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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bord na Móna (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money spent on the investigations into the dumping at the Bord Na Móna bog at Ballydesmond in County Cork; the next steps in relation to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41428/15]

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: They are crying their eyes out in Sinn Féin already.

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Labour Party is at 7%.

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Labour will not even be in the Dáil, let alone in government.

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Seven percent.

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste sat over there for 14 years.

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Members opposite will be going in with them.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (19 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Fianna Fáil will be supporting the Bill. We have always been very supportive of the concept of lifetime community rating, solidarity and intergenerational support. This is a key aspect of our philosophy in the context of how we develop society and support the various cohorts and age groups in society, but also in the context of private health insurance. Lifetime community rating and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Authority of Ireland (18 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 130. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will appoint adoptees and natural parents to the board of the Adoption Authority; if so, when; if not, the reason why; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40811/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of early intervention teams for children, by local health area, in tabular form; the number of persons on each team; the number of children in each area waiting for a first appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40718/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Sexual Abuse and Violence (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I raise the issue of the necessity to commission another report of sexual abuse and violence in Ireland, SAVI. The original report was published in 2002 and it was the foundation on which the Ferns, Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne reports were delivered. I note the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and others are keen to have a second SAVI research report conducted. Interestingly, the Oireachtas Joint...

Topical Issue Debate: Sexual Abuse and Violence (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: As Benjamin Franklin once said, if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. The difficulty, of course, is that in developing a plan or policy in such a key area of society, one needs to have research. One needs to know what is happening in society, the change in trends, the attitudes of people and the confidence of people in the institutions to which they would present if they were...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It has to come from the Government and Deputy Shatter is a backbencher.

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: That is not a point of order.

Finance Bill 2015: Allocation of Time: Motion (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Government should have allocated the time.

Finance Bill 2015: Allocation of Time: Motion (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I will make one brief point. Motions providing for guillotines on Committee Stage are often used and I presume that is the purpose of this motion. The House has had little time to discuss the budget or Finance Bill. It is a tradition to apply guillotines on Committee Stage of the Finance Bill. However, the guillotine was used on the Second Stage debate of the Finance Bill and the debate...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister, Deputy Kelly, has belatedly made some broad announcements in recent times about how he proposes to deal with the issues facing people who are homeless and people in private rented accommodation whose rents are escalating. He has said that people should approach the Private Residential Tenancies Board in cases of disputes or disagreements between landlords and tenants, but I...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister and the Tánaiste are keeping an eye on each other.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: -----and, in every budget it supported in this Parliament for the past five years, it brought forward a tax on the most vulnerable in this society. The idea that the Tánaiste can stand here and say-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: -----we were running away from health is simply a farce.