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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (23 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49734/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (23 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will grant free travel passes to all children who are in receipt of a domiciliary care allowance and have to travel long distances to receive medical treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49762/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (23 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units directly built and expected to be built in each local authority area in each of the years 2015 to 2019 by social housing, affordable housing and housing by approved voluntary bodies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49652/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (23 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the anomaly whereby the maximum HAP allocation is between 23% and 47% less than the average rental price in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49673/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 15 November 2017, the meaning of his statement with regard to advance funding in the case of Cork County Council (details supplied); the details this approach; if it is available to each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49751/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: I apologise for being late. If I ask questions that have been asked previously, I ask the witnesses to forgive me. Is the HSE having difficulty with recruitment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: The future of health care committee found that some of the hospital groups were recruiting per hospital group. As a result it was a better process. I would suggest that the community health organisations consider that approach because it produces better results. For the myriad section 39 organisations that are out there, does the HSE have a methodology by which it can measure their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: I am glad it is not in that figure because it would leave the mental health section with a lot less money to do what it needs. It is also relevant when we are looking at the percentage spend on mental health. It should be included in that if that is what it is spent on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: I have a final question on the tables on the CAMHS spend. The average spent is approximately €4 per capita. In CHO 9, however, it is up to €4.28 and in CHO 8, it is down as low as €3.58. There seems to be a large anomaly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: It is table 1 - population served by community health services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: My apologies, it is just a statistic. I understood it to mean something else.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (21 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 383. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49209/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 420. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency funding will be provided to find a permanent care facility for the four adults with profound intellectual and physical disabilities currently availing of services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49376/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 421. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to the local authority to provide a long-term full-time care facility for the four adults with profound intellectual and physical disabilities currently availing of services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49377/17]

Committee on the Future of Healthcare Report: Motion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Sláintecare report having spent nine or ten months putting it together at weekly, and sometimes twice weekly, meetings. At the outset, I acknowledge the work of the chairperson of the committee, Deputy Róisín Shortall, who did an outstanding job and went far beyond the call of duty in respect of the time and effort she put in. I also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (16 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the members of an organisation (details supplied) who are public sector employees and employees of Kerry ETB and pay a pension levy are excluded from the public sector pension scheme; his plans to allow them join the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48552/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: On page 45 of the programme for Government there is a commitment to providing significant funding towards developing a national greenway network. In my county of Kerry, there is a disused railway line from Tralee to Fenit. There has been a walkway proposed for it for a number of years but there has been no progress whatsoever this year or last year. The south Kerry greenway from Glenbeigh...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 49. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Kuvan for persons with PKU will be reimbursed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48189/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 97. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortcomings in the school leavers process for special needs children transferring from a school (details supplied) to adult day services provided by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48188/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (15 Nov 2017)

John Brassil: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the appeal process for the primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48269/17]