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Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The criminal law (sexual offences) Bill will implement recommendations in the joint Oireachtas committee second interim report on the constitutional amendment on children and will further protect vulnerable persons against sexual exploitation and abuse. When can we expect its publication?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (23 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome Mr. Derek Byrne, assistant Garda commissioner, Mr. Gerard Moran, assistant secretary in the Office of the Revenue Commission, Mr. Gavin Maguire, assistant national director of the National Tobacco Control Office and their staff. Most of the questions I intended to ask have already been asked but I would ask the following ones. Does increasing the price of tobacco products increase...

ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The ESB has identified an opportunity to use its electricity distribution network to provide fibre telecommunications services in the Irish market. It will be able to do this either alone or in partnership with another company. It is envisaged this, in turn, could facilitate retail telecommunications operators in Ireland to deliver fibre broadband services. The purpose of the Bill is to...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The health (transport support) Bill will provides a scheme for making individual payments towards transport costs for people with severe disabilities who cannot access public transport. The medical practitioner (amendment) (medical indemnity insurance) Bill will make it mandatory for registration purposes for all medical practitioners to have adequate medical indemnity insurance. When can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The aim is to have universal health insurance available to the entire population by early 2016. What is the plan to progress this in the next few years to ensure this does happen? As for the primary care services, I believe 34 primary care centres are progressing at present, while a further 12 have been approved. How does the Minister find the task of getting qualified personnel to work in...

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The objective of the housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill is to expand and strengthen the regulatory framework for social housing, including the 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. When can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and his staff, and the director general of the HSE, Mr. Tony O'Brien, and his staff. With an 8% increase in the population it is very important we maintain our front-line services and that the patients get the quality services they deserve. I welcome the news that 420,000 children will benefit from the new GP card for the under-5s. The Minister has...

Water Services (No.2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The efficient, clean and cost effective delivery of water services is a very important policy area. As water services authorities, 34 city and county councils are currently responsible for the delivery and operation of water and wastewater infrastructure. In Ireland in 2010, water services cost over €1.2 billion to run, with a resulting funding gap of around €1 billion after...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The sports Ireland Bill intends to provide for the establishment of sports Ireland as a new organisation to replace the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority. When is publication expected?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is the famous saying that your health is your wealth. The Minister said the Department would be publishing the Health in Ireland: Key Trends report next week, which will provide an overview of health status and health services over the past ten years. He said it showed a real improvement in mortality and increased life expectancy. Better health care has increased life expectancy by...

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Bethany Home was established prior to the foundation of the State as a private organisation with a Protestant ethos to provide charitable assistance to women of all denominations on the margins of society. It closed in 1972. While it continued to provide a range of assistance, it evolved primarily into a mother and baby home. Women would usually go there a few months before the baby was...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Mental capacity refers to a person's ability to make decisions about their life in areas such as finance or health care as well as common day-to-day decisions. A person may lose mental capacity due to an injury or an illness and this may be a temporary or permanent loss. Legal capacity refers to a person's ability to act within the legal system. Unlike mental capacity, it is a legal...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect publication of the regulation and valuation of land Bill which will merge the Property Registration Authority, the Valuation Office and Ordnance Survey Ireland?

Order of Business (10 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When does the Taoiseach expect the publication of the trusts Bill, which is to reform and consolidate the general law relating to trustees so as to better deal with and protect trust assets?

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Bill amends the Pensions Act 1990 to change the manner in which the resources of a defined benefit pension scheme are distributed on its wind-up. It also broadens the categories of benefits that can be reduced where a defined benefit scheme is being restructured because it does not meet the statutory minimum funding standard. It amends the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to...

Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When does the Tánaiste expect the publication of the road traffic (No. 3) Bill, which is to provide for the North-South mutual recognition of penalty points, and other amendments to road traffic legislation?

Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013 aims to improve road safety. It allows for blood to be taken from an incapacitated driver following a collision. It introduces preliminary impairment testing to better identify and stop drug-taking drivers. The Bill introduces a low disqualification limit for learners and novice drivers and makes other changes to the current road traffic laws. There has...

Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: This Bill updates existing forestry law in several ways. It gives the Minister the power to make regulations for the effective management of the forestry sector and the protection of trees. It introduces a revised felling licence system and assigns powers to authorised officers to enforce the Forestry Acts. The introduction of the legislation follows consultation and reviews of the...

Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When will the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Bill to underpin Government policy on climate change mitigation and adaptation be published?

Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When may we expect publication of the customs Bill to modernise legislation relating to customs and consolidate it into a single Act?