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Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State for her response and I appreciate the ongoing work taking place on this issue and the work Genio has done for many years. The additional €4 million provided under the HSE service plan is welcome but it is not adequate. I appreciate the Minister of State and the HSE are liaising and negotiating with service providers but they need to ensure at this stage...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue for discussion. I also welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, to the House. I was here this time last year raising a similar issue and thankfully the difficulties were addressed for the parents and children in question. Unfortunately, we are back again this year with new parents and new children facing the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the European Union: Discussion (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Mr. Jacobs and thank him for his contribution. This time next year we will have 600 plus fewer county councillors, and depending on the passage of the referendum on the abolition of the Seanad, we may have fewer Members of the Oireachtas in 2016. The number of politicians in Ireland will be reduced. That will give more of a profile or the possibility of a higher profile for MEPs....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the continuation of favourable tax treatment to families involved in passing on family farms from one generation to the next particularly in view of how central such a policy is in sustaining the model of agriculture preferred here and in Europe and how central farms are to our rural communities. [29290/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Agencies Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether there is a conflict of interest between the statutory autonomy of the Valuation Tribunal and the financial control over the Tribunal by the Commissioner of Valuation, the accounting office of the Valuation Office, which is the respondent in all valuation appeals heard by the tribunal. [29289/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Regulation (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 184. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the statistics from Forfás on Ireland's competitiveness performance which demonstrates a less favourable ranking in terms of dealing with construction permits, getting electricity and enforcing contacts when compared with other similar sized nations, the steps he is taking to improve Ireland's performance. [29291/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 350. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made on introducing the legislation which will underpin the new housing assistance payment which will provide certainty to persons with longer term housing need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29281/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 351. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken to ensure that both social housing tenants and persons in receipt of rent supplement have access to an independent and impartial process to report and resolve problems including the standard of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29286/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 352. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to regulate housing associations and co-operatives. [29287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 397. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the efforts he has made to increase the use of non-judicial alternatives, such as mediation, for resolving disputes and settling issues. [29285/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Strategies (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 490. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the progress of the preparation of the national early years strategy; and if she could provide an indicative time frame for publication of same. [29283/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 491. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the latest figures available indicating the uptake of the free preschool year; and the way the quality of services provided under this scheme is measured. [29284/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 568. To ask the Minister for Health if Addison's disease will be added to the list of illnesses on the long term illness scheme in view of the increase in the cost of essential medication to treat this life-long illness. [29282/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 569. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive currently operates a sleep seizure observation facility at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, or at any other hospital here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29288/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be afforded to extending the remit of registered nurse prescribers, who have previously been permitted to prescribe medication for nursing home/residential care centres, so as to enable such professionals to write prescriptions for medical card holders in the same facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29292/13]

Access to the Countryside Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: The Deputy is a member of a privileged elite.

Access to the Countryside Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: I compliment Deputy Robert Dowds on his well drafted and constructed Bill. I am sorry I did not get an opportunity to meet with him in advance of the debate to discuss his proposals. I understand he consulted with the Irish Farmers Associations among others. However, several landowners in my own area in Connemara have contacted me to express their concerns about what might be proposed in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 39. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in the context of the recent LEADER programme funding allocations, his attention has been drawn to the disparity of the new allocation of moneys to Comhar na nOileain Teoranta for Connemara and all Gaeltacht regions from the original allocation to Meitheal Forbatha na Gaeltachta Teoranta; and the steps that will be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 64. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Gaeltacht areas will be prioritised in the review of LEADER funding in August to take account of the inability of LEADER applications to be processed for communities located in Gaeltacht areas during the time consumed in winding up MFG and appointing a new administrative body. [28080/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Enlargement (11 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the upcoming and welcome accession of Croatia to the European Union, the steps his Department, both in the context of the Irish EU Presidency and otherwise, is taking to ensure that EU policy is focused on the acceleration of the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the union in view of the fact that this...