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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I have one more question. I very much like the idea of the GAA fun and run. How many clubs are doing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Is it in 40 clubs now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Therefore it is not in any clubs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Are those 40 clubs throughout the country or are they just focused near Dublin, inside the Pale?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the GAA for the good work it does. I see it at home regularly. The work the GAA does, and the volunteers who participate, are appreciated across the board.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 47. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has taken steps to address the fact that many children in foster care are placed under a voluntary care order; and the issues arising from same. [25645/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Internet Safety (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she has taken to enact the recommendations of the Internet content governance advisory council; if additional steps will be taken to ensure the safety of children online; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 55. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of progress in implementing the findings of the ESRI report on the school completion programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25649/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister of State has answered my question. He has told me it is to do with the county councils so why has the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government not come here to answer my questions? I do not have a problem with the Minister of State's Department, it seems, but rather with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Its people are not answering their...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I did not know until today to whom I should address it.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this issue this evening. What Minister would be before me this evening was one of the best kept secrets. I have been trying to find out for a long time who is responsible for parliamentary questions on this matter and under the remit of what Department do they fall. On 28 May I tabled nine questions of which seven were ruled out of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual losses to the Exchequer which result from retailer VAT reclaims owing to below invoice cost selling of alcohol; the estimated losses to the Exchequer since the repeal of the groceries order in 2006 relating to below invoice cost selling of alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24618/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are other grants available, bar the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, partial grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24738/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of section 12 of the Children's Act recorded on the PULSE system in 2016 and 2017, by each district in tabular form. [24556/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 476. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of section 13 of the Mental Health Act recorded on the PULSE system in 2016 and 2017, by each district in tabular form. [24557/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 590. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out a national scheme to allow children who do not need medical or surgical management to be examined in the community by optometrists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24271/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 591. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out the Sligo cataract scheme nationally with optometrists and hospital eye departments working together; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24272/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 668. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 to include a ban on below invoice cost selling in view of the fact that minimum unit pricing will be delayed pending the formation of a power sharing executive in Northern Ireland in order to ensure the practice of retailing cheap alcohol at below cost cannot continue in the short-term; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 669. To ask the Minister for Health his views on introducing a ban on below invoice cost selling of alcohol to augment minimum unit pricing in view of concerns that minimum unit pricing will not impact the pricing of premium branded alcoholic products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24619/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 670. To ask the Minister for Health his views on introducing a ban on below invoice cost selling of alcohol in view of the fact that minimum unit pricing would still legally allow for a six pack of beer to be discounted by as much as €4.50 from its invoice cost which could not happen if there was a ban on below invoice cost selling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24620/18]