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Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The national paediatric hospital development board (amendment) Bill is to provide for an amendment to the functions and membership of the national paediatric hospital development board. When can we expect its publication?

Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I thank the Taoiseach for his commitment to the Narrow Water bridge. At all times, the Taoiseach kept his promises.

Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect publication of the human tissue Bill? This will meet the key recommendations of the Madden report that no hospital post mortems may be carried out and that no tissue may be retained after post mortems without consent. It will also address other matters relating to human tissue, including consent arrangements for transplantations and research purposes.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Inspections (19 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 615. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the filling of the vacant preschool inspector's post in County Louth. [49109/13]

Access to Credit: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The negative consequences of the recession have hit our city centres and rural towns hardest. Towns play a vital role the social, cultural and economic life of communities throughout Ireland. Many shops and businesses, new enterprises and even some that have been in operation for decades or generations, have been unable to survive the downturn in economic activity, resulting in an...

Order of Business (13 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When will we see publication of the monuments Bill, which is to consolidate, update and improve the legislative code governing the protection and regulation of the national architectural heritage?

Order of Business (12 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect the publication of the regulation of vehicle immobilisation Bill, to regulate vehicle clamping and tow away?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I agree with Dr. O'Reilly and Ms Ling that the focus should be on living. They spoke about supporting families but I ask them to outline the type of support provided to families in terms of making decisions. It is horrible for any family to find out that a child is terminally ill. In the context of the multitude of illnesses involved, what level of expertise is available to families? What...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Government decided to bring budget day forward from the first week in December to on or before 15 October. The Bill includes the measures announced on budget day and also contains details of a number of other changes, including many of a technical or administrative nature. The Bill provides for changes to the research and development tax credit regime announced by the Minister on...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect the adoption (tracing and information) Bill to provide for an information and tracing service for applicants seeking information on adoptions on a statutory basis to be published?

Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect publication of the civil registration (amendment) Bill, the purpose of which is to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 following a review of its operations? The Bill will make provision for the compulsory registration of fathers' names on birth certificates, validation of embassy marriages and civil partnerships, the prevention of marriages of convenience and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I would like to ask Ms Tan-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Chair did not let me in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When a public health nurse visits a patient and recommends that he or she needs one hour of care a day seven days a week and that patient receives just half an hour of care five days a week, how far can the public health nurse go in trying to look after that patient? I agree with Mr. Martin that early intervention is important. In recent years I have been reading in the newspapers about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Ms Burke's comments have confused me a little. Did Ms Burke say that a person who needs a nurse to look after him or her at night, and do everything else, is not covered under the fair deal scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Is Ms Burke saying that the nursing home looks after the patient out of its own pocket?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: If a resident's condition gets extremely bad, will a GP transfer him or her to hospital?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I wish to put on the record what a wonderful job palliative care teams do as I experienced with my late father and my mother at present. I also want to put on record what a wonderful job the hospices do. Ms Foley stated €73 million is spent on specialist palliative care but it is unplanned and uncoordinated. Will she elaborate on this? It is a service that is doing a fantastic job...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Bill dissolves 80 town councils which together account for 744 councillors and provides for the establishment by ministerial order of municipal districts to cover the entire territory of the State bar Dublin. This has the effect of reducing the overall number of councillors in the State from 1,627 to 949 while increasing the number of county councillors from 883 to 949. Section 15 sets...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: When can we expect the criminal justice (corruption) Bill to be published? It is to consolidate and reform all the relevant legislation - the Prevention of Corruption Acts 1889 to 2010 - in one statute.