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Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that availed of the treatment abroad scheme in 2018, by county in tabular form; the cost involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 521. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive capital plan for 2019 will be published; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26827/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 672. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discretionary road grants provided through Transport Infrastructure Ireland to individual local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26636/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: The committee is meeting to continue its engagements on the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018. I welcome Ms Sinead Farrell and Mr. Darragh Walshe from the Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society, Dr. Olive McCarthy and Ms Bridget Carroll from the Centre for Co-Operative Studies at UCC and Mr. Brendan Murtagh and Ms Caitriona Allis from the Association of Chartered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Walshe. I call Ms Bridget Carroll.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Ms Carroll. I invite Mr. Murtagh to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Murtagh. He stated: "The requirement for an annual return is substantially undermined if the financial statements attaching to the annual return are non-standard". Will he explain that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Murtagh for the clarification. I call Senator Mac Lochlainn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: Perhaps we could tease out this issue a little further. Dr. McCarthy said earlier that on balance the Centre for Co-operative Studies supports the amendment to reduce the number of members required to establish a co-operative to three but it has some reservations in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I have one final question, to which I ask Ms Carroll and Mr. Murtagh to respond. The proposed amendment to section 14 of the principal Act, which deals with audits, recommends retention of the requirement for annual returns and audited accounts while allowing specific societies to apply for an audit exemption under certain conditions, which might include an asset size turnover threshold, as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: Are there any further questions? Would anyone like to make any final comment? As our guests are aware, we are conducting legislative scrutiny of the Bill and the onus is on us to listen to what they all have to say. We will listen to the officials from the Department next. The committee will then compile a report outlining whether it supports the Bill. We must stand back and look at it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: As there are no further comments, I thank our guests for attending and for their input. I also thank them for their submissions. They have been very useful. I propose that we suspend briefly in order to allow the departmental officials to take their seats. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: We resume scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018. I welcome from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Mr. Gary Martin, Ms Theodora Corcoran, Mr. Tommy Murray and Ms Caroline Kiernan. Apologies have been received from Ms Breda Power, assistant secretary with responsibility for the Department's commerce, consumer and competition division. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Martin for his presentation. I call Senator Humphreys.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: Everyone accepts there are clear benefits to having audited accounts for openness and transparency. We seem to have a general consensus that the Department is supportive of introducing audit exemptions, as are the witnesses. It is to be hoped some common ground can be found on this matter. On the reduction of members required for registering a co-op from seven to three, all co-operatives...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank our guests for their time and for their engagement with the committee. Our next meeting is scheduled for 9 July.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank my colleague, Deputy Donnelly, for doing so much work on maternity services and on bringing this issue to the fore. The conversation in respect of it has to happen. As a mother of three, I am delighted to be able to discuss this issue. The provision of accessible, safe and high-quality maternity services to all mothers and babies, regardless of where they live, must be a core...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: My question is directed to the Minister for Health. I raise the health support workers strike planned for tomorrow from a different angle. What contingencies have been put in place in the event that the strike goes ahead? We hear about the fantastic work these health workers do on a daily basis. They are the cogs that turn the wheels in the HSE day in and day out. Understandably,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the determination of a child is kept back to repeat a year in primary school is made; the definition of exceptional circumstances as per a circular (details supplied); if the all round education of the child including emotional and social learning and not just academia is taken into account in making such a determination; if a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Data (19 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under 21 years of age who have access to the FreeStyle Libre device under the long-term illness scheme; the number of persons over 21 years of age who now have access to the FreeStyle Libre device under the long-term illness scheme in tabular form by CHO and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25633/19]