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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (13 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if payment under the criminal injuries compensation tribunal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49790/12]

Tax Transparency Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to speak on, and support, the Bill. I congratulate Deputy Eoghan Murphy on his work. Everyone alluded to the advantage of transparency in respect of taxes. It is very important but I also wish to deal with the educational side of the matter so that the public becomes aware of how pressure comes on for the allocation of taxation to different areas. Thankfully,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I agree on the language issue. I have come across a psychiatrist who did not have proper language skills. Communication in the psychiatric profession is vital. I have heard complaints about patients and families who hardly understood what a psychiatrist was saying.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: Would the Minister be able to do so prior to Report Stage?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: Psychological therapist or counsellor.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: In 2008 a committed Minister of State, John Moloney, made the very same commitments as the Minister, but the system frustrated him. It has not happened for five years. How can I have confidence the system will do it before 2014?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: Why was it not asked?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I do not doubt the Minister's bona fides, but Ministers have been giving me similar assurances for eight years. Implementation of the 2005 Act was to be self-financing through charges for registration and certification. We are not asking the Minister to set up a registration board before his work has been completed, but the Bill offers him the ability to make a decision on it. Nothing was...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: In 2010 the Fine Gael Front Bench agreed to introduce this amendment and a Private Members' Bill was published in the name of the party on 1 October 2010. There was unanimous support for the amendment.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: I want to give the background to why amendment No. 1 was not included in the first place. This was debated at length during the debate on the 2004 Bill where an amendment was proposed by former Deputy McManus and seconded by me. The then Minister of State, Mr. Tim O'Malley, was supportive of it and would have included it only that the various organisations were in disagreement about whether...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (8 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 474 of 2 October 2012, the position regarding a reduction (details supplied). [49343/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (8 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will consider an application for funding under the Dormant Accounts Fund 2010 for establishment of new youth cafe facilities for Limerick Youth Service (details supplied). [49342/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (6 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding universal social charge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48436/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (6 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the universal social charge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [48632/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (6 Nov 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [48209/12]

Statement of Estimates for Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion (25 Oct 2012)

Dan Neville: I move:That Dáil Éireann take note of the Statement of Estimates of moneys required in respect of ongoing expenditure for the period beginning on 1st January, 2013 and ending on 31st December, 2013, prepared and published by the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission in accordance with section 13 of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003, as amended by section 8 of the Houses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Gender Equality: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Dan Neville: I am aware that in China there are more suicides among women than men, whereas in the Western world, the ratio is 4:1 men to women.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Gender Equality: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Dan Neville: I welcome the delegates and thank them for their succinct presentation. Although we have heard many presentations on this matter, we have not heretofore been given the same level of information. I have two questions for the delegates. How committed is the international community, in particular the richer countries such as the United States, Germany, France and Britain, to tackling the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (24 Oct 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views regarding the urgent need to invest in upgrade of Ardnacrusa power station in order that electrical generation output can be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46639/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Bullying of Children (23 Oct 2012)

Dan Neville: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the increase in cyber-bullying, if there are regulations to prevent websites such as a website called ASK-FM from entering society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46360/12]