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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for a colonoscopy in the Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; the number of persons on the waiting list over 1 year and 2 years respectively; if the hospital has an adequate number of gastroenterologists to perform such procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18883/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a dedicated respiratory doctor or consultant in the Lourdes hospital in Drogheda that specialises in COPD; his plans for 2017 in this area for the Lourdes hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18885/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages that were applied for and approved in counties Louth and Meath in each of the years 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18903/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Waiting Lists (13 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 253. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 28 March 2017, if he will provide further details (details supplied). [18936/17]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree that it is a good Bill. It provides for the appointment of a planning regulator, which makes a great deal of sense. The weakness is not so much that the Minister has too much power but that councillors and elected members have too much power in the planning process, particularly regarding planning recommendations. I appreciate the difference between the powers of elected members in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree with much of the debate here. What the Minister is saying finds an echo in my experience as well since I was a councillor for many years. Many years ago, we were doing a new development plan. As an elected member, I was awaiting the outcome of what the proposed development plan would be. I got a phone call from a developer in Drogheda who said he wanted to see me. I decided to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Maybe not all of them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: On the point the Minister just made, it is not just since the collapse of the economy that we have had houses built poorly in Drogheda. I raised one as an issue last week, where a builder built a house for a local authority in which there is no damp-proof course. The person who now occupies it has been told that, despite whatever remedial works have been carried out, the house may have to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: And paid for work they did not do. It is a very fundamental structural issue.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the developments to date on the proposed new school at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17733/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (11 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a query regarding a person and conditions of appointment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17750/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (11 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available for persons with intellectual disabilities under 18 years of age and over 18 years of age, respectively, by location, county and organisation or service provider for each of the past three years. [18189/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (11 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if respite beds are designated for each age cohort or otherwise used by rotation; and, if so, the rotation timetable. [18190/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (11 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons seeking respite by location and county for each of the past three years; if such respite was actually availed of; if not, the reason therefor; the number of persons who have yet to be offered such respite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18191/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the witnesses. I have met several of them before. I think Mr. Fitzpatrick was once my local county manager or assistant county manager. I welcome their comments, particularly what Ms Ní Fhloinn. If I buy a property that is built by a member of Mr. Fitzpatrick’s association I presume that what I am getting is as permitted. Instead of outsourcing the responsibility to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I did not get an answer to my question on the policing of the organisation of builders. I asked whether members of the association had ever been kicked out of the association. How does the CIF regulate members?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: The CIF is a member of the Irish Home Builders Association and Mr. Fitzpatrick speaks for his members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: He did not answer the question originally. I want to hold him to account.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: In what year did that happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is a very important question. I agree with everything I have heard but the problem for us is whether we can believe what the witnesses say about building in this country. It is critical that they police their membership and that being a member of the association gives credibility. It does not make sense, from a regulatory perspective, that they have only ever kicked out one member.