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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I welcome it as an important step in the State's progress towards ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It bears some relation to the earlier legislation offered in this area and drafted by Mr. Dermot Ahern, the then Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. That Bill was based,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (11 Dec 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider making the Gateway scheme accessible to those on a disability payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53164/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Education and Training Scheme Expenditure (11 Dec 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 158. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the process adopted that resulted in Early Childhood Ireland and Border Counties Childcare Network being awarded €900,000 to train 630 people working in the child care sector; if the process adopted an open tendering process and, if not, the reason for same; if the payment structure was agreed-outcome based, and, if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Dec 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 173. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway may expect to receive an appointment for her awaited medical procedure, considering she was placed on a waiting list in April 2012. [53169/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency Deposits (28 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost of carrying on the existing cash balances held by the National Treasury Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51166/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Recruitment (26 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the recruitment of junior diplomats to his Department, the criteria that were applied in the selection of the type of psychometric tests used at stage one of the recruitment process; if the decision to depart from traditional testing methods, that is, verbal, numeral reasoning and job simulation, in favour of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Functions (26 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 486. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the contingency plans his Department has to continue to deliver essential services in the event of a local authority becoming insolvent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50718/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when printed matter is purchased and downloaded via the Internet it is considered to be a service within the meaning of electronically supplied services in the Fourth Schedule to the VAT Act, 1972 (as amended); in view of the fact that this has the effect of discouraging the use of e-books by schools in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weight of Schoolbags (19 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the issue of the weight of children's schoolbags; the risk they may pose to the health of children; the action he is taking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48887/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weight of Schoolbags (19 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the responsibility his Department has for addressing the issue of the weight of children's schoolbags and the potential risk to their health; the actions his Department has taken to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48888/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 627. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) may expect to receive an appointment for surgery in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48799/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (14 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 85. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the numbers of persons broken down by payment and by year, in September of each year from 2008 to 2013 inclusive, in receipt in each of the following payments, illness benefit, disability allowance, the blind pension, injury benefit, disablement benefit, invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48586/13]

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: Here again we find a Bill which contains measures that will drive another wedge between the Government and the citizen. It is another sundering of the social contract that exists between citizens and the State and the intergenerational relationship. This is a predictable and deliberate result of the Government's engagement in the politics of division. It has encouraged different groups...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (12 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following works carried out by the Office of Public Works to a bridge near a person's land (details supplied) in County Galway, his plans to rectify the drainage issues causing flooding to this persons property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47920/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Appeals (12 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Galway may expect a decision on their farm assist payment appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48183/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Institutes of Technology Issues (7 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I thank the Minister.

Topical Issue Debate: Institutes of Technology Issues (7 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: In 2010, a number of lecturers within Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT, became concerned about the treatment of allegations and instances of plagiarism and cheating within the institute. These concerns have been expressed in the local and national press. In 2011, an investigation was launched following a series of revelations in the Galway City Tribune about plagiarism at GMIT and...

Topical Issue Debate: Institutes of Technology Issues (7 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I acknowledge the fact that the Minister made himself available today for this query. It is an important issue that the Minister has commented on. We are talking about 20 special needs assistants, 700 medical cards, a number of school extensions or 20 Garda cars. Some €400,000 has been spent investigating what I can only describe as an unacceptable allegation at GMIT. I welcome the...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I have a tough act to follow. Of course it is not easy to take money from children. Of course it is not easy to take money from child benefit. It is very difficult to take money from elderly people. It is very difficult when elderly people have to have their phones cut off. It is not easy to take money from those people who cannot protect themselves. Those dangerous young people put up...