Results 401-420 of 5,550 for speaker:Martin Ferris

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: Fianna Fáil supports the Government.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: Quite right.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: How would the Taoiseach know?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: 351. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an operation in Tallaght Hospital. [6662/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: 413. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [6909/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (7 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: 599. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being put in place to ensure that unlawful discrimination is not being undertaken or facilitated in preclearance areas at Irish airports through the application of President Trump's policies. [5658/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (7 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: 600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to ensure that international refugee law is not subverted through the application of President Trump's policies in preclearance areas at Irish airports. [5659/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (7 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: 601. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the mechanisms currently in place to ensure Ireland's obligations, under the TFEU and the ECHR and other applicable international laws, are fully complied with in preclearance areas in Irish airports. [5660/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services (2 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: In the past two weeks I have been contacted by several elderly parents about the lack of respite care services in north Kerry. The best way I can articulate this matter is by reading a letter I received last weekend from one mother. She says:I am writing this letter as a very upset and concerned parent of a daughter who is attending the Kerry Parents and Friends Association in Listowel. We...

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services (2 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: I thank the Minister of State for his response and welcome his comment that he intends to do something about the matter in the weeks ahead. Can he tell me how many beds were closed by HIQA? If the four bedrooms were available, would they meet the shortfall? Will the savings made by HIQA in reducing bed numbers be used to provide a respite care service in the house purchased by the HSE?...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (2 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: 241. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the current lack of respite beds for adults in north Kerry in view of the fact all places are being used for residential care; when the four-bed property purchased in Listowel, County Kerry by the HSE for adult respite will be operational; and if the beds will be used for respite care only. [4979/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (1 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: 66. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms in place to ensure that consultants will not be funded by the national treatment purchase fund to privately treat patients that are on their public lists except in exceptional circumstances in which no alternative exists; the body which will carry out this policing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4564/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (1 Feb 2017)

Martin Ferris: 70. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that have been closed due to staff shortages in each of the past five years; the number of beds closed currently due to staff shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4563/17]

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Martin Ferris: Is the Taoiseach going to give them the vote?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard Issues (24 Jan 2017)

Martin Ferris: 584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will enact statutory instrument legislation in order that the Irish Coast Guard can become a stand-alone primary response agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2720/17]

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Martin Ferris: It was a disgraceful comment.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Martin Ferris: I welcome the farmers who are here as part of their campaign for justice, which is what it is about. I was disgusted by the commentary by a Deputy who is no longer in the House. He tried to compare cash for ash, which was a questionable scheme introduced by the DUP, with an aid package for genuine farmers.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Martin Ferris: That was a disgraceful comment to make and I hope that when the Minister gets to his feet, he will distance himself from it. I know the farming community because I come from it. I know the tillage farming community because I was brought up in it. Its members would not be present today if they had anywhere else to go. They have come here to beg for justice so that they can survive and...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Martin Ferris: The Taoiseach has sat on his hands.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (18 Jan 2017)

Martin Ferris: 214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS payment. [2028/17]