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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I call Deputy Fitzpatrick.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendments Nos. 7 and 8 are related and may be discussed together. They have been discussed by both of the Deputies by whom they have been moved. Do they wish to make any further comment, or does the Minister of State wish to reply?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendments Nos. 9 and 10 are related and may be discussed together. Amendment No. 10 is a logical alternative to No. 9.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before I invite the Minister of State to speak, does Deputy Sherlock want to speak at this point?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would Deputy Ó Laoghaire like to respond to Deputy Sherlock's question?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is a combination of elements to this grouping of amendments.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Deputy Chambers. The Minister of State has a compendium of positions to address.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will come back to that in a moment. The Minister of State will reply to each of these questions then. I call Deputy Connolly.

Special Educational Needs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate the opportunity to speak on this motion. I commend the Fianna Fáil Party on its introduction. Nelson Mandela once said that "education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world". According to the Constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann, "The State shall, however, as guardian of the common good, require in view of actual conditions that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (9 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 498. To ask the Minister for Health if the Dental Council refers complaints of illegal practice involving a risk to public safety to An Garda Síochána for investigation and prosecution; if this is the normal practice in all such situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29868/19]

Report on the Wards of Court: Motion (4 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome that. I am making the point that I believe it could be revisited and re-evaluated. It is about having the political will to make it happen because it is something that has been identified not just by the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality but, as other colleagues have indicated, going back over at least a couple of decades. We need to have certainty on the issue, and if it...

Report on the Wards of Court: Motion (4 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister and colleagues who have participated in this important debate. I would like to reflect on a number of points. I welcome the initiation of Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017 last October, providing for periodic payments, which I believe is an important development that could constructively help to avoid some of the more serious situations that...

Report on the Wards of Court: Motion (4 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move:That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality entitled ‘Report on the Wards of Court’, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 22nd February, 2018. I would like at the outset to thank the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, and other colleagues who have made the effort to attend...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Data (4 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 185. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a staff recruitment embargo in place in counties Cavan and Monaghan; if so, when the embargo was introduced; when the embargo is scheduled to end; the number of posts vacant across the HSE in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the vacant posts, in tabular form; and when a physiotherapist will be recruited to address the needs of MS patients in County...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Acting Chairman proposing one minute?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is miserable.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The issue at the heart of this dispute is one of rights, primarily the right of workers to join and be represented by the trade union of their choice. We have had six days of protest action, including one of 24 hours duration, by the more than 500 ambulance staff who are members of the National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, branch of the PNA. We are now to face...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: First and foremost, the Minister, Deputy Harris, should be here to answer this issue. He continuously absents himself on health matters. This is as grievous an issue as any other that will present itself. The Minister of State said that the HSE and the National Ambulance Service have no obligation to recognise NASRA, or the PNA to represent ambulance personnel. I contend that they have a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same issue-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----Mr. Paul Reid, the newly appointed director general of the HSE, has just received a series of briefings from senior HSE managers, including the warning that there will be a deficit in relation to fair deal funding over the course of this year of up to €30 million. This will contribute to an ever-increasing backlog of elderly patients in hospital wards moving into long-term...