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Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Group 5 concerns amendments to the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in regard to debt relief notices. There are two amendments, Nos. 9 and 12. Amendment No. 9 makes two changes to section 27 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, which deals with the initiation of a debt relief notice process by a debtor. A new subsection (4) extends the provisions of the previous subsection by now adding that...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Group 6 concerns provisions in regard to the prescribed financial statement, which is a critical requirement in the new debt resolution processes in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. Amendment No. 10 contains technical amendments to section 29(2) of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. The new paragraph (c) in subsection (2) in regard to the prescribed financial statement completed by the...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The subject matter of amendments Nos. 11, 17, 18, 21 and 22 relates to court consideration of applications for the new debt resolution processes. Amendment No. 11 amends section 31 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, which concerns the supporting documentation that the insolvency service must furnish to the appropriate court when making the application for a debt relief notice. The...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Group 8 concerns amendments to the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in regard to personal insolvency practitioners. There are three amendments, Nos. 14, 15 and 16, in this group. Amendment No. 14 limits the scope of section 49 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 to the initial appointment by a debtor of a personal insolvency practitioner to represent him or her and to noting the termination or...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I am taking the Bill on behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality who is away on EU business. A total of 29 amendments, all of which were Government amendments, were proposed and approved on Committee and Report Stages in the Dáil. All of them are technical or refinements of the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1988 or the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 to facilitate the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Amendments Nos. 2 and 9 were made in the Dáil to clarify the current situation that maternity services for women are provided by or on behalf of the HSE, both in a hospital context and in a community or home setting. This is in line with current practice in hospitals and in the community. The majority of women choose to have their babies delivered in hospitals. Therefore, it is...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Amendments Nos. 4 to 8, inclusive and 16 relate to the deletion of section 18 and the Fourth Schedule of the Bill, and consequential amendments to delete the reference to the Seventh Schedule in section 13. These deletions were necessary following confirmation by Swinford District Hospital that it does not have any patients for whom charges payable in respect of inpatient services provided...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The first grouping takes in amendments Nos. 1, 3 and 10. Section 2 of the Bill provides for the commencement of the Bill's provisions and amendment No. 1 made by the Dáil related to the commencement provisions in respect of the private inpatient charge, together with technical amendments regarding other commencement provisions. To briefly summarise the technical changes to section 2,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has the operational responsibility for the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme, which includes the medical card and GP visit card benefits. When a medical card comes up for review, the current circumstances of the medical card holder are evaluated by the HSE to ensure that he/she continues to hold eligibility and that this involves a standard review...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Draft Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations are currently being prepared to introduce stricter prescribing and dispensing controls on benzodiazepines, anabolic steroids and z drugs. It is planned to finalise the draft Statutory Instruments shortly and publish these on the Department’s website as part of a written consultation process. This will be followed by a 3 month EU...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: In 2012, the HSE completed a detailed analysis of the numbers and distribution of public health nurses, registered general nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists. The analysis revealed considerable variation across the HSE's 17 Integrated Service Areas in ratios of health care professionals to population, and to population numbers in areas of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Water fluoridation and the use of appropriate fluorides is a major plank of public health policy in Ireland in the prevention and management of tooth decay. In 2002 the Forum on Fluoridation, which was established to review this policy, concluded that the fluoridation of public piped water supplies should continue as a public health measure. The Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 675, 677, 741 and 742 together. Under the provisions of the Health Act 1970, the assessment for a medical card is determined primarily by reference to the means, including the income and expenditure, of the applicant and his or her partner and dependants. There is no automatic entitlement to a medical card for persons with a specific illness, such as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...