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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: 2198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has considered allowing local authorities to add additional rooms to local authority houses under their remit on the grounds of overcrowding only and where no alternative accommodation is available or suitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27433/17]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (15 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: This meeting has been convened for the purpose of consideration by the select committee of the Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016 which was referred to it by order of the Dáil on 6 April 2017. Apologies have been received from Deputy Niall Collins. I welcome the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, and her officials. I thank her for...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (15 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: The Minister has stated she will table an amendment to this section on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (15 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: I believe amendments will be made to sections 2, 3 and 12.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (15 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: On a personal note, in a former life I worked in the jewellery business for ten years. My sister is a jeweller. The Assay Office plays such an important role in the life of the jewellery business. I have considered the Bill in detail and spoken to members of Retail Jewellers of Ireland, all of whom are very happy with the Bill which is essential. There are gold and silver and different...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (15 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: Yes. It is very important, when one buys a piece of jewellery, that a hallmark be on it. If it is nine-carat gold, the stamp reads "375". It is only when one works in the business one realises how important it is to be able to authenticate the article being bought or sold.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (15 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank the Tánaiste and her officials for attending. I remind members that as Report Stage may be ordered at short notice, it is recommended that amendments, if any, be submitted to the Bills Office as soon as possible.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (15 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016 and made no amendments thereto.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance (1 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: 115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the waiting list for domiciliary care allowance applicants is 14 weeks or more; his plans to improve this waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26337/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (1 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite surgery for a person (details supplied) at Tallaght hospital. [26275/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (1 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite surgery for a person (details supplied) at university hospital Waterford. [26276/17]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Thankfully we are all living longer and most of us will live independently for the rest of our lives. Fewer than 5% of all the elderly require care late on in life and all parties agree that every effort should be made to facilitate this. The nursing homes support scheme, the fair deal scheme, was introduced in 2009 and provides financial support towards the cost of long-term nursing home...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (31 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I am also very concerned about the situation at the Camphill community at Ballytobin, near Callan, County Kilkenny. I thank my colleague, Deputy Bobby Aylward, for giving me an opportunity to speak about the matter. As he said, this unique community which is located in a wonderful non-medical environment provides community-based services for residents with challenging behaviours who are in...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (31 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 210. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that some persons that receive the HPV Gardasil vaccine are reporting serious side effects; his further views on the number of girls withdrawing from the vaccine programme; and if he will commission a study into these reported cases [26109/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 448. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a cataract operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25537/17]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Mary Butler: The collapse of the longest running criminal trial in history, involving charges against the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, represents a damning indictment of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. Today, as chair of the Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, I have written to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement asking that he appear before the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (25 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the situation regarding a residential home (details supplied) as a result of issues identified relating to safeguarding and governance by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25228/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (25 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the situation regarding the 19 adults resident at a residential home (details supplied) as a result of an official closure notice with a two-week stay issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (25 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 192. To ask the Minister for Health if he will obtain an extension on the closure order to allow staff of an organisation (details supplied) sufficient time to ensure all requirements are met as a result of issues identified relating to safeguarding and governance by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25230/17]