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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I remind members, visitors and those in the Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off or in aeroplane mode for the duration of this meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when on silent mode. I welcome Mr. Neil McDonnell, chief executive of the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, ISME, and Mr. John Barry of the management support service of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Mr. McDonnell. I now invite Ms McElwee to make her presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank the witness for her presentation. I now ask Mr. Talbot to make his presentation to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I now invite questions from the members. Who would like to go first?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Deputy Niall Collins's first question was on the level of engagement with Deputy David Cullinane and the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: If I may interject, there is a vote in the Seanad at the moment. We will continue. I call Mr. Talbot. Would he like to hold on until Senator Reilly comes back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Okay. Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Does Deputy Collins wish to come back in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Thank you all for coming before the committee to engage with us in what has been an informative session. We will have many witnesses and guests coming before the committee in the coming months.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to review legislation relating to elder abuse, specifically from a psychological and financial point of view. Has this review commenced and when can we expect to see a report on it?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied) under the summer works scheme 2016 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4027/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: 453. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Research Board review has completed its work regarding the need to regulate the home care services sector, that is, the way in which home care services are funded and regulated in comparable jurisdictions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3778/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the condition juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or more specifically polyarthritis, is not included on the list of conditions covered by the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3984/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: 535. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the National Treatment Purchase Fund will resume arranging the provision of hospital treatment to persons on waiting lists; and the procedure whereby persons that have been waiting a long time for treatment will be able to apply to the fund. [4047/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (31 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: 741. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason it is taking up to eight months for persons to have their cases scheduled for hearings under the Equality and Redundancy Acts by the Workplace Relations Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3847/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: 428. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason a person (details supplied) who secured fulltime employment at University Hospital Waterford in early December 2016 is still waiting for a personal identification number from Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. [2663/17]
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I have not been in the Chamber for a long time as I was elected at the end of February 2016. However, even I know that a Private Members' motion will not change the mind of the Minister. It will certainly raise awareness, which is what I am doing today, along with other Deputies. It may influence the Government. I brought a Private Members' motion through the House in regard to dementia...
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I ask the Minister of State not to interrupt me. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Corcoran Kennedy, for her answer. My petition today does not concern waiting lists, to which the reply referred. Rather, it refers to 24-7 cardiology cover and the implementation of the Higgins report which clearly states, on page 87, that Waterford Regional Hospital will continue to provide cardiology...
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Yet the Minister of State chose to attack me.