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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (18 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his views on the fact that non-departmental school clerical staff are on inferior contracts and will receive no pension compared to departmental secretaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42796/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: The people voted on 25 May to repeal the eighth amendment. The majority voted in favour of introducing abortion into Ireland. The Dáil and the Seanad must now deal with that decision but many of the people who voted "Yes" and many who voted "No" have concerns about aspects of the Bill, and their voices have a right to be heard in this debate. The right to freedom of conscience is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domiciliary Care Allowance (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: There are major financial implications in having a child with severe disabilities in a household. One person who contacted me recently about a completely unrelated matter mentioned this issue as an afterthought, perhaps because she did not think anything could be done about it and I do not whether it can. I told her that I would raise the matter at the first opportunity in the Dáil. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domiciliary Care Allowance (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, for taking this issue. I note that the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, has other commitments and is unavailable today and I thank her office for contacting me to inform me of that. The Minister of State will be aware that the domiciliary care allowance is a monthly payment to the carer of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: They will not give them the findings of the review. That is the problem. They should do that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: Page 48 of the programme for Government states that the Government would establish a working group to identify the potential for local post offices to act as hubs to facilitate other services, such as health, transport and a one-stop shop for Government services. Unfortunately we have seen what has happened since that. In my constituency 11 post offices are listed for closure. We all know...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance if a proposal (details supplied) will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42614/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flood Risk Management (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if water levels in Lough Allen are to be reduced again due to flooding concerns; if an environmental impact study has been undertaken for this plan for Lough Allen basin; if not, when it is expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42661/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 140. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps her Department and the IDA are taking to increase job creation and attract companies to counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Donegal; the recent occasion on which the IDA visited these counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42637/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug Spinraza will be approved for spinal muscular atrophy sufferers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42676/18]

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: Iam glad to have an opportunity to speak on this issue. I commend my colleague, Deputy O'Callaghan, for bringing forward the Bill. As the previous speakers have said, we have read the story in the Irish Examinerabout three young women who were raped and did not feel they could go to the Garda. I do not know what is wrong. Perhaps they felt guilty because there may have been alcohol...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Administration (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which a passport application can be made by a person (details supplied) in a country in which there is no Irish consulate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42448/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 409. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to secure general practitioner-led primary care in Carrigallen, County Leitrim, where no permanent doctor is positioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42012/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Policy (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 590. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to outline the reason foster carers are no longer covered by public liability insurance through Tusla; when foster carers were notified that they were no longer covered; the efforts being made to address these matters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41912/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: Applying for a medical card today reminds me of applying for planning permission. One applies for planning permission and seven weeks later one gets a request for further information. One sends the information in and then one might get a subsequent request. That is fair enough for planning permission, but for medical cards, people are being notified four or five weeks after they apply by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 12. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to protect the interests of beef farmers in view of understandable frustration at poor prices and the ongoing systemic flaws in the relationship between farmers and factories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41263/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: As the Minister will be aware, most of the farming organisations have pulled out of the beef forum body that was set up a number of years to ensure a fair price for beef. I would like know the steps the Minister will take in the interests of beef farmers in view of the understandable frustration at poor prices and the ongoing systematic flaws in the relationship between farmers and meat...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: It is crucial that some body is set up to oversee what is happening between farmers and meat factories because there is a situation in this country where farmers have bought expensive store cattle and some of them are not leaving any profit whatsoever. When one considers that €3.70 per kg is what is being paid in Ireland for good quality cattle, in England farmers are getting...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Eligibility (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: 33. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made to ensure all applications under the areas of natural constraints scheme selected for a remote sensing eligibility inspection are carried out at the earliest date; when all finalised ANC payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41016/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: No one can say that Fianna Fáil has not provided stability during an immensely difficult period. Outside the bubble of this House, the daily grind of getting things done is what matters to the people we all represent. There is an obsession with spin across the floor of the House, and we have not been short of PR events and policies announced, launched and re-announced with no follow...