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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I support the foetal pain relief Bill, which I was happy to co-sponsor when it was introduced in May. I continue to support its humanitarian measures completely and I encourage my colleagues to allow this Bill to progress to Committee Stage. The Bill will place an obligation to give pain relief to unborn babies before late-term abortions. Scientific evidence now suggests unborn babies can...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges facing Women in Sport: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for coming before the committee today. I know he is a sportsperson and glad to see the Dublin ladies' team and other women participating in sport. I have been involved in sport all my life and have trained and managed ladies' and men's football teams. In the Minister of State's introduction, he mentioned all the elite athletes doing very well in horse riding,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on a guardianship payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60891/21]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak. In Ireland our health insurance is supposed to be community rated. The Health Insurance Acts prohibit risk rating, the reason being to ensure people will, in theory, pay the same price regardless of their age or health status. The health insurance market in Ireland is worth over €2.5 billion and 2.31 million people are covered, which represents...

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion. Along with colleagues in the Regional Group I bring this motion before the House today and hope that all sides of the House will support us. Ireland has one of the largest maritime areas in the EU and it is over seven times larger than our land mass. Our maritime area covers almost 500,000 sq. km, which represents a 220 million acre...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 178. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60876/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (7 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 601. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60352/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Page 28 of the programme for Government states that the Government will continue to prioritise reform of the insurance sector with particular emphasis on motor, public liability and employer's liability. I spoke to the Department of the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, a few weeks ago and mentioned a trampoline park in Dundalk. In fairness the Minister of State has given us a bit of help...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I draw the Taoiseach's attention to a serious issue faced by many new parents since the cyberattack on the HSE in May and in the context of the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since May, parents of newborn babies have been having extreme difficulties in registering their births. In many circumstances, they have been unable to register a birth at all, and that means those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I asked the Taoiseach for a definite timeline. To be honest, most of the people who come into my office are women with children. They are looking for help. I became a grandfather recently again and it is a fantastic and joyous time. However, these people coming to me are struggling and want help. They need medical attention, a GP-visit card and the children's allowance. These people are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: For the third time.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Towards Referees, Officials and Players in Sport: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome everybody. The most common word used today has been "volunteers". Without volunteers in all organisations we would have no sport. If we had no sport, there would be an awful lot of depressed people out there. I am a sportsperson and enjoy playing sport. I played soccer, Gaelic, rugby, athletics and tiddlywinks and did everything involved in sport. I have nothing but admiration...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place with the shortage of student accommodation on and off campus to help students with the high costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58616/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I wish to raise the issue of Dundalk Institute of Technology's ambition to become a technological university. There is no doubt that the technological university project is transforming higher education across the State. With the recent announcements of the Technological University of the Shannon, the technological university for the south east and the Atlantic technological university, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: As I have told the Minister, Dundalk Institute of Technology is an integral part of the north east. It was established in 1971 and has 6,000 students and 500 staff, as I mentioned. The institute now needs to be part of the TU project. The Minister said there was a problem. If there is a problem, I would appreciate it if he and the Department would sort it out because, at the end of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the likely timeline by which Dundalk Institute of Technology will attain technological university status as part of the technological university project which has transformed higher education across the State (details supplied); and if he will ensure that the institute will not continue to be left behind. [59076/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The technological university, TU, project has transformed higher education across the State. With the recent announcements of the Technological University of the Shannon, the Technological University of the South East, and now the Atlantic Technological University, the national jigsaw, as the Minister has described it, is almost complete. However, the glaringly absent piece of this jigsaw...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be an increase in the number of students that will be able to access SUSI support grants due to the increase of €1,000 in the income threshold; the way this will be dealt with; the number of additional applications he anticipates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58614/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scholarship and grant schemes that are currently available to third-level students and for students that are refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58617/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has in place over the next five years for student nurses who wish to study to fill the vacant positions in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58615/21]