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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: It is character building.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I agree with Ms Hoey that there is a correlation there between the amount of work a student has to do and level of success at exams. Students do have to work though. There is no doubt about that. I am from the constituency of Waterford. Everyone else is from Limerick. We do not have a university in Waterford. We have a fantastic institute of technology, but many students travel to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: If it took 12 or 18 months before a student could get the certainty of employment that the Bill is trying to achieve, is it likely that they would stay in a job for that length of time in order to get that certainty?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: If a student lives in a city with a university on their doorstep they would be able to work and live there, but if they come from a more rural area and have to travel to college there might not be the same opportunity to work where they live because they have to travel. That might make it more difficult for students to get some kind of certainty. That is the point I am trying to make.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Deputy Neville wants to come in at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Sometimes students do not qualify for the grant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: It is something we want to be mindful of.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: It would be no harm to check it out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Deputy Neville just wanted to flag it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank the witnesses for coming here today. It was a very worthwhile session. There were many comments made and we will take them all on board. All members of the committee are very much aware there is an issue. Our head is not buried in the sand. It is the one thing that has come out of the committee from all parties and none. There is no doubt about it. We are very aware of it. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 450. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate funding is being maintained in respect of the national screening service, in particular regarding the BowelScreen programme; and the measures that have been taken to improve the BowelScreen take-up rate. [21807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 430. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Sacred Heart unit in Dungarvan community hospital is closing with immediate effect with a loss of 19 beds for physiotherapy, respite and rehab services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21631/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 431. To ask the Minister for Health the step-down facilities that will be available to persons in Dungarvan and west Waterford following the closure of 19 beds in the Sacred Heart unit in Dungarvan community hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21632/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 432. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the importance of the Sacred Heart unit in Dungarvan community hospital; if his attention has been further drawn to the vital services it provides for rehab, physiotherapy and respite; if he will reverse the decision to close this unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21633/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (4 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I concur with Deputy Aylward. I live two miles from the Piltown bypass but avoid it like the plague, tending to drive the back road to Carrick-on-Suir. I am nervous of it. It is an unusual road using a two-plus-one design which makes it dangerous. When a car is overtaking, before the driver knows it, he or she will be back in a one-way scenario. I would appreciate it if the Minister...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (4 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 5 o’clock I thought - as I am sure the Minister did - that we had turned the corner and that the closure of wards was in the past. The trend of nurses leaving Ireland has become very worrying. Terms and conditions for new graduates must be improved to ensure that they stay here. The Minister mentioned that he will be attending an INMO conference tomorrow. Last week, that...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (4 May 2017)

Mary Butler: The people of Dungarvan in west Waterford were shocked by the sudden and unforeseen closure of 16 beds in the Sacred Heart unit at Dungarvan Community Hospital at the weekend. Like everyone else, I was taken aback by the announcement at the weekend that the remaining 16 beds would be closed at the unit as a result of staff shortages. The way it was announced on the eve of a bank holiday...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Response Times (3 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 44. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to assist Waterford University Hospital to improve ambulance turnaround performance in view of the fact that almost 15% of ambulance calls at the hospital were not cleared within an hour during February 2017 [20751/17]