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- Other Questions: Potato Sector (22 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: 8. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an environmental restriction on the use of copper sulphate for the treatment of potato blight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21921/17]
- Other Questions: Potato Sector (22 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I offer my congratulations to the Minister of State on the retention of his position. It is well merited. I wish to talk to him today about potato blight. Agricultural crops, including potatoes, provide a very strong livelihood for so many in south Kildare, and there are many potato farmers in addition to the thousands of home producers. The margins can be very tight, as we have witnessed...
- Other Questions: Potato Sector (22 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: At a recent public meeting on agriculture that I hosted in Kildare with my good friend and colleague, Deputy McConalogue, the issue of EU over-regulation was raised. Farmers in Kildare, and I have no doubt throughout the country, want assurance that our Government is fighting for them and not being bound by regulations that may suit other countries that have different climates to the one...
- Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill and outline some of my reservations about it. I hope they will be taken up on Committee Stage by way of amendment. My essential reservation about the Bill is that it makes more than minor technical amendments to the relevant Act, particularly in its protection of the title of "physical therapist". I have discussed this issue with...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: The Programme for a Partnership Government stresses the need to intervene early and set a path for vulnerable children, including foster children. This is certainly not working at this point in time. I will give one example. A foster mother in my constituency that I have been dealing with in the last few months took into her care a nine-year old boy whose parents are drug addicts and whose...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: She has been fighting for counselling and supports for this child for months. The school has been excellent as well. Yesterday, she heard that the child was going to be removed from this loving and caring home and put into a residential home.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: This is absolutely wrong and is not putting the child at the centre. I believe that this commitment in the programme for Government is failing.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: There are only two of them here.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: There is a significant absence in the room tonight, but it is not my party leader, Deputy Mícheál Martin, as Deputy McDonald said. It is the Minister, Deputy Shane Ross, someone who has made a career out of being anti-establishment-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: -----and being an outsider. I find it most unusual that he would not have said something at Cabinet about this decision. Why was this unusual decision on the appointment of the Attorney General taken on the same day and at the same meeting as the unusual decision made about Stepaside Garda station?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Did the former Attorney General apply for the job?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Hear, hear. Well said.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: The Deputy was one of us once.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: He is in Brussels dealing with Brexit.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Is Deputy McDonald jealous?
- Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I take this opportunity to congratulate both Ministers on their appointments and wish them well. They have a huge task of work ahead of them and we look forward both to working with them and to holding them to account regarding the many challenges on the way. The Minister said he wanted to avoid rhetoric and spreading fear in this debate. I accept the point he made. Priory Hall,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Training (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: 92. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider allocating a general practitioner training programme to County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27831/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (21 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: 119. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of availability of physiotherapists in south Kildare for children with scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27830/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Creative Ireland Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: 86. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to make departmental funding available for multicultural integration events to communities such as Kildare town, Newbridge and Athy which have a large multicultural society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27576/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Action Plan for Rural Development (20 Jun 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: 88. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which tourism projects such as the development of an amenity (details supplied) can benefit rural towns and villages in view of the action plan for rural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27577/17]