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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Byrne: 523. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will list, for each year from 2008 to 2013 or the most recent year for which information is available, funding provided by the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration for non-governmental, voluntary or community organisations; and the amount provided and their purpose, under the headings of sport, faith-based organisations and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Byrne: 524. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the voluntary and community organisations funded by his Department in 2013, or the most recent year for which information is available; and the amount provided in each case and the purpose for which it was provided. [2871/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Byrne: 658. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 548 of 10 December 2013, the voluntary and community organisations funded by his Department in 2013 or the latest year for which such information is available; the amount provided in each case and the purpose for which it was provided. [2862/14]

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

Catherine Byrne: I thank the delegations for their presentations. To whom or to what agency will the hospital groups be accountable when they are established? The Minister has stated he hopes planning permission for the national children’s hospital will have been secured by December 2014. How long will this delay the completion of the project? When will the GP-visit card for the under-fives card be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Jan 2014)

Catherine Byrne: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the proposed location for the new post-primary Gaelscoil for Dublin, in line with his Department's own assessment that the school should be centred in the Dundrum area. [1583/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (15 Jan 2014)

Catherine Byrne: 726. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of domestic adoptions and the number of inter-country adoptions which took place here in 2013; the number of social workers working in the area of adoption. [1288/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (15 Jan 2014)

Catherine Byrne: 853. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the impending closure of the mobile BreastCheck unit in Crumlin; his plans to replace this service for women in Crumlin, Kilmainham, the South Inner City and surrounding areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1289/14]

Third Report of the Constitutional Convention - Same-Sex Marriage: Statements (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I strongly recommend the report of the Constitutional Convention on the matter of same-sex marriage. In particular, I recommend the recommendation by a large majority, 79 to 19, that a referendum should be held to change the law to allow same-sex couples the right to a full marriage. Furthermore, I am pleased the Government has committed to holding the referendum during the first half of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: One is committing a crime.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: What is the figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: That is grand. I thank Dr. Holohan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: If there are any figures available I would be grateful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I thank Dr. Tony Holohan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I thank the Minister for his reply. While I cannot provide costings for measures, I am sure the Department could do so and I am certain the cost of providing nicotine replacement therapy to pregnant women who smoke would be far outweighed by the subsequent costs of providing medical treatment for babies and mothers. Are figures available for the number of people who avail of nicotine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I thank the Minister and the group who compiled this report, which covers many of the health issues around smoking. I wish to quote from the foreword of the report in which the Minister states, "No-one, whether smoker or non-smoker, wants their children to smoke." Tobacco is well known as a major contribution towards ill-health and premature mortality. What shocked me in the report was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV-AIDS Strategy: Discussion (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I thank all the speakers. It is a first for me to hear people with such great passion and expertise here. There was much information and many figures, and it takes a while for me to get them into my head. All the figures are disturbing. I still find it very difficult to hear that men and women, young and old, straight and gay, do not understand the huge health risk there is around their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (28 Nov 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I have several questions about health insurance claims not being processed properly. What is the average time it takes for a claim to be processed? Is the health insurance industry examining ways by which it can improve waiting times on processing people’s claims? People are finding it difficult to afford health insurance premia. Despite that, the VHI’s 2012 annual report...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (28 Nov 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I do not wish to single out any one organisation on this matter. Will the other insurance providers give a picture of their staffing and administration costs? That is very important for me to know as a public representative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (28 Nov 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I beg to differ.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (28 Nov 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I do not often disagree with the Chairman as I believe he is very capable.