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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (21 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his approach to implementing the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51686/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (21 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the initiatives being put in place to tackle rural crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51427/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans that are in place to reduce the number of drugs offences; the number of gardaí in County Tipperary currently assigned to drugs duty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51426/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 227. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the roll out of Covid-19 booster vaccinations for residents of elderly care homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51444/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 228. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the roll out of Covid-19 booster vaccinations for frontline healthcare workers of elderly care homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 229. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the roll out of Covid-19 booster vaccinations for frontline healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51446/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the commission for its submission on this proposed legislation. The commission has made submissions on similar legislation in the past and there are some inconsistencies in what we heard today with what the commission said on previous occasions in regard to legislation. I will point to a couple of law points. One relates to competition law of the European Court of Justice, ECJ,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: First, it is the job of the competition authority to protect the consumer. Between 2005 and 2017, that was working perfectly well. When the interpretation of legislation was changed in 2017, the competition authority did not raise any issues. However, I think the witnesses have conceded that the VCI, which is the regulatory body, has no control over lay operators and that is a fundamental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: However, Mr. McHugh concedes the VCI cannot regulate lay operators.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for coming today to help us with pre-legislative scrutiny of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021, which I am sponsoring. The fact I brought forward this amendment came out of a couple of meetings of the joint committee in the last Dáil, when we had the Veterinary Council with us on more than one occasion. It was the unanimous view of the Oireachtas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: When I talk about regulation and human health, I am talking principally about the regulation of the supply and sale of drugs. It is clear to me lay owners are outside the VCI's remit and that it has no power to regulate them. I can give an instance where a lay operator owned a practice and the vet he had working there left and that practice continued to sell drugs even after that vet had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Then, as it stands, the VCI is not able to regulate the ownership of veterinary practices. I thank the Vice Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (19 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports Budget 2022 is providing for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50693/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (19 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 230. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the issuing of free access to the FreeStyle Libre device for all adult diabetics; his plans to remove the age limit for free access to this device; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50464/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school transport for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50669/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (19 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 725. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation on surrogate parenthood will be amended to give improved rights to parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50406/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (19 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 909. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of leg supports for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51286/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I am glad to say as a Fianna Fáil Deputy that it is not that our fingerprints are on this budget but that our hoofprints are all over this budget. A number of core policy issues for my party have been addressed well in this budget. The first matter that I want to focus on in the short time that I have available is the provision of SNAs. Some 1,000 extra SNAs are being provided in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the most recent Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, if the Secretary General of his Department followed through on their commitment to discuss the issue of the requirement for planning permission on dead and dying ash crops as outlined in circular 5/2021 with their counterpart in the Department of Housing, Local...