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Good Friday Agreement: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There has been a huge change in the political climate since the pre-Good Friday Agreement era. Every once in a while, people should pause and recall the time when the conflict in and militarisation of the Six Counties affected all aspects of life on this island. They should also recall how, before the Agreement, it was virtually impossible to contemplate an era of peace in which British...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (15 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Would Ms Faughnan consider engaging in a sting operation, such as what Deputy Brendan Ryan stated, and visiting some landlords to see what they are suggesting to people? The fraud level, at 2.4%, is low; clients may not be ripping off the Department, but there is fraud in the sense that the documentation landlords and tenants are signing does not mention a top-up payment. I suggest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (15 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In some cases, they do not have access arrangements. They must go to court to get them. If a person is in a one-bedroom flat, he or she cannot get larger accommodation to accommodate his or her children. The person has gone to court because he or she wants to play a role, yet is not allowed to have his or her children in a single-bedroom flat, particularly if the case is one of the many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (15 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the fact that new rental limits will be announced in June. I hope that people see sense, particularly in my area. I presume the overall rent supplement budget or envelope within the Department cannot be breached if new rental limits are accepted. If the cap goes up in one area, does it go down in another area? How will the new rental limits be estimated within the Department or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (15 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I, along with other committee members, have raised the top-up or under-the-counter payments with the Minister on several occasions. The answer I usually get is that the Department has no record of this being a wide-scale practice. It might not have records of it because the clients paying this top-up payment do not want to come forward as they are afraid of losing an apartment or a house...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (15 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the development of the LUAS cross city including an estimated time of completion, final cost; the measures planned to deal with congestion caused by construction work during the project. [22900/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (15 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to conduct a review of tourism policy; the specific areas the review will focus on; if he will outline its key aims and objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22853/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (15 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the pilot youth guarantee scheme will commence in Ballymun, Dublin; the resources that have been allocated to this scheme; the length of time this scheme will run for; the number of young persons who will benefit from this scheme; the details of the consultation that have taken place with residents in relation to this; and if she will make a...

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Nor in Fianna Fáil's motion, for that matter.

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am just telling the Deputy - it is not mentioned in his party's motion.

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Fianna Fáil should have included it in its own motion. It should not wait for us.

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Deputy should get back into his bubble.

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Deputy is stuck in 1998.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The situation with the banking crisis is the same.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the recent pharmacoeconomics evaluation of pirfenidone conducted by the National Centre for Pharmaceeconomics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22754/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of treating a patient with prifenidone when they are suffering with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; the number of persons who suffer from this condition within this jurisdiction; the method by which the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics assess if a treatment is cost effective; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22755/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in the Health Service Executive negotiations with the manufacturers of pirfenidione, Esbriet; and the date on which these negotiations will conclude [22756/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 115. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that will be made available to existing children’s hospitals, including Crumlin, in view of the further delay in the delivery of the National Children’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22578/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 630. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to end the discriminatory practices in salary scales for graduate nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22416/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (14 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to reverse the decision to close the Emergency Department at Loughlinstown Hospital, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22579/13]