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Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Regulations (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 485. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the non-compliance with procurement regulations on the part of the HSE in recent years; the circumstances in which this took place; and the steps which were taken in order to rectify same. [25823/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Regulations (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 486. To ask the Minister for Health the steps which were taken regarding chapter 14 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2013 which identified significant instances of non compliance in relation to procurement regulations; and the steps his department has taken to rectify same [25824/17]

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I and my party welcome the legislation and support its passing, as the Minister of State is aware. The Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill allows courts to award periodic payment orders to compensate injured victims in cases of catastrophic injury where long-term permanent care will be required instead of the awarding of lump sum awards of damages. This is long overdue. In 2010, the working...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Caranua was established to manage €110 million pledged by religious congregations to support survivors for the remainder of their lives. It has emerged in recent days that there are a few discrepancies in how this money has been spent, with funding allocated to provide services to survivors having been spent on rent of a premises by Caranua. It is my understanding that the Committee...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Commission for Energy Regulation Staff (24 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied the staffing resource levels of the Commission for Energy Regulation is sufficient; if there has been a review of the staffing levels; his plans to increase staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24846/17]

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (23 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The southern part of metropolitan Cork has experienced significant growth in population. Thar timpeall ar an Dúglas agus i mBaile an Róistigh tá an pobal thart ar 25,000 duine agus i gCarraigh Uí Leighin tá an pobal tar éis méadú ó 12,000 go 16,000 ó bhí 2006 ann. Consequently, and rightly, new schools have been planned for these areas,...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (23 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am not terribly reassured by that. The site for the Gaelcholáiste was secured in 2010 and we are now in May 2017. The Department is entirely capable of delivering a building before December 2019 on a site that has already been purchased. The potential of the school is being held back and it is not good enough to say it has to go to the back of the queue. The desire to build this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: As the Taoiseach will know, there was much in the programme for Government, to which Sinn Féin objected from the outset, but, even by this Government's standards and its own brand of politics, its first year has been a failure. Policing and justice are in crisis. The health service is in crisis. Homelessness and housing are an ongoing crisis. Níl an réiteach ar an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Recently the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, released figures showing that overcrowding levels for the first four months of this year were are their highest levels since records began, with 36,048 waiting on trolleys from the start of the year until the end of April. Last night in my own constituency, there were 26 patients on trolleys in Cork University Hospital and 16 in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá go leor imní ann faoi pholasaí an Rialtais i dtaobh na Gaolainne. Sa daonáireamh is déanaí, bhí go leor ábhar imní ann freisin. Don chéad uair ó 1947, bhí laghdú ar líon na ndaoine le cumas acu sa Ghaolainn. Tar éis 70 bliain de fás - fás measartha, b'fhéidir - tá sé tagtha chun deiridh...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It appears the Minister has either disappeared or decided he is going to personally investigate fraud himself. The programme for Government states the Government will honour its commitment to recognise the state of Palestine. That vote was taken by the Dáil and Seanad two and a half years ago. Níl an Rialtas tar éis faic a dhéanamh i dtaobh an ábhar seo ó...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I think the State recognises the state of Israel. It is the state of Palestine.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: What is the position on the commitment?

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I was there this morning. There are no regulations for foster care.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Joe and his family were known to the Health Service Executive child and family services since he was a young child. There was a history of domestic violence and alcohol abuse in the family home. He had been listed by Tusla as a high priority case and, sadly, took his own life at the age of 15 years. Despite the fact that he had been identified as a high priority case, he had not been...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Taoiseach appears to have misunderstood the context. They are not two or three cases that I have come across. They were examined by the national review panel, which was set up by the Government to provide information for Tusla, the HSE and the Health Information and Quality Authority on the failures that were happening in cases involving children. The Department and the Minister are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Findings of HIQA Statutory Foster Care Service Inspection Reports: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for an excellent presentation. In the first instance, it should be recognised that the role of foster carers is vital. Generally, foster carers are motivated by very noble and selfless reasons. The system would collapse without foster carers, but nonetheless the report is quite frightening and worrying in many respects, in particular the fact there is no official...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Education Policy (16 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the stay back provision and third level graduate scheme is to be extended from 12 months as outlined in the action plan for education 2017; when this will be in place and implemented; and if there will be a retroactive permission for 1g stamp holders. [23209/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status regarding the development of national standards for direct provision centres. [22784/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Data (16 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 249. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full combined cost of increasing maternity benefit by €20, €30, €40 and €50 per week, while extending maternity benefit by two, three, four and five weeks, in tabular form. [22782/17]