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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2018)

Dara Calleary: Two.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (2 Oct 2018)

Dara Calleary: 499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount his Department has invested in An Post over the past two years; the way in which this was invested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39493/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: A new coalition.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: The Minister mentioned earlier that the Government will establish a rent register. It is absolutely crucial it is established particularly given the report this morning. It has been promised on many occasions. When exactly will renters in this country have access to that rent register and to the information? Will they have access to it before the end of this year?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: We all saw and heard Rebecca Carter this morning. She is an 18 year old student from Wexford who completed her leaving certificate examination this year hoping to get enough points to do veterinary medicine in University College Dublin, UCD. When Rebecca received her results in August, she fell just short for the first and second round offers and sought a recheck of her papers. That review...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: We all smiled with Rebecca, but where were we last August when Rebecca was in tears when she missed out on her place? Where were we when she was told that she should not have missed out on that place but that she would not have it until this time next year? We smiled because Rebecca had to go to the High Court to smile. She had to go that far and spend that kind of money to secure her...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (27 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is in receipt of an emergency works application from a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the status of the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39260/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bituminous Fuel Ban (27 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the smoky coal ban commencing 1 September 2018 with all stocks of smoky coal to be sold off and burnt by 1 September 2019 which has not been enacted as promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39266/18]

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Bill. I never served on a town council, but my late father served as chair of Ballina Town Council twice and before he went into public life served as town engineer, a position also occupied by my grandfather. From that vantage, I note the debate we had last night is absolutely relevant to this debate. Town councils, urban councils and borough corporations were the most...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: The meeting in Guernsey was held up by the Tánaiste in particular, as, possibly, a game-changer or a major meeting in the context of the continued vacuum around the Northern Ireland Executive, yet the British Prime Minister did not turn up to it. The strength of the British-Irish Council, BIC, over the years has been full participation and full sharing of information around the table...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: Does the Taoiseach have his high-visibility jacket ready?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: Will that be on camera?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: In his response on rural services earlier, the Taoiseach mentioned his ambitions for broadband. A total of 543,000 homes, businesses and farms are awaiting the roll-out of the new national broadband plan but the process is more like "Lanigan's Ball" than anything else with so many people stepping in and stepping out of it. Will the Taoiseach confirm the procurement rules are still being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: The National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: Does the Taoiseach get it? Does he get what it is like for parents and children who are waiting on those lists? The Taoiseach spoke about standard operating procedures and new rules for the disabilities assessment. Does he actually get what it is like to be on a waiting on a list for over a year, 7,000 of them for an initial occupational therapy, OT, assessment? Does he get what it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: In November six years ago a referendum was put to the people about children. We were told it was historic and that its aim was to establish a child-centred approach to protecting all children. Another aim was to support families who were struggling rather than allow crisis situations to develop. Part of Article 42A inserted in the Constitution recognises that all children have rights and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: 267. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an initial urology consultation by county; the waiting times for same by county; if he will engage with the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, to address waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38329/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: On Tuesday we had the launch of the report on the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland with the usual razzmatazz that this Government does for every launch. It is a very detailed report and I thank Kathleen O'Toole and her team for the work they have done. A specific recommendation of the report relates to the formation of a strategic threat analysis centre that would respond...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: I wish to raise the issue of spinal muscular atrophy, SMA. In doing so I welcome the fact that we have just had a meeting hosted by Deputy Lisa Chambers with families from across the country who are affected by this condition. We heard fantastic testimony from Grace and Cillian, who are children with this condition. SMA is a group of inherited diseases of the motor nerves that cause very...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (20 Sep 2018)

Dara Calleary: The issue was raised with the Taoiseach by Deputies Lisa Chambers and John Curran on Tuesday. Deputy Lisa Chambers just hosted a meeting to which every Member of the House was invited, and there are several hundred people outside the front gate of Leinster House, so the matter should be on the Tánaiste's radar. I do not have to give him notice of questions I ask. He says he wants the...