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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Appointments (2 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will list all the current positions, where the appointment was made by his Department held by retired senior civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42659/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Rehiring (2 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list all the current positions, where the appointment was made by her Department held by retired senior civil servants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42661/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has refused to fund art assist pumps which have been proven to decrease the rate of amputation and thus in the longer run save the State Exchequer; if he will enquire into the case of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if he will direct the HSE to examine the provision of an art assist pump in this case as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the differences which exists between counties with regard to the administration of the BCG vaccine; the reason a baby born in County Roscommon cannot get vaccinated until they are in fifth or sixth class in school; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the vaccination is not available privately and that the vaccine service that is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (2 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will list all the current positions, where the appointment was made by his Department held by retired senior civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42668/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Agencies Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name, county of residence and date of appointment of each currently serving member of the National Transport Authority; the number of persons employed by the National Transport Authority; the total cost of staff remuneration and administration during 2012; the amount of fee paid annually to each serving member of the authority; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Appointments (2 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will list all the current positions, where the appointment was made by his Department held by retired senior civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42673/12]

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I wish to share time with Deputies Wallace, Daly, Boyd Barrett and Collins. I support this motion tabled by Sinn Féin. I signed my name to it because what else could one do. These people need justice and they need it before it is too late. The longer we wait, the less likely it is that they will get justice. I started reading the report produced by Justice for Magdalenes and I...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I will be supporting the referendum. It is great progress. I have read a good deal on this in the past week but regardless of what I read, I had a meeting this morning with representatives of the Children's Rights Alliance and having listened to their argument and the information I got from them, I have to say I will not be able to sum it up any better than them. As they say, if you cannot...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I will be supporting the referendum. It is great progress. I have read a good deal on this in the past week but regardless of what I read, I had a meeting this morning with representatives of the Children's Rights Alliance and having listened to their argument and the information I got from them, I have to say I will not be able to sum it up any better than them. As they say, if you cannot...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I wish to share time with Deputies Wallace, Daly, Boyd Barrett and Collins. I support this motion tabled by Sinn Féin. I signed my name to it because what else could one do. These people need justice and they need it before it is too late. The longer we wait, the less likely it is that they will get justice. I started reading the report produced by Justice for Magdalenes and I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding was allocated for three years in a row, to provide for an occupational therapist for Roscommon Child and Adult Mental Services and yet there is no OT in Roscommon; the reason, as a result a child (details supplied) has to go to County Galway for OT assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40820/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the position of disability appeals office has not been filled since the resignation of a person (details supplied) in December 2011; his views on whether there is a conflict in having the disability appeals officer subsumed into his Department, a department who's decisions could and would come to the disability appeals officer for assessment; his...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: When one applies for a job in the normal world, one is supposed to tell the truth about what one will do, how hard one will work and what one's qualifications are. In advance of the general election in an open letter to the people of Roscommon, the person who is now Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, said the following:I would like to confirm that Fine Gael undertakes, in accordance with...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I support the motion. The motion of no confidence also presents the perfect opportunity for Deputy Feighan to show that the 9,000-plus people who voted for him at the last general election did not completely waste their time.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: With respect, may I have the protection of the Chair?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: No problem - I thank you very much.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: The reality is people should tell the truth when they go before the electorate.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: That is very important. They should stand by the people - they pay their wages.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Air Accident Investigations (18 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in view of new evidence, he will ensure that the current partial reopening of the investigation into the downing of the Air France Caravelle F-BOHB plane on 11 September 1968, while en route from Corsica to Nice with Irishman Arthur O'Connor on board, is fully re-opened and any tribunal investigating the affair is...