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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Air Quality (24 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 579. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the details of any additional funding being provided to the Environmental Protection Agency to enable it to measure and monitor air emissions and pollutants in order to ensure Ireland meets commitments set out in the revised Gothenburg protocol which a new directive (details supplied) incorporates; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Air Quality (24 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 580. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will request a baseline air quality study to be carried out in Dublin city before the Poolbeg incinerator is fully operational in view of the fact the initial study was completed in 2005 and therefore may not be an accurate baseline measure for future air quality monitoring; if the operators of the incinerator...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Digital Strategy (24 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 581. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the operation of the e-benefit programme; the total funding provided each year since 2008 by county; the sum allocated to each group per year; the new selection criteria for the 2017 digital skills for citizens grant scheme; the number of successful and unsuccessful applications, by county, in 2017;...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Social Democrats strongly supports this important Bill. Well done to Deputy Thomas Pringle and his colleagues for bringing it forward. It is important to note the outstanding work being done by various NGOs working in this field and their constant provision of research evidence and the lobbying of Members to act in this area. In many ways, they put it up to us to live up to our...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste is repeating the inaccuracy.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste is wrong.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste is compounding the error now.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Earlier this month, the Master of the High Court criticised the Government for failing to protect people who are facing the repossession of their homes. He said that under EU consumer law, our courts are required to examine each mortgage contract, regardless of whether the defendant is in court, to ascertain whether its terms are unfair. His claim is that county registrars, as agents of the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste's response is just not good enough. I asked her a specific question about Mr. Honohan's criticisms and her potentially inaccurate response to a parliamentary question I tabled on Tuesday. I would expect that the veracity of a reply to a parliamentary question on an issue like this would have been checked before it was issued. Under the European Court of Justice ruling,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the proposed breakdown of the tenure type, social mix and proposals for affordable housing and starter homes in a mixed tenure development in Dublin (details supplied); if his Department has issued guidelines to local authorities for the tenure and social mix for developments of this kind; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sale of State Assets (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 233. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the sale of an asset (details supplied) further to recent media reports; if he has satisfied himself with the guiding price for the sale; if other options were considered beyond the sale of the asset in order that it can be put to an alternative public use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2484/17]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: I remind everybody in the room to ensure that their mobile phones are either turned off or on airplane mode as they interfere with the recording system. I welcome everyone watching these proceedings that are being relayed live and I welcome the people who are seated in the public Gallery. I welcome the representatives of the Private Hospitals Association to the meeting. The association...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for those submissions. I advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and they continue to so do, they are entitled thereafter only to a...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: There is a wide range of questions there for the witnesses to address.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: I want to clarify the role of the association. Is Mr. Nugent saying the data does not exist or has not been collected, or is he saying that he does not have access to it this morning?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Will Mr. Nugent explain the role of the association for clarification? Is it just an umbrella group or lobby group?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Is that on a hospital basis-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: -----or across the sector? Is that what the witness is saying? Is it a case that when agreements are reached on procuring a certain level of service, the negotiation takes place with the HSE on an individual hospital basis rather than the group or the sector?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Does Deputy Brassil want to come in on this specific point?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, I have the Deputy here.