but had to leave to attend to other business. All of us who are Government Deputies have the difficult job of arriving at a budget which will not please anyone but which we need to ensure is as fair as possible, and that is important. In that regard, I ask the Chair if there is any way in which we can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Community and Voluntary Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I thank the Chairman for that information.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I ask the Tánaiste about legislation to abolish the Health Service Executive with my latest frustration with that organisation in view. Questions I asked on 9 October have not been answered by it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Community and Voluntary Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: That does not only happen in Cork.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (8 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: To ask the Minister for Finance the rate at which the pension provisions of senior managers in the banks in which the State has a stake will be taxed; and if he has considered levying a high rate of tax on these pension provisions in order to provide some measure of social equity. [49158/12]

Topical Issue Debate: White Collar Crime (6 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I accept that the Minister for Justice and Equality takes this subject seriously and, as was said in the reply, that he will ensure the relevant authorities have adequate resources to tackle white collar crime effectively. However, an issue came to my attention today. I have asked a number of people how many accountants, solicitors and barristers are working for the Garda fraud squad....

Topical Issue Debate: White Collar Crime (6 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I express my disappointment that the Minister for Justice and Equality is not here because this issue started off as an oral question which was incorrectly disallowed. I was, therefore, given priority for-----

Topical Issue Debate: White Collar Crime (6 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I thank the Minister. I express my apologies.

Topical Issue Debate: White Collar Crime (6 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I appreciate that this topical issue has been chosen. Following several parliamentary questions and some media attention on the matter, statistics from the CSO show that there has been a significant drop in the number of convictions for white collar crime since 2003. Given everything that has happened over those years, I find it disturbing and have raised this as a topical issue because the...

Topical Issue Debate: White Collar Crime (6 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: I understand that.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (6 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the recent interception by Israeli forces of the flotilla sailing to Gaza with basic equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47826/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Illegal Israeli Imports (6 Nov 2012)

Robert Dowds: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the purchase of goods by EU countries from Israeli-occupied areas of the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47827/12]