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Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It is discrimination within the one county or constituency where one subvention is bigger than another when they should be all the same.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of persons in counties Carlow and Kilkenny that have not received 85% of their total 2016 payment under GLAS 1, GLAS 2 and AEOS; the reason for this delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12364/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Laboratory Facilities (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the future of the regional veterinary laboratory in County Kilkenny, which serves the entire region of the south east, can be guaranteed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of engagement that has taken place between his Department and the insurance industry to ensure that appropriate insurance is available to persons residing in an area in which flooding has never occurred but who are being excluded from cover, en masse, by insurance providers due to their Eircode; his views on such practices; the measures which have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 212. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary legislative amendments will be made in order to facilitate the implementation of the cannabis access programme; if he will expedite this process; if he will consider granting a licence to an Irish registered doctor to authorise access to medicinal cannabis for named patients with conditions such as Dravet syndrome, rare forms of epilepsy...

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I commend my party colleagues for bringing this motion before the House. It seeks a firm commitment from the Government that no child with special educational needs will lose resource teaching hours as a result of changes to the allocation model. As my party's spokesperson on farming and skills, I am often contacted by parents of children with learning difficulties who are struggling to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (8 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 71. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the HSE expedites the allocation of funding to a service (details supplied) which is the only residential detoxification and treatment service for adolescents in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12065/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (8 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 96. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be allocated to the existing cardiac catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford in order to increase the laboratory's current capacity to accommodate the estimated 450 additional procedures that will be referred there through additional diagnostic angiograms set to be provided by the mobile catheterisation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 604. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the provision of a nursing pin for a person (details supplied) from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11861/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 605. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for the provision of nursing pins to new nurses from the Nursing and Midwifery Board; his views on whether the current waiting times for the provision of nursing pins are an issue for young nurses taking up employment here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11862/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 656. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the commitments he made in respect of reducing surgery waiting times for children suffering from scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12066/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 657. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received an action plan on scoliosis from the HSE. [12106/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received an action plan on scoliosis from the HSE. [12107/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will start with a matter to which nearly every speaker has referred, namely, Expressway services. Being a rural Deputy, I am aware of the importance of such services. I come from Kilkenny. Expressway services are important for connectivity in rural Ireland. We have PSO lines, many of which go to Dublin. The format for Expressway should be changed. I am speaking about the south east....

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: All those services were in place when the old road structure was there. They were the national primary routes. When the motorway was built, they were not changed. We opened the services to private contractors but they are taking the cream. They are not under obligation to go to the small villages and towns off the motorway that are in need of services. We need to change the criteria fast...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It has been done in some areas already.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: My understanding is that is not working. Old people are being put in minibuses, etc. I am talking about existing services, with buses of 45 or 50 seats, that go to Dublin. The luxury buses are being taken away and a substandard services would be substituted. That will not work. Rural Ireland deserves its whack too from the PSO. Much of it goes to Dublin, although I know there are 1.2...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will move on to regional airports, which have been touched on. I am being very parochial in mentioning Waterford regional airport again. There are four regional airports getting subsistence of €12 million. Is that correct? There are probably eight or nine regional airports in total in Ireland. What criteria was used to give subsistence to four regional airports and why was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Where are they?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: What was that for?