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Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would like just one word on the cross-Border initiative. It is crazy to think we can pay for procedures in the North-----

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and we cannot carry them out ourselves here.

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Mairéad, David and Deputy Harty for preparing this Private Members' motion, which is both important and timely. I wish to discuss a number of the problems but I also wish to discuss solutions. First, I will concentrate on County Kerry. I have had meetings with the Minister in the past regarding Kerry University Hospital working in conjunction with the Bon Secours Hospital in...

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: For clarification, on what grounds have the amendments been ruled out of order?

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister was asked by Deputy Stanley to establish a scheme for remediation of homes across the State.

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: He said he is going to bring in a scheme but a Deputy has tabled an amendment looking for a scheme. Can we not discuss with the Minister what he is proposing in response?

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister has said he is going to bring in such a scheme.

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Stanley's proposal has been announced by the Minister tonight.

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am disappointed with the Minister's response to amendment No. 1. I thought the Government would have given more consideration to this because, as far as I can see, it is very well thought out and I would have thought that the Government would be in a position to support it. Ultimately, what neighbouring states do with their nuclear programmes is as important to us as it is to their own...

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I wish to the speak on these amendments because some of them are very important. It is not every day that Deputy Eamon Ryan and I agree on something. However, we do agree on the national radon control strategy and any successor to it. During the years I have been involved politics, I have come across issues relating to radon gas levels that have educated me a great deal. In terms of the...

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would like to hear whether there is some way that the Minister can encourage people and make them realise that, even though it might involve a very small outlay, they should get their homes tested. The results relating to some of the houses of which I am aware and which were tested subsequent to people dying prematurely - their deaths having been attributed to radon gas - were frightening....

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I apologise for that. I do not know the cost of testing for radon gas but what I have suggested would be a worthwhile measure. The Government encourages people to be safe in every other way. Why not focus on the radon issue because everybody could sleep safer and happier in their homes knowing their homes were under the permitted radon levels?

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Contrary to commitments in the programme for Government, we have a crazy situation in County Kerry for young, qualified psychiatric and mental health nurses. They are being told that while the HSE has full-time work for them on qualification, they cannot go to Kerry but must go instead to Dublin. We need psychiatric nurses in our county and I know of plenty opportunities where facilities...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Is this an olive branch, a courtship? It is nice.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home support for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19761/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the reason transfers for community mental health nurses are not taking place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19776/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 366. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding mental health in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20169/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Appeals (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS 2 appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19615/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 404. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for a by-law (details supplied) in regard to the reduction of fishing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20021/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20011/18]