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- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: I appreciate the position and will make a relatively short contribution. I will address the measures pertaining to the carer's allowance. Describing the budget as a "slap in the face" for family carers, the Carers Association, in its press statement, noted the following: The Carers Association is appalled that all the assurances they received from back bench TDs that the Carers Allowance...
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: The Minister gave a promise-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: -----to protect the most vulnerable in our society but he has gone back on this promise by hitting family carers.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: Of course, the Minister must protect them. I am talking about vulnerable people. I am a widower but because of my circumstances, I would not count myself vulnerable. That is a different story.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: I can repeat my Second Stage speech. Fine Gael clearly pointed out that such money could be available if there was an evaluation of the various schemes and the 20 groups involved. They could be rationalised, giving more efficiency. There are heavy savings to be made in administration that would yield several times the cost of the cuts the Minister is to apply to the vulnerable people-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: I have no problem with it-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: I am happy to debate with the Minister but-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: I do not believe I am.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: The proposal to cut the carer's allowance goes against the Minister's and the Government's policy to provide care in the home for as long as possible for older people and people with disabilities. This is another instance of the massive chasm between Government policy and Government practice. In one area there is a policy but this is a practice that goes against that policy. This gap has...
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: You are making up for it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Social Welfare Bill. The disastrous economic situation in which we find ourselves is a result of the reckless policies of Fianna Fáil in government over the past ten years. We now have approximately 450,000 people out of work and approximately 100,000 people have emigrated. Now, in the budget the most vulnerable members of our...
- Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: It should not have happened.
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (2 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has revised the target for child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric beds down from 100 beds as recommended in A Vision for Change to 80 beds; the basis of this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45779/10]
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (2 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding required to increase the child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric bed capacity to 80 beds; if funding has been committed for the development of these beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45780/10]
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (2 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding required to increase the child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric bed capacity to 100 beds; if funding has been committed for the development of these beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45781/10]
- Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: Farce.
- Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2010: First Stage (1 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to add the designation of Psychotherapist and Counsellor Profession under the Act and to provide for connected matters.
- Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2010: First Stage (1 Dec 2010)
Dan Neville: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (30 Nov 2010)
Dan Neville: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of child and adolescent inpatient beds recommended by A Vision for Change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45017/10]
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (30 Nov 2010)
Dan Neville: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of psychiatric adult inpatient beds recommended in A Vision for Change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45020/10]