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National Dementia Strategy Implementation: Statements (14 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am pleased that within months of just launching the national dementia strategy, we are here welcoming the actual implementation of this programme, as well as the real steps and actions it will include. Politicians have been promising this for decades. Today, we are really seeing progress. Sadly, we all know people who are living with dementia and Alzheimer’s. For many, their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I want to pick up on what Deputy Ciara Conway said about speech and language therapy. I have asked on a number of occasions over the years for the Minister for Health to look at this and deliver a service through our national primary school network. What is happening is that parents get appointments which they cancel or fail to turn up for and the child may not be seen again for six months....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank Mr. Quinn for his report. I want to ask Mr. Quinn a straight question: is a woman who goes into Portlaoise hospital tonight to have a baby safe and will her baby be safe? He stated that the "volume of critical care activity within the intensive care unit of the hospital" is low and that staff "who do not have the opportunity to treat sufficient numbers of patients or carry out a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: If a woman ends up in the intensive care unit of the hospital tonight, will she be looked after? Will she be treated in it or moved on within the recommended time limit? Sometimes this does not happen because a woman's blood pressure increases suddenly and the baby must be delivered immediately. How can HIQA guarantee-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Politicians have marched on the streets in an effort to keep open intensive care units, without professionalism or proper procedures being followed in these units. We must all listen to what HIQA is stating in that regard.

Independent Planning Regulator: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: This is the first Government to have taken any real steps towards reforming our planning system so that it is fair, fit for purpose and, most importantly, serves the common good of the people. Previous governments were happy to let their planning system be dominated by endless greed and, on occasion, the power of what lay within an alluring brown envelope. The Mahon tribunal lasted 15 years...

Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: We do not need a survey

Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: This is the Order of Business.

Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: What is Deputy Mathews' question?

Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: He wants fresh ideas.

Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: He is wasting time.

Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: When will the heads of the insurance Bill and the heads of the deposit guarantee scheme directive Bill be published? Will it happen before the end of this term?

Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Have they not?

Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Is that on both Bills?

Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: In the Roads Bill there is provision for the drug-testing of drivers. When does the Taoiseach expect that Bill to be enacted? When will the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill be enacted? The heads of the Bill were published on 27 November 2014 and the Bill is urgently needed as it criminalises the purchase of sex and online child exploitation.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Regulations (7 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority objected to the National University of Ireland Dublin providing additional parking spaces on campus, to meet the growing demand for parking spaces, which has consequently caused great issues along surrounding roads, particularly Woodbine Road; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (7 May 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken, in view of the serious lack of parking spaces, to incentivise students attending the National University of Ireland Dublin campus to use public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17966/15]

Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Apr 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Last night, the Minister of State, Deputy English, said that Irish businesses need to start to survive and scale up. The principal complaint I receive from self-employed traders and small business owners relates to access to credit. How can they start, never mind survive and scale up, without the finance to do so? Over 90% of small businesses are dependent on traditional methods of loans...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fuel Prices (22 Apr 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason petrol prices in recent months have not properly decreased, in line with the drop in the price of fuel oil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15880/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Apr 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 690. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of LUAS users at the Lehaunstown, County Dublin stop, on a daily and weekly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15406/15]