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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (5 Mar 2019)

Mary Butler: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in regard to opening an Educate Together primary school in Dungarvan, County Waterford; if the location is part of his commitment in the reconfiguration process; the timescale envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10254/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (5 Mar 2019)

Mary Butler: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 26 February 2019, the timeframe for the provision of an Educate Together primary school in Dungarvan, County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10853/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (5 Mar 2019)

Mary Butler: 430. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a connection to the fibre optic network in an area will be arranged for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10720/19]

Independent Radio Stations: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: Ireland is a nation of radio listeners with more than 3 million people tuning in to their local stations every day to catch up on current affairs, entertainment, local news, sports and music. However, despite their popularity, local and regional radio stations have seen their revenue decline substantially over the past ten years. My local radio station, Waterford Local Radio, WLR, has an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (27 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: 139. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the octuvite lutein macushield tablet is no longer available under the general medical services scheme for persons over 60 years of age; his plans to reinstate the tablets onto the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9915/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Seniors Alert Scheme (27 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: 205. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the plans he has put in place in the event of a hard Brexit in relation to the senior alert scheme and the provision of panic buttons to ensure that there will be an adequate supply of this equipment for the elderly and vulnerable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9881/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: The feasibility study and the site selection have been completed for the second permanent cath lab at University Hospital Waterford, with agreement from the South/South West hospital group, the general manager, senior clinicians, consultant cardiologists and politicians at a meeting yesterday. A senior member of the HSE's estates project management team also attended the meeting and informed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (26 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide an Educate Together primary school in Dungarvan, County Waterford; the timeframe for this proposal; the proposed location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9682/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: With Brexit looming in 36 days, it may have many difficult consequences for all of us in this country. It has recently been brought to my attention that the supply of pendants for the senior alert scheme, worn by elderly people living alone or in rural areas, may be impacted because they are sourced in the UK. If a person applies for one of these pendants, he or she will currently get it...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: The Government's and the Minister's failings in health are many and well documented. Not voting for this motion does not for one moment mean an endorsement of the Government's record on health. Its handling of the children's hospital and CervicalCheck issues has been completely inadequate. Similarly, the recent nurses' strike should not have been allowed to develop as it did. However,...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: Is this a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health or, judging by the opening statements, a motion of no confidence in Fianna Fáil?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: This is typical Sinn Féin politics, this from the same party that has ensured that the only Northern Ireland voice in Westminster is that of the DUP; this from a party that will abstain from its seats in Westminster yet still take the Queen's shilling; this from the party that collapsed the Assembly in Belfast, leaving Northern Ireland at the mercy of Westminster.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: Sinn Féin would have us force the country into a general election. The tabling of this motion is as clear an example as any that Sinn Féin as a party does not understand what the national interest is-----

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: -----and is utterly unfit for Government. The hallmark of Sinn Féin is the politics of turmoil and chaos, and so it continues.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: The Government has made great hay out of the announcement to amend the fair deal legislation to make it fairer for farming families but has done little to progress the Bill to make it a reality. When can we expect to see the heads of the Bill? It will take a significant amount of time to pass the legislation. Due to the wait for the Bill there are many farm families, especially the older...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Staff (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: 141. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 372 of 29 January 2019, the rota of consultant presence for the emergency department on Saturdays and Sundays at University Hospital Waterford, UHW, from January to December 2018. [8552/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Staff (20 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: 143. To ask the Minister for Health if consultant cardiologists provided consultant presence on Saturdays and Sundays in the emergency department at Univeristy Hospital Waterford, UHW, from January to December 2018. [8555/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: 174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the cost overrun in relation to the national children’s hospital; the capital projects which will be deferred as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8071/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: 365. To ask the Minister for Health when additional funding will be made available to task forces through an emerging needs fund; his strategy in terms of targeting those resources in favour of local needs identified by task forces in line with their key role in implementing the national drugs strategy; the way in which funding will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (19 Feb 2019)

Mary Butler: 544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the sports capital grants for 2019 to be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7925/19]