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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: Thank you, Mr. Herrick. Does Dr. O'Rourke want to comment at this stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: What was the timeline of that case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: Thank you for your opening presentations. The witnesses have certainly brought a degree of clarity that there is no underpinning legislation which is consolidated in social welfare legislation and they have highlighted a number of very significant issues. I will take questions from the members. I call Deputy Joe Carey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: It was social welfare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: I am not sure that our witnesses today can answer that question. That information may have to come from the Department. I do not want to reiterate the points made. Mr. Herrick outlined the issue in terms of the legislation. We have legislated in the sense that different pieces of legislation have added new areas where the card can be used. There is no stand-alone instrument, as has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: As amended.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: Mr. McGarr, before we conclude I wish to return to a minor point you made which you might explain in a little more detail. You referred to the structure and architecture around SAFE 1 and SAFE 2 and indicated that there was an unused layer there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: Will Mr. McGarr explain that a little further?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: At a particular level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: I thank Mr. McGarr. Unless any of the witnesses wishes to make concluding remarks, I thank them for their presentations, which were informative, and their responses to members' queries. If there is no further business, we shall adjourn.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: 39. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to promote increased uptake of the flu vaccine across all categories of persons and not only those deemed at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6294/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Feb 2018)
John Curran: 46. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the provision of the seasonal flu vaccine across all categories of persons to lower the risk of flu outbreak in communities; if his department has carried out a cost benefit analysis of providing the vaccine to all groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6293/18]
- Other Questions: Waste Disposal (7 Feb 2018)
John Curran: 40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has reported on the operation of the household waste collection market; her plans to publish this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5845/18]
- Other Questions: Waste Disposal (7 Feb 2018)
John Curran: The Minister is aware that last year the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, introduced a new pricing and charging regime for waste collection. Effectively, it was to phase out flat-rate charges and encourage greater recycling. I understand that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has since conducted a study on the waste...
- Other Questions: Waste Disposal (7 Feb 2018)
John Curran: I do not mean to be disrespectful to the Minister by saying she did not tell me anything I really did not know. It is like a history lesson. I am well aware that the request came in September. In a previous reply from the Minister, Deputy Naughten, he indicated that the report from the commission would be available in early 2018. This does very little to alleviate concerns that people...
- Other Questions: Waste Disposal (7 Feb 2018)
John Curran: I would appreciate it if the Minister could relay to the commission our concerns that this should be done in a timely manner. There is no obvious competition in the market and prices are not transparent. I live in a Dublin suburb and I can see competition in providing broadband, estate agent services and energy suppliers. Nobody is knocking on my door asking me if I want to change my waste...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Staff (7 Feb 2018)
John Curran: 64. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 12 October 2017, the progress which has been made to fill these vacancies in view of the threat of Brexit for business here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5844/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (7 Feb 2018)
John Curran: 233. To ask the Minister for Health the level of current and capital funding that would be required to implement Sláintecare proposals in view of the recent hospital bed capacity review which found that if the proposals in the Sláintecare report are implemented an additional 2,500 hospital beds would be required; the annual timeframe for the full delivery of these 2,500 additional...
- Other Questions: Garda Deployment (6 Feb 2018)
John Curran: I thank the Minister for his response, but it has not allayed my fears and concerns. I acknowledge there was a significant improvement in road safety last year, but one life lost on the roads is one too many. We all have a role to play in this regard. It is interesting to note that the Road Safety Authority, when it looked at road fatalities for the period 2008 to 2012, found that speeding...
- Other Questions: Garda Deployment (6 Feb 2018)
John Curran: In addition to road safety, the traffic corps has a significant role to play in crime prevention. We are all well aware of rural crime and so forth. The Minister said, quite specifically, that he does not allocate members of the Garda. However, I would like him to reflect on a comment he made in a written reply to me only in November, namely, "The Commissioner has committed in the Policing...