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Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1417. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years or over that experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours during Q1 2024; the total number to date in 2024; and the hospitals where the wait occurred. [14482/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in Q1 2024; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40 minutes for same; the number that waited longer than 60 minutes for same; the number...

Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Maternity Protection Act 1994 and to provide for postponement of maternity leave where a mother has been diagnosed with cancer or other serious illness during pregnancy, and to provide for related matters. The purpose of this Bill is to amend the maternity protection Acts so that a mother who has...

Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for appearing today. We are doing pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill and I do not think there is any dispute as to the motivation or intention behind it. However, as legislators we need to check it out and see what the Department says in respect of it. The Bill is obviously based on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018, which amended the NTMA Act 2014 by putting in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The purpose of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act was to introduce statutory prohibitions and restrictions with respect to investment by ISIF in fossil fuel undertakings. Is it the Department's view that it is a good or bad idea to start identifying investments, which are regarded as politically or morally unacceptable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I think Deputy Pringle's Bill was introduced in November 2016. Once the Department and the Government got their hands on it there were obviously significant alterations made, which have lessened the impact it would have had, if it had just been introduced as originally drafted by Deputy Pringle. Do I take it, if the Bill we are looking at today is to be processed by Government, that similar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Department's concern is that we would be outsourcing an executive decision to the United Nations for the purpose of designating companies, which were covered by Irish statute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Why? Is that because the Department's legal advice is that is not permissible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I turn to a potential solution. In most pieces of legislation introduced, which are based on an executive decision being implemented by a statutory enactment, there is a procedure within the legislation to allow the Minister to make regulations. Would the Department's concerns be met if the Bill provided that it was a matter for the Minister for Finance to designate a database of companies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I suppose a Minister could reach a determination on these issues independently, based on advice that he gets from within the Department. Would that be something that is outside the parameter of the expertise in the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Where is that right of appeal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: If there was a statutory scheme in place, Mr. Gilvarry is saying there would have to be a right of appeal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Going back to a broader point, I would have thought the issue Mr. Gilvarry raised about the database could be resolved through a different type of drafting. Would he agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Mr. Gilvarry stated that we would be an international outlier. Is that because we would be relying on the UN database or is it the case that similar legislation which seeks to disadvantage companies that are investing in illegal Israeli settlements exists elsewhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does Mr. Ashmore know if we have detail-----