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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50697/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50704/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50715/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50758/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50780/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the status of speech and language therapy and assistance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50795/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for home help by a person (details supplied) for home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50814/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50708/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50794/19]

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: The words most used this evening by Members from different parties are "clarification", "misunderstanding" and "confusion". That is what is out in the public domain. I have listened attentively to what the Minister of State had to say. There are aspects of this legislation that are fine. What is being proposed is well-intentioned and acceptable. It is difficult to speak to the Minister...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I do not see why it cannot be done. The Minister of State need only go back to the drawing board and amend the Bill to exempt bingo from it. I have not been asked to lobby for monster bingo events. I was aware of them before today because friends of mine have attended monster bingo events in the South Court Hotel in Limerick and the Breaffy House Resort in County Mayo, in the spring and in...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: The impression one gets from this debate is that we all support the small bingo operations in community halls, which we do. I do not see why we should give the impression that, as legislators, we are out to get at the monster bingo events. There are thousands of people who adore monster events such as bingo week and the type of event I attended in the INEC in The Gleneagle Hotel in...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Somebody should have explained that to the Taoiseach before he stood up-----

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am only stating a fact.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Let us not give the impression we are against monster bingo events, because there is nothing wrong with them. The Minister of State has to clarify to the people, whether they are the small clubs that benefit from bingo events or the weekly bingo events going on since 1958, what in the name of God is wrong with allowing them continue. We should leave it to them to determine what prize funds...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am not going to pick a row with Deputy Thomas Byrne because I do not want to do so but he made comments about people meeting people-----

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and being lobbied by sharp-suited lobbyists.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am not talking to the Deputies at all, nor have I any intention in the world of talking to them.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: The people I met were people who play bingo. I met people from Deputy Shortall's constituency yesterday and they were the nicest people in the world that one could wish to meet. They were nice and respectable people. They were not what I would call lobbyists. They were people who came here because they had concerns. They heard what the Minister of State was proposing, they read about it...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: All I am saying is the people I met were the salt of the earth. They want to continue playing bingo and they have grave concerns about that. This has still not been put right tonight because there is still worry and concern out there and there are messages coming through that there is no clarity about the funds that will be made available and if they will be under threat. Another thing has...