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Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: As we know, BreastCheck , which was introduced 18 years ago, has had a massive impact. It has saved many thousands of women's lives and it has been independently and internationally verified as one of the best screening programmes in the world. In the report for 2015–16, it is stated 198,000 women were offered screening and 146,000 took up the offer. This is an uptake of 74.7%,...

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: As I stated, BreastCheck has been independently and internationally verified as one of the two best screening programmes in the world. Everyone can have full confidence in it as a screening programme, as the Tánaiste said, but information needs to be given to the public generally on what screening programmes are and do and their limitations. That information may help to avoid some of...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: I also congratulate Deputy Gallagher on introducing this motion. If we, as a Parliament, did not scrutinise this statutory instrument, the third statutory instrument in a series, we would be accused of being grossly derelict in our duties. However, when we did so, all we got were briefings from the Department that my party was endangering the country's future and would bring all sorts of...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: Ask the sponsoring Minister. Where is he?

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: He has gone missing.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: Which Minister?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (22 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on reports that one in five teaching positions in Irish at second level are being filled by teachers without a qualification to teach the language. [22428/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: This morning the NESC published a report calling on the Government to build homes on publicly owned lands. It is extraordinary that a body of its significance still feels it has to remind the Government to take this. The report states, "Publicly owned sites now have a central role in addressing the housing crisis and starting the transition to a new system of active land management and...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: For several years Fianna Fáil and Deputy Michael McGrath, in particular, have been highlighting the burden of ever soaring insurance costs. Deputy Michael McGrath has raised the issue in the House, as well as with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, and the European Commission. All Deputies are aware of the burden of soaring insurance costs on businesses and...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: I appreciate that the Tánaiste cannot comment because these are independent investigations. That is precisely one of the issues, namely, they are independent of the Government. It took two outside agencies to intervene to do something. The Government has talked and published reports while businesses and consumers face significantly excessive increases in their insurance costs. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Ireland Expenditure (15 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: 491. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expenditure to date by Fáilte Ireland on each of the 24 projects named in 2017 as a stage 1 pass project via the grant scheme for large tourism projects; if each project is within budget and continues to meet the qualifying criteria; if any of the projects have failed to meet targets set by Fáilte Ireland; if there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (15 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: 492. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Fáilte Ireland will announce details of the small grant scheme for the Wild Atlantic Way; the criteria that will be used to assess applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20829/18]

Report on Mental Health Care: Motion (10 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: I too compliment Deputy Browne and the rest of the committee, including Senator Freeman, on their work and the report. This Oireachtas has been criticised a lot for its inaction and inactivity, and the brand of new politics is a handy kicking bag for some, but one thing we can say with certainty is that it has brought a focus on mental health like no other before it. I am sorry Deputy...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: The Minister has just repeated that he has full confidence in the director general of the HSE, however there were leaks from Cabinet last Tuesday which suggested that other Ministers apparently wanted the nation to know that they do not share that confidence.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: I am getting there. I note that it is apparently a criminal offence to leak from Cabinet. The Taoiseach leaked that last night. Perhaps the Minister for Justice and Equality might want to copy that message to all his colleagues in order to avoid a major Garda raid on the next Cabinet meeting. Will the Minister outline the progress being made on the commitment in the programme for...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: As elected representatives, we have the honour in the House of having been given the responsibility to debate issues and introduce legislation to improve the country and the lives of our citizens. There will always be political differences; it is a political job. There will be heated debates and slagging matches. Overall, however, all Members are committed to making a positive difference...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: There are no words and I accept that, but the actions of which the Minister speaks are not meeting the challenge. Emma was hugely complimentary about her own GP and her gynaecologist this morning, but that GP, like all others, received a proper information pack only last night on how to deal with the avalanche of concerned inquiries in their surgeries. That took two weeks. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Provision (9 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: That is an incredibly cold response on the part of the HSE. I know it is not the Minister of State's response or his feeling on the matter. One cannot just dispatch people from a five-day service to a three-day service. One cannot speak about a national dementia strategy and people in communities and then cut their service in this manner, give them a pat on the head and hope they will not...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Provision (9 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. Deputy Lisa Chambers and I have been approached by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and some of the 12 clients from across County Mayo who use the Castlebar centre on a Monday-to-Friday basis for respite and other services. From the end of May, this will become a three-day service and no transport will be provided from various...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review the national secondary classification of a road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20253/18]