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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 69. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she accepts that the Workplace Relations Commission is significantly under-resourced and that this impacts its ability to carry out its statutory functions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22823/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 323. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the crisis in the emergency department at Limerick University Hospital, particularly in respect of the number of persons on trolleys; and his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23124/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the expected opening date of the new emergency department at Limerick University Hospital; his plans to incorporate the existing accident and emergency staff into the new environment; if he has spoken to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the Irish Medical Organisation and other relevant unions and representative associations on the matter; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the new skills that will be required in terms of staffing for the new emergency department at University Hospital Limerick; the progress of the emergency department recruitment drive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23126/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 326. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to invest in modern diagnostic services such as X-Ray scans, ultrasounds, and so on to allow for faster turnaround in the new Emergency Department at Limerick University hospital; the way he intends to deal with the fact that there are not sufficient skilled staff available to operate existing equipment with the result that the service is running...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will be seeking a derogation from the European Commission to borrow €1 billion outside the fiscal rules for the purpose of social housing as recently requested by IBEC in their 2017 budget proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22657/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria and availability of a derogation from the European Commission to borrow outside the fiscal rules for the purpose of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22658/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent joint statement on Brexit, where President Hollande, Chancellor Merkel and Premier Renzi noted that Europe must strengthen areas where both economic and social priorities overlap (details supplied); if he will seek derogation from the European Commission to borrow €1 billion outside of the fiscal rules for the purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 909. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she will initiate a debate on the agreed text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; if Dáil Éireann will be given the opportunity to vote on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22908/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 910. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to regulate the au pair and domestic workers sector to protect vulnerable women from exploitation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22909/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Expenditure (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 911. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 787 to 790, inclusive, of 12 July 2016, the exact amount of pay received by individual members of the Low Pay Commission for 2015 from a total of €155,500, and the same for the first six months of this year, for the €244,000 allocated to the commission for pay in 2016 in tabular...

Au Pair Placement Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Sinn Féin welcomes the opportunity to discuss the regularisation of the position of au pairs and domestic workers in Ireland. Ireland may be unique in Europe in its absolute failure to provide any semblance of a national child care policy or services. The situation continues to persist in spite of the fact that since the early 1990s, we have seen increased participation by women in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (12 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 70. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 714 of 31 May 2016, how the co-investment programme of €27.5 million for the national dementia strategy has been spent; the funding available from this; the cost to date of providing intensive home care packages since January 2015 to the 133 persons nationally; the cost of rolling-out dementia specialist intensive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (12 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the number of suitably qualified staff that have been part of the initiative undertaken by the HSE to train and upskill to become orthodontic therapists; the details of the pilot scheme and the number of patients who are under treatment; the progress being made to expand this initiative to other regional orthodontic departments; and if he will make a...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Even in boom times, successive Governments have not had enough resources to ensure we can tackle the blight that is drug abuse. My home town of Limerick city, for instance, has no local drugs task force. We have no detoxification centre, yet we clearly have a worsening drugs problem. Limerick, like the rest of the country, needs detox spaces, properly resourced drug treatment services and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foireann Roinne (7 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 44. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí na sonraí maidir leis an laghdú atá tagtha ar líon na foirne i Roinn na Gaeltachta le deich mbliana anuas. [19876/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments (6 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, and wish her well in her role as Minister of State with responsibility for drugs issues. It is an issue on which I have campaigned for a number of years so I hope we can work together on it. This issue is addressed to the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris, and I refer to the crisis in University Hospital Limerick, as over the past...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments (6 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is difficult to respond as the Minister is not here, but I hope the Minister of State will relay my comments to him. I am especially pleased the Minister of State indicated the unit is not fit for purpose as that is what the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, stated two years ago and the crisis is ongoing. The amalgamation caused the crisis and the Minister of State...

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: As the Sinn Féin spokesperson on jobs I can say that our party policy is very clear when it comes to economic recovery. Increased employment must mean increased prosperity for all workers. As it stands, we are coming from a low base considering that we have the second highest number of low paid workers in the OECD. It is not acceptable that almost 400,000 workers, or 30% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Signage (5 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 635. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to explain the absence of a signpost for Castleconnell at junction 27 of the M7 motorway, which is the last junction before motorists from Dublin would bypass the tourist village; and the steps he will take without delay to correct this anomaly. [19180/16]