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Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time". With the Acting Chairman, Deputy Lahart's, permission, I will share time with Deputy Catherine Murphy. I am delighted to have the opportunity to bring the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017 to the House. The Bill seeks to provide better job protection and work-life balance for parents by extending the entitlement to parental...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Maternity Hospital (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 5. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the draft framework agreement on the future ownership of the new national maternity hospital; if the new hospital will remain in public ownership; if he will bring before Dáil Éireann details of the proposal prior to the final legal agreement being signed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6588/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Maternity Hospital (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: At the end of August the Minister stated that his Department was finalising an agreement with St. Vincent's Hospital and Holles Street hospital under which the new national maternity hospital would remain in full public ownership. However, as of last month discussions on the legal framework were still ongoing. Will the Minister recommit today to ensuring that the hospital will remain in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Maternity Hospital (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: We are all conscious of the fact that when it emerged last year that the new hospital building would be in effect gifted to a private interest, there was an understandable public outcry. The Minister's commitment last August to State ownership went some way to alleviating public concerns about that. However, the language he used in his statement was and still is to some extent concerning....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Maternity Hospital (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister for that information. He mentioned a lien and certainly Nicholas Kearns said last year that a ministerial lien would be the approach that would be taken and an undertaking was given on that. If it is to be a lien, will the Minister require the approval of the Bank of Ireland to agree such a lien, given that the land and much of the property is mortgaged to Bank of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Maternity Hospital (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: It will be a lien - is the Minister confirming that?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Maternity Hospital (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister's own statement was that it would be a lien.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Remuneration (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe within which pay inequality for third level lecturers will be ended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6635/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the strategy for funding youth diversion projects as distinct from Tusla funded child services in the Ballymun area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6631/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the effectiveness of Garda mandatory roadside checkpoints in identifying and discouraging driving while under the influence of drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6636/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a limited number of gardaí have received training to carry out roadside drugs tests; the number of trained gardaí in each division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6637/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of roadside drugs tests carried out in each month since April 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6638/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the Sláintecare report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6589/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an initiative in Sweden that would allow persons to access their health records electronically by 2020 (details supplied); and his plans to allow persons to access their records in a similar fashion here. [6632/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has had their general practitioner changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6633/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Drug and Alcohol Testing (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has investigated an alternative drug testing device for roadside testing to address the fact the current device does not function at temperatures below four degrees; if his attention and the attention of An Garda Síochána was drawn to this issue when the contracts for supply of these devices was awarded; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Drug and Alcohol Testing (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of introducing roadside drug testing devices; the contracts awarded in relation to this programme; the value of each of the contracts awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6640/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 264. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided to a service (details supplied) in each year since 2004. [6629/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the strategy for funding direct contact youth work services as distinct from Tusla-funded child services in the Ballymun area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6630/18]

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: I warmly welcome the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015, which has finally arrived in this Chamber exactly six years after the steering group's report on the national substance misuse strategy was published in February 2012. Some of us here remember that very well. Since then, every effort imaginable has been used by the alcohol industry to stymie, misrepresent, confuse, delay and kill off...