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- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: I understand there is legislation which will introduce a ban on zero hour working. It will introduce the banding of hours so that where people have regular part-time work but which is not in a contract, employers will be obliged to put it in the contract. There will be other provisions to protect casual workers. It is very much part of the Government's strategy. On access to the WRC...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: As a longstanding Member of the House, the Deputy will know that QQI is a body with its own board. Ministers can only issue instructions in respect of policy issues.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: We do not issue instructions in relation to day-to-day issues. If the Deputy has made representations, I will ensure they are responded to.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: I will have to refer this to the responsible Minister, which is not Deputy Eoghan Murphy, despite his brave swimming on behalf of the cause, but the Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue and for acknowledging the extraordinary work that carers do in our community. There is no doubt that a huge number of families have very active family carers way beyond the 60,000 who receive carer's allowance or carer's benefit. A huge level of voluntary support is willingly given to support loved ones within the family. The State has over many...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: The Deputy is right that the period of consultation is over. The Minister must still evolve a set of proposals, however, and I think most people would not regard simply adjusting the respite grant, or the carer's support grant, as that €1,700 is now called, as an adequate response.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: It was one of the suggestions the Deputy made. Regarding his other suggestion of expanding eligibility for the GP card, there is clearly an ambition on the part of the Government to extend primary care to a greater number in order that they are not charged to visit a GP. All these issues, however, would have to be considered in a budgetary context. What the Government has clearly signalled...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: I reiterate the point that the Government acted very swiftly to address what is an appalling issue. We have worked hard with the affected women to get them immediate support and ensure they can have access to professional services to advise them. We have brought in outside experts and not relied on internal experts. We have brought in UK gynaecology services for advice and each person is...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: It is up to Dr. Scally to order his own work. We have provided terms of reference for him. There has already been an interim report and in my experience - I am a long time around this House - it is not often we have an independent expert appointed to do an investigation of this nature who has come back within weeks with very concrete proposals that will support the affected women with...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: It is working to ensure the other documents will be searchable for Dr. Scally. We have assured Dr. Scally that he will have the support of all agencies of Government in getting access to the records he needs. It would be inappropriate for us to be issuing instructions to someone when we have decided for him to come here to do an independent scoping report. If we did so, the Deputy would be...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: If the Deputy comes in and wants to change from week to week the instructions issued to Dr. Scally, who is conducting an independent inquiry-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: -----we will never have proper responses as the Deputy will want to change from week to week what he is seeking.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: We have provided Dr. Scally with resources to investigate this.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: We know there are parallel discussions going on in the House, as they should. We cannot come back seeking to instruct Dr. Scally in a different way every week. The Deputy asked if there are cases other than the 209 we know of. I do not have that information available to me. Part of the response was to examine cases that did not come to the attention of CervicalCheck and have an audit....
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: The timeframe has been set by Dr. Scally. He has indicated that he intends to have his work completed by the end of the summer.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The investment in health is now at unprecedented levels. It is encouraging that 22,000 operations are conducted each week in our hospitals. That is a very high number. Admittedly, there is a waiting list of 79,000. When we think of the 22,000 being treated every week, however, it shows significant progress is being made. The number of 22,000...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: To address the issue of waiting lists, the Deputy is right that 162,000 people joined the outpatient waiting list in the past three months, but in that time 832,000 outpatients were treated in our hospitals. We are delivering care. Of course, any system will have people who are joining the waiting list as it is not an immediate service, but most of these patients are there less than six...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. It is an extraordinarily serious matter and the Government is taking it very seriously. As the Deputy knows, this was something that was never brought to the attention of the Minister or any previous Minister. The Government has set up a serious incident management team to address this, and as the Deputy acknowledged, a number of changes at senior...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: As Members will know, it is Dr. Scally himself who has requested the extension of time until the end of summer.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2018)
Richard Bruton: It is at his request that this has occurred.