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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Whose job is that?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I raise with the Minister the commitment in the programme for Government to reduce outpatient waiting lists and waiting times, in particular waiting times for ear, nose and throat, ENT, services in the south east based in Waterford University Hospital. We have been told repeatedly by the manager of the hospital that the waiting time to be seen in the outpatients’ department of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: What will the Minister of State say to this child?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That must be funding led.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is not an answer.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: What do I say to this child?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister of State can comment on all the cases.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: After 39 years, the Taoiseach made the startling discovery yesterday that Christmas comes every December. There may indeed be scope to change rostering at Christmas time, but the Taoiseach should not blame hospital staff, as he did, whatever the Minister says. He mentioned staff taking their annual entitlement to leave. Rostering and ensuring the presence of sufficient staff, as the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister talks about throwing money at it. I am a former Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I am talking about value for money and much better health outcomes for people. Will the Minister not concede that it is ludicrous for somebody to be in an acute bed at enormous cost in an acute hospital when that person is willing, able and anxious to go home but community care cannot...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I am talking about home care.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is not enough. Why would the Government spend more on acute beds?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is not doing that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: He did not say that.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the new school premises for a school (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation was first granted patronage of this school in March 2013 and it has been located at a temporary premises since August 2016; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the lease on this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (7 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a claim for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) will be processed to completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46116/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [43433/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I ask the Taoiseach to give information to the House about the specific public service reform measures being led by the social policy and public service reform division. Are there discrete units of reform that the Taoiseach has prioritised and the division is on top of? In particular, has it oversight of the reforms of An Garda Síochána? Previously all the work suggested by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic division of his Department. [43432/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: One of the greatest risks facing us in terms of our revenue sources is, as the Taoiseach acknowledged, our overdependence on corporation tax from multinationals. A small number of companies are producing a very significant chunk of the corporation tax collected, which also represents an increasingly large chunk of the overall tax take. Has the economic division looked at this issue? Do we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That sounds like American football.