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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Cappagh hospital is in my constituency but as the Minister rightly says, it is a national hospital. My colleagues, Deputies Cahill and Brendan Smith, have been plaguing both the Minister and the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler and Rabbitte. We have had extensive visits from Ministers. The Taoiseach himself has been out, as has the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and many others. It is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I very much welcome the confirmation that the project has been approved by the HSE board. There is great goodwill here. Sometimes we need to just keep pushing it through the bureaucracy. There is no better man than the Minister to do that. It affects people in my constituency but it is a national resource. There is great energy and effort here and it will go a long way to meeting the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 9. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on plans to expand the provision of services at Cappagh hospital. [49073/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Can the Minister update the House on the plans to expand the provision of services at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh, in my constituency?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [47661/23]

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I will be sharing my time with Deputy Flaherty. We will take seven and four minutes, respectively. Deputy Flaherty can take over whenever I run out of issues for the Minister. I want to first deal with the Road Traffic Act, as it is now, having been passed and signed by the President over the summer. It contains many initiatives and measures to improve the safety of people on our roads...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I raise with the Tánaiste the issue of the public counter of the Probate Office having been closed since Covid. As he is aware, the death of a family member and the processing of probate can be a difficult experience for many families. It is not acceptable that a public counter is not available. Delays are being created because people have to put documents into a drop box and wait for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Both questions relate to the carer's allowance and means-testing. I am dealing with a huge number of reviews for the carer's allowance and they are being done in an incredibly intrusive way, with people being asked to submit bank statements. Instead of it being a qualification just on income grounds, they are being asked to produce bank statements, which are being returned with transactions...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I think Questions Nos. 60 to 62, inclusive, relate to the same issue. The Minister has discussed it in detail in the context of the straw man and the Green Paper, so I am happy to allow colleagues to use the time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: That is just because the Minister was present.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizens Information Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: One CIB, eight CIS and 90 CICs have closed - all the acronyms would make one's head hurt. In essence one of the difficulties with the system is that the Minister cannot direct them because they are separate companies, but it was not any one of those companies that decided this, it was us. It was the Oireachtas that decided to have independent companies. The community and voluntary sector...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizens Information Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I join the Minister in encouraging people to come forward. From speaking to many volunteers I know it is a very rewarding service. As we in this House all know, to be able to impart information to people, which they otherwise would not be aware of, is a very rewarding experience. It certainly is for me any time I am in my clinic. There is, however, more that can be done. This issue...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizens Information Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Cahill. I think this is the first opportunity I have had to congratulate the Minister on the negotiations in regard to the budget. For the second year in a row, the combination of once-off payments and increases in core rates has led the ESRI to state that these changes have kept people ahead of inflation. Given international rates of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Probation and Welfare Service (19 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I acknowledge that the Minister, Deputy McEntee, is unable to take this issue but I thank the Minister of State for being here to facilitate the matter being raised. Over several months I have raised, by way of parliamentary question, the issue of historical sexual abuse in the Probation Service. In May, in a written reply from the Minister, she confirmed that two allegations of child...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Probation and Welfare Service (19 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the Minister of State's putting those points on the record. I join him in encouraging anybody who was the victim of sexual abuse, in a historical context or otherwise, in the Probation Service to come forward. A probation officer has a sense of huge trust. The reports which came to me involved not the person themselves being the subject of probation but actually a family member....

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Deputy Farrell and I thank him for his assistance in temporarily taking the Chair while I needed to speak as well.

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Deputy. I think that by the end of the debate, we will have named every sports club in Ireland.

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I invite Deputy Gannon to continue the trend.

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Every club deserves a mention. That is the least we can do in here.