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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (5 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will initiate a full public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19639/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (5 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with a person (details supplied) to discuss the issue of guidance counsellors in post-primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19116/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal Charges (5 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 278. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that users of the tag on the bag system of waste management who are not weekly users will not be required to pay a service charge along with the tag lift charge under new regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19781/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (5 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 276. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the efficiency of local government, including its financial and organisational remit, and best practice in other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19777/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (5 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 449. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19119/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (5 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 633. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is willing to release the funding necessary to expedite the R150 Laytown to Bettystown spine road project due to the very large number of young children in educational campuses in the area and the significant safety concerns that continue due to not having this spine road in place (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (5 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 645. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the access allowed by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to private service providers to ducting along the M1, M2 and M3 motorways for the provision of broadband and telecommunications services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19649/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Establishment (5 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 660. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will establish a local enterprise office in Drogheda, County Louth, following the recent referendum decision in the United Kingdom (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19131/16]

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (Resumed) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: There is a plan and a Government. I understand the Minister for Health will make an announcement on the North-South issue on Monday. I will very much welcome it when it happens. Living as I do in a Border county, I am very much aware, like the previous speaker, of the issues, North and South, and the need for greater economic and political co-operation and co-operation on health,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. I welcome the Minister's initiative on housing and the question of HAP. I know that the averages have increased by €120 per month for a family with three children, which is significant and welcome. Part of the complaints we are getting as a result of the release of that information into the public domain is that some landlords still refuse to accept people on HAP or rent...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: With respect, I am happy to have my questions stand, if the Chairperson does not mind, please.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I would be happy to get answers to them, if she does not mind.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: To be very clear to the Chairperson, as a member of this committee and having listened to debate on the housing assistance payment, I believe all my questions are perfectly fair and reasonable to ask-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: -----and I would like to have them answered, if she does not mind.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Of course.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree with my colleague on the environment issues. I regret very much that it is not staying with the Department because in my mind when people see the Custom House the first word that came into their heads is “environment”. I am sorry that will not be the case from now on. Housing is obviously extremely important as well, but I regret that this is happening. On the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have a question which relates to a combination of the issues involved. Local government is very inefficient. No matter what the State, the Government or the Oireachtas does, there is never enough money to do the job and it is never done. Local authorities' roads, housing and infrastructure are in a bad mess - notwithstanding the income from the local property tax. People are supposed to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am not up to date on the procedures relating to An Bord Pleanála. I do not know if they have changed. One might have a very long hearing that could, perhaps, go on for weeks. The inspector recommends that planning be given or refused and then the board overturns the planner's decision. There is no transparency about the method of overturning that decision. Members of the board of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (29 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 57. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the increasing income requirement for retirees living here; the further reason for the change from stamp 3 to stamp 0 for Americans retiring to Ireland; if she will make an exception for American nationals looking to retire here, acknowledging the historic and important relationship between American and Ireland; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (29 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list spinal cord injuries as long-term illnesses with an automatic entitlement to a medical card in view of representation from the Spinal Injuries Ireland panel. [18579/16]