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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Irish Water's plan has no storage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: The point was to keep a reserve to deal with an interrupted supply. The security of supply in Garryhinch - the water is there and it can be pumped - was a huge benefit, and that was the point of Garryhinch. I know it is now not going to happen, but the economic model or cost-benefit analysis did not include the social benefits, the employment benefits, the huge potential of the whole plan....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (15 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding salmon farms here; if there are any plans for the future regulation of the industry and the current position of sea lice control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7482/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (9 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh agus cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I agree with a lot of what everybody has said and I particularly welcome the Minister's comments. The frictionless Border is a real economic Border, if it is there at all. The point is that if there is any tariff, no matter what that might be or whether it is imposed electronically or physically, it is still a...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister spoke of holding the HSE and its director general to account. Who will audit those standards the Minister rightly talks about? Will he have external auditors or will the HSE be auditing itself? The buck ultimately stops with the head of the HSE. What is the term of office of the HSE director general? Does the Minister have the power to fire him or her? If he does not, will...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: A man dies in a Dublin hospital. He arrives in an ambulance totally dishevelled and in serious pain. His family accompany him. When they go into the accident and emergency department, the doctor in despair asks why they let this man fall into this condition, why he has arrived like this and why they did not look after him in their home. The doctor did not realise that the patient was...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Hear, hear.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I would like to raise my concerns about this arrangement. Obviously, I welcome that this debate is commencing and the length of the time allocated for it is fine, but backbenchers like myself will be denied the right to contribute to it because there is no time provided for Fine Gael Members to contribute. Certainly there is time provided for the Minister, and that is right and proper, but...

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I did not interrupt anybody. I know the Deputy might not like what I am saying. The right of a backbencher to speak on a matter of utmost national importance is recognised by the committee organising the business of this House and it must allow me and people like me to speak in this important debate.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: My proposal is that the debate would commence earlier than 9.30 a.m., whether it be 8.30 a.m or 8 a.m., I do not mind, that it would continue until every Member of the House who wishes to speak on this biggest scandal about hospital waiting lists would speak, and that we would have that right. That is what we are elected to do, that is what I am looking for and that is what my constituents...

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is correct.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am not suggesting that would be the case.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will repeat what I said. Notwithstanding the wisdom of the Ceann Comhairle's comments, the Labour Party, the Anti-Austerity Alliance, the Independents 4 Change, the Social Democrats and the Green Party are all smaller parties. That is a fact. Why can I as a Member of Fine Gael not speak for five minutes like any Member of the other parties? The point is-----

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: My proposal is that we would ask, if it would be helpful-----

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not have a problem with that, or at 8 a.m. I have no problem with that. I propose that.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Warmer Homes Scheme Funding (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 248. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money set aside by the Government for the warmer homes scheme for 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6144/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Centres (8 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving test centres here by location; the cost of running each such centre for each of the past three years, including staff costs, full-time and part-time staff; the owners of the property used and the rent paid; the number of driver testers, by location and if full- or part-time; the total metre-squared area of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the changes the Minister has made. I welcome the proposals on scoliosis. I wait to hear his proposals on the waiting list at Cork University Hospital. I wait to hear his proposals on eye operations, such as for cataracts. I know of a lady aged 90 who is being told she must wait two years before she will get her operation. That is unforgivable and is not acceptable. I accept...