Results 3,141-3,160 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (7 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the current daily running costs of the catheterisation laboratory at Waterford University Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5358/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (7 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 445. To ask the Minister for Health the State services currently available to those persons suffering from eating disorders and related illness in counties Carlow and Kilkenny who do not have private health insurance; if any provisions have been made within his Department for additional services to be introduced to communities in theses counties; his plans to enable children, adolescents and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme (2 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Further to Deputy Cahill's question, could this scheme cover the purchase of stock? Many farmers have asked if it could be used for the purchase of cows or even cattle for fattening. Could the scheme be open for that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: What about the institutes of technology?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Are we allowed to investigate local council matters?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (2 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of delayed GLAS payments for 2016 to farmers in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and the reason for same. [4850/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 269. To ask the Minister for Health if the mobile catheterisation laboratory announced for Waterford University Hospital is currently under ownership of the Health Service Executive or if it is yet to be procured; the country of origin; the price paid by the Health Service Executive and the daily cost of operating the unit; if additional specialised consultants, theatre nurses and support...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 57. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instigate an independent clinical review of children's scoliosis surgery services in order to develop current services to an adequate level to reduce surgery waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4256/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 89. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to enable children and young persons in counties Carlow and Kilkenny to access an out-of-hours child and adolescent mental health service team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4688/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (1 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will commence negotiations on a successor to the Lansdowne Road agreement; if representatives of retired public servants will be included in such negotiations, having been excluded as part of the Haddington Road process; if he envisages any reduction or reversal to the current de facto pension cut of 5.5% for public sector...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Any Deputy will tell one that any changes to the scheduling of buses or the routes they travel, however slight they may be, can send the constituency office into overdrive. The Bus Éireann Expressway network reaches into almost every town and village in rural Ireland. For many rural dwellers, the service represents the only avenue of transport. It is a crucial service and its...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Electoral Commission Administration (31 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 18 October 2016, when the boundary review commission established to examine the boundary between counties Kilkenny and Waterford is expected to publish its concluding report in view of the fact that it is now ten months past the initial deadline for publication of 31...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (31 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 516. To ask the Minister for Health if the cost of the drug MacuShield was previously covered by the medical card scheme; if there has been any recent change to the status of MacuShield in respect of the medical card scheme; if so, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3962/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive Capital Plan for 2017 will provide funding for completion of phase two of the current developments at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, including the Susie Long Hospice which is an integral part of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4241/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (31 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the targets in place for the staff levels in child and adolescent mental health service teams in CHO 5 in 2017 to bring them closer to the target set in A Vision for Change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4689/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (31 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 715. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allocate funding to Kilkenny County Council under the specific improvement grant scheme or the non-national strategic improvement grant scheme for the R704 Listerlin road widening scheme (details supplied); his views on the fact that the project cannot be funded via the low cost safety improvement grant scheme due to the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I have to comment on the Government jet because everyone seems to be fixated on it today. It is poor value for money to think that we only realised €471,000, particularly in view of the fact that it originally cost €48 million. It is poor management to say that it was sold to the one buyer left. It was stripped down in Savannah and the only option was to sell it to one...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It makes commercial sense though.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: There is a person or company who bought that jet. They did not invest to lose money but, rather, to make it. If we had at least got it flying, it could have been sold off with a few more bidders interested. Instead, our hands were tied. The aircraft was stripped down in Savannah, with one bidder coming in for spare parts. We realised €471,000 but could we have made €4...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: If we had done that, how much would it have realised on the open market?