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Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: Hold on. I do not need legal advice on a simple question. Deputies are requesting that an opportunity be given to make statements. It is a matter for the House, not a matter of legal advice for me.

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: I might not be a lawyer but I have common sense. I have been here for 36 or 37 years and I will not be dictated to by anybody in this House, not even the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: Hold on. The Taoiseach is not in the Chair. I put it to the Taoiseach that four Members of this House have posed a question. They are not agreeing to the Order of Business. It is a matter for the Taoiseach to decide whether he is agreeing to that. I will immediately put the question on the Order of Business.

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: Yes, of course.

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: I call the Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, Deputy Joe McHugh, to announce the Order of Business.

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: There are three proposals to be put before the House today. Is the proposal for dealing with Tuesday's business agreed to?

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: I call Deputy Micheál Martin. This is to be only a brief intervention.

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: I gave the Taoiseach an extra minute to allow him to answer the question fully.

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: The Deputies well know that I have no responsibility for the answers the Taoiseach gives.

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: We will move on to Sinn Féin and Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: Please, allow Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: Go raibh maith agat. The Deputy's time is up.

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: I remind the House that misleading the House is one thing but deliberately misleading the House is another matter. We are all mature politicians. I want you to stay within the Standing Orders.

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: The terms of the reference of the tribunal are about communications involving the Commissioner. Let us be very careful. I call the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: I ask all Members who are raising issues today to keep an eye on the clock.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services Provision (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: 53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding his efforts to improve mobile telephone signals; the progress made to date in terms of the recommendations of the mobile telephone and broadband task force with particular reference to County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48950/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the further expansion of the DEIS programme in 2018; his further plans to reopen the programme for those schools which did not receive DEIS designation in 2017 but fulfil the criteria as identified in the recently published deprivation report and that require additional resources and supports in their respective schools; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools added to the DEIS designations list 2017 following the verification process engaged in by the respective schools; his views on the verification process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49294/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied); if his Department is treating this project with the utmost importance and dealing with it as a priority due to the pressures the school is under in its current building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49374/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (21 Nov 2017)

Pat Gallagher: 423. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1004 to 1006, inclusive, of 26 July 2017 and 94 of 15 November 2017, if he will clarify which of the statements is correct; his policy for hospitals' (details supplied) long-stay accommodation beds; if previous records on this issue will be corrected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49389/17]