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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (4 Oct 2016)

James Browne: Fianna Fáil will be supporting this Bill which makes necessary changes in a number of important areas of health provision. The Bill was originally published last January, and the delay in bringing it before the House is somewhat unfortunate. Nonetheless, the Bill is to be welcomed. While the Bill is described mostly as being technical in nature, it addresses a number of key issues...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Management of Chronic Care Illness: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

James Browne: Do the capital and service costs involved in the first few years of the independent contract model act as a barrier to entry? Are GPs not going into practice or do people choose not to become GPs because they simply cannot access capital supports or do not make a profit or make a loss in the first years? How can this be addressed in context of the current independent contract model? The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (28 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 48. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the number of community gardaí in the Wexford Garda division. [27408/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (28 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 77. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda reservists in the Wexford Garda Division. [27409/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Valuations (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rateable valuation and calculation method applied to solar panels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24447/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 16. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in each county broken down in ranks, in tabular form; the number of Garda cars and motorbikes in County Wexford; the number of gardaí per population based on the preliminary 2016 census figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24430/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he or his Department carried out a report or a review on awarding procurement contracts (details supplied) where there had been specific complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24425/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if cost was a key criteria for the recent awarding of contracts for senior alarms; the other criteria used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24426/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 554. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he or his Department carried out a report or a review on awarding procurement contracts where there had been specific complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24427/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 555. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the recent tendering process for senior alarms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24428/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied regarding the outcome of the process for procuring the new providers of senior alarms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24811/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for the downgrading of the turnover requirements for construction companies tendering for house building contracts, considering that many companies are struggling to meet the turnover requirements due to the low build rate in the construction sector in the past five years; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1015. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service ran a temporary competition to fill two operations resource manager positions in the north Leinster area without recourse to a then live national panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24420/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1016. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service Management transferred an operations resource manager from Cork city to a vacant quality safety and risk manager position in the absence of a transfer policy and subsequently appointed a person into the position without any recourse to a then live national officer panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24421/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1017. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 21 April 2016, if the National Ambulance Service can provide the exact dates that the six vacant officer positions became vacant, specifying month and year (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24422/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1018. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recruitment panels for all grades in the HSE currently being used by the HSE national recruitment service that are over four years in existence and are still being drawn from for the purposes of promotion and appointment; the start dates for all panels that are still live and over four years old; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1019. To ask the Minister for Health if the Public Appointments Service notified the National Ambulance Service that its grade 6 panels for ambulance officers could no longer be drawn from and must be disbanded; if so, the date of that correspondence and by whom was it made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24424/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1020. To ask the Minister for Health the steps and procedures being taken in the transfer of Console clients' files to ensure the protection of confidentiality and consent of clients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24429/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1021. To ask the Minister for Health the number of call outs the ambulance service made which did not meet the national standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24431/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (16 Sep 2016)

James Browne: 1022. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance stations in each county and the ratio per population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24432/16]