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Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013 fulfils a commitment made in the programme for Government on future health. The Bill is designed to disestablish the HSE Vote, have HSE funding come under the Department of Health's Vote and establish a statutory financial governance framework for the HSE. The health reform agenda set out in the programme for Government includes a...

Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The health information Bill is to provide a legislative framework for the better governance of health information and initiatives include data matching and health information resources for use in the health services. When can we expect its publication?

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: With school places and entry exams coming up, families are very concerned that their children might not get the proper opportunity for an education. When can we expect the education (admission to school) Bill, which is to ensure the process for enrolment by schools is more open, equitable and consistent?

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013 aims to restrict and regulate the use of sunbeds in order to protect the public from the risk of skin cancer posed by UV radiation exposure. The Bill would ban sunbed operators from allowing the use of sunbeds by people aged under 18 on their premises or through sale or hire to this age group. It also introduces a mandatory notification system for those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I have asked Mr. Donaldson four direct questions but I have not got any answers yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I will not be long but, in fairness, I have attended every session so far.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I want to welcome all the witnesses. I keep asking myself why some people smoke. I have never smoked, so I do not know what a cigarette tastes like. My father used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day and he died of lung cancer at the age of 74. In fairness to my father, however, he never smoked in the house, which was a good thing. Some 5,200 Irish people die every year from smoking related...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill was to extend and strengthen the regulatory framework for social housing, including a statutory underpinning for the new scheme of housing assistance payments, the repossession of local authority dwellings and to provide for a new tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines. The problem I have at the...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Many families come into my constituency office-----

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Many families have come into my constituency office. The major problem they have is that they cannot get their names off the deeds of their houses.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: This means they are not entitled put their names down for social housing. What I am asking is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for coming here. Over the past number of weeks I have learned a lot about smoking. There is not a day passes that I do not comment that your health is your wealth, and smoking can seriously damage your health. As was stated over the past number of weeks, over 5,200 people die in Ireland each year from tobacco-related disease. I did not realise that it was the third...

Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill will put in place the legislative basis for the merger of the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland and the Environmental Protection Agency and will incorporate the terms of the amendment to the convention on the physical protection of nuclear material into Irish law so that it may be ratified by Ireland. When does the...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When will the harbours (amendment) Bill, which will amend the Harbour Acts 1996-2009 to allow the transfer of control of certain port companies to local authorities and amend existing provisions regarding board membership and repeal the Harbours Act 1946 and provide for further related matters be published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am feeling my way with this, because I never drank or smoke so I do not know how alcohol or smoking tastes. However, I know how chocolate tastes and I am very fond of chocolate. If I do or taste something I do not like, I will not do it again. I am trying to understand how people feel when they take a few puffs of a cigarette. I am sure it cannot be nice on the first few occasions. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am a father of three children and I have a grandchild. I am sorry I missed the contributions earlier but I attended the last session. Everybody is saying the tobacco industry is targeting young people, and it has been argued that young people smoke because of reasons like fashion or style. A year ago another group was here telling us that young girls smoke to keep down weight because of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: It is important that we listen to the views expressed by the organisations that appear before this committee. A number of serious facts were presented this morning and I learned a lot. The Irish Cancer Society stated that 5,200 people die prematurely per year, that 25% of the Irish population smoke, that one in two long-term smokers will die from smoking-related diseases and that smoking is...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect publication of the consumer protection and competition Bill to amalgamate the National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority and to give effect to other changes to competition and consumer law including making provision for a statutory code of conduct for the grocery goods sector and giving effect to the recommendations of the advisory group on media mergers?

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: This year remains an extremely challenging one for the health services. The scale of savings to be achieved remains considerable. However, the health service has already risen to the challenge of delivering significant savings while maintaining and improving the health services. Since the onset of the recession, there has been a 20% reduction in the health budget, amounting to over...

Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The criminal justice (victims' rights) Bill is supposed to strengthen the rights of victims of crime and their families and to give effect to a proposed EU directive. When is that due?