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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Clearly, any member here is free to meet whoever they wish outside, but we ask you to be mindful that you are not being used as a conduit for different lobby groups to put pressure on you to feed their views back into the committee. I ask you to be conscious of that. Obviously people will meet whoever they wish, but we have a very clear remit with regard to the bigger picture, being...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: It is clear that we need a structured means of stakeholder consultation. I know the clerk has expertise in that area. I am asking him to bring proposals to the committee on how we might go about doing that. Initially, if members receive a request for a meeting from a particular group, this should be referred to the secretariat. We need to consider how we can do that in a structured way.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Members will see in their packs a document from the ESRI entitled Challenges in Achieving Universal Healthcare in Ireland, which would be useful for members to read before the groups come before us.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Deputy Daly for his contribution. I suggest we go into private session to discuss our meeting times. I am also keen to have a discussion on the budget available for research work. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 16 June 2016, to address the question in respect of publishing or otherwise setting out the legal advice available to his Department in respect of repealing section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000. [17704/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Graduate Medicine Programme Fees (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby banks are refusing to make student finance available to those wishing to study graduate entry medicine, as the remuneration newly qualified doctors are in receipt of is insufficient to cover the cost of the repayment of this debt; if he will consider introducing a student loan scheme for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 228. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby the student debt burden on those qualifying from graduate entry medicine is so great that many are being forced to emigrate to secure remuneration that will allow them to make repayments, and that many of these newly qualified doctors cannot afford the Irish Medical Organisation registration fee; if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (22 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 212. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 22 March 2016, if he will provide an update on the status of the development of specific services for persons suffering from Huntington's Disease; his plans to develop a specified care pathway for persons suffering from this illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17353/16]

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We all accept that many of the problems associated with refuse collection originated with the decision to privatise this service. Refuse collection is such a fundamental public service that it does not lend itself to privatisation. While the service run by local authorities was not entirely trouble free it was much less troublesome than the privatised service has become. There is no doubt...

Death of Jo Cox, MP: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Everybody in this country, both within this House and outside, was shocked to the core last Thursday afternoon when we heard of the appalling and senseless death of Jo Cox. By all accounts she was a parliamentarian with huge potential and a very bright future ahead of her. It is quite clear from all of the comments that have been made since her death that she was hugely admired and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (21 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of an anomalous situation whereby a SUSI maintenance grant is not payable to a person (details supplied) who is on a work placement and remains registered a student; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17224/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal Charges (21 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 268. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that families who rely on adult nappies in the care of a dependent with a disability or older children who are not toilet ready due to a disability, are not seriously disadvantaged by the change to a pay-by-weight waste charge system as currently is the case. [17310/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (21 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 368. To ask the Minister for Health why there has been a delay in publishing the report on the ophthalmic clinical development programme; his plans for same and his views in respect of this programme. [16795/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Olympic Team Selection (21 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been excluded from the Irish Olympic team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17180/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (16 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 50. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will normalise the residency status of a person (details supplied); and if she will put temporary arrangements in place to facilitate the person in resuming employment while she is processing the application. [16448/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 54. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to review decisions made under the Syrian humanitarian admission programme to refuse family reunification visas (details supplied); the number of such visas she has issued since the programme began; and if she is satisfied that the guidelines are being applied consistently. [16495/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (16 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish or otherwise set out his understanding of the legal advice available to his Department in respect of repealing section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000, further to a contribution by a former Minister for State (details supplied) in the debate on the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 in Dáil Éireann...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (16 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy in relation to the repeal of section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000 or the addition of an amendment to this subsection so that it does not apply to schools in receipt of State funding or public money. [16487/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Seanad Reform (16 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 130. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government her plans to give legislative effect to the constitutional change in 1979, facilitating the extension of voting rights to Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16494/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (16 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 134. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to introduce amendments to Statutory Instrument No. 24 of 2016 to prevent excessive service charges being applied by domestic waste collection companies and to ensure the polluter-pays-principle as required by the same instrument is observed. [16484/16]