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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: The Tánaiste is trying to avoid answering it. I am sorry. Let us hear what the Tánaiste has to say.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: There was no mention of unsewered settlements.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wonder if the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach would indulge me. At the outset, the Minister paid tribute to Mr. Paul Dillon, who is retiring after a long career. Mr. Dillon taught me a very valuable lesson. Up to that point, I had believed legislation was made by these Houses, but I learnt in the course of the passage of the Forestry Act 2014 that it is, in fact, made in Departments and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I want to raise again the mess that is University Hospital Limerick. This morning, day surgeries were cancelled in Ennis because no patients arrived. It appears that nobody told the surgical team though. The urology surgical team, anaesthetists and nurses were all waiting for patients but none arrived. It seems to be an incredibly bad use of scarce resources. It is not unique,...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wish to speak on behalf of the motion and against the Government's amendment. I listened very carefully to what the Tánaiste had to say before he quickly departed the Chamber. It seems to me that he has offered no reason whatsoever as to why the Government is not prepared to even accept Ireland's traditional position of neutrality and encapsulate that in the countermotion, as Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (25 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I heard the very beginning of Mr. White's presentation before the vote was called. I did not hear anything after that until I came back in again so I apologise if I am asking questions to which the witnesses have already providing the answer. I am one of four Deputies who represents County Clare. Obviously, Clare has one of the biggest ash plantations in the country and so is one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (25 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wish it was as easy as that to get the Government to move on any sector, forestry or otherwise, on which I have pressed it. The other question relates to this new scheme of planting small areas. I appreciate it is a different matter but Mr. White spoke about it being difficult to determine what is lawful and what is not. There is this idea that areas can be planted but it is not at all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (25 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: It is not, no.

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I would like to ask the two Government representatives if either of them heard Marie McMahon from the mid-west hospital action group on "Morning Ireland" saying that people were afraid to go to hospital. I do not know whether that is news to them, but it is not news to me because it is something I, my family, neighbours and friends have lived for quite some time. A very close elderly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an ndéanfaidh sí cur síos ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le bunú Gaelcholáiste neamhspleách in Inis, Co. an Chláir ón 23 Márta 2023 i leith, tráth a rinne sí cur síos ar an dul chun cinn go dtí an dáta sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 26 September 2023, if she will expedite an additional school accommodation application for a school in County Clare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a domiciliary care allowance appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46558/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether or not hospital consultants or treating physicians received a payment in any of the past ten years for switching patients from brand name medicines to generic medicines; if he will list the amounts paid to individual consultants if any such payments were made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46448/23]

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I am very happy to share with my colleague or any number of colleagues who wish to have time because I simply have not formulated my thoughts on this. It seems quite clear to me that there has been an increase in excess mortality rates but I have no idea why. Various reasons are posited, some conspiratorial and others not. Deputy Paul Murphy might not wish me to join him in anything but I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 281. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent appointment to have both cataract surgeries completed at University Hospital Limerick, given that this person is waiting since last March and has practically no sight in either eye; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45729/23]

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: Last week and during the weekend, there was a lot of talk about a certain Minister being thrown under a bus. I think that is misconceived. Ministers do not go near buses. They are driven around. People get thrown under buses, in particular the people of the mid-west. One in five of the people on trolleys across the country are in the mid-west. There are 104 today. The Taoiseach visited...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (17 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 653. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the men’s shed sustainability grant of €2,000 is still available from her Department to assist with the running costs of the sheds and acquiring material for developing skills for the shedders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45199/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in each local authority area in 2022. [44252/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the difference in the figures contained on his Department's website in relation to housing market statistics (details supplied) in the columns entitled dwellings inspected and total inspections carried out; and if he will provide more details on the different inspections referred to under each of the said...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (11 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application form for a sight test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44342/23]