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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (11 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on increasing funding for co-operatives and development companies from the current budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43073/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (11 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the sum of money retained from farmers in the beef data genomics scheme in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43081/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (11 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the allocation of the 2017 sports capital programme grants will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43083/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I support the financial resolution. I would go further and argue that a 50 cent increase in the price of a packet of cigarettes is not enough and the increase should have been at least €1 per packet. This should be a public health rather than a revenue raising issue. Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy took a strong position on the issue of reducing risk taking activity when she was a...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: The budget is an extensive document and it is difficult to deal with each issue comprehensively, so I will only address a number of them. One topic three quarters of the way through the Budget Statement related to a VAT compensation scheme for charities. I am delighted that this has finally been introduced. Last year, the then Minister for Finance undertook to review this matter. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42840/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank members for their patience. The purpose of this morning's meeting is to engage with representatives of the Health Service Executive, HSE, the national safeguarding committee and Sage on the subject of adult safeguarding and the matters that might be considered in the context of drafting legislation in this area. On behalf of the committee I welcome from the HSE Mr. Pat Healy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Ms Rickard-Clarke for her presentation and call on Mr. Mervyn Taylor, Sage, to make an opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Taylor. We will take members' questions in groups of three, beginning with Deputies O'Reilly, Durkan and Murphy O'Mahony.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I call Deputy Murphy O'Mahony.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I will ask Mr. Healy to lead off on some of those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I will bring in some other members and I ask the witnesses to bank their answers until they have had a chance to contribute. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentations and observations. Regarding some of the surveys, the Red C polls, the statistics that are coming out and the HIQA 2016 submission to the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare, the Abuse and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Mr. Healy wanted to come in before we took that last group of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Which Department should be responsible for this complex legislation? It is a multidisciplinary and goes across a wide range of departmental and agency services. It would seem to involve the Departments of Health, Justice and Equality, Employment and Social Protection. What would the proposed national safeguarding authority look like? What would its composition be? What would it cost the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: On behalf of the committee, I thank Mr. Mervyn Taylor and Ms Eileen O'Callaghan from Sage, Mr. Pat Healy, Mr. Michael Fitzgerald and Mr. Tim Hanly from the HSE, and Ms Rickard-Clarke and Ms Sarah Lennon from Inclusion Ireland and the National Safeguarding Committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Thank you, Deputy. At our next meeting we will meet representatives of the Institute of Public Administration, the Law Reform Commission and the Secretary General of the Department of Health on this issue. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (3 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 362. To ask the Minister for Health when the FreeStyle Libre system will be made available under the long-term illness, LTI, scheme for persons with diabetes; if availability will not be restricted only to persons with type one diabetes but will be made available to every person on multi daily insulin injections based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41463/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 439. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a knee operation in Limerick following numerous cancellations of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41883/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (3 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether a year of tragedy on farms means the message of farm safety is not getting through; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41466/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (3 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 491. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether legislation is sufficiently robust to enable local authorities to combat illegal dumping such as at the site recently discovered at the scenic area of Bellharbour, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41465/17]