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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (31 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding a motion (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24082/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (31 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce an incremental instalment payment plan to assist persons in paying the cost of water connection charges that would be considered excessive or are in excess of a predetermined threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24107/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (30 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure that good animals are not being dismissed under the technicalities of the BDGP scheme; the steps he is taking to ensure that the skill of assessing an animal by eye is not being dismissed by the technicalities of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23643/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (30 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the possibility of increasing the level of direct support for the suckler cow herd to €200 per cow under the next CAP will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23642/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 58. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding his commitment to examine a number of proposals to improve cardiac care in the south east, including the deployment of a modular laboratory that will allow for diagnostic angiograms and intervention procedures; the status of efforts by UHW management to recruit additional staff to extend the operation of the existing cath lab by 20%;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Question Heading (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 426. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to Irish Medical Organisation data which predicts that 42% of general practitioners in County Kilkenny will retire over the next five to seven years. [23547/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of running and maintaining the school transport appeals board; the value of payments to staff and all associated staff in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals granted by the school transport appeals board in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23647/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the use of equipment (details supplied) in the treatment of children with scoliosis; the steps he has taken to satisfy himself that there are no health and safety risks to children with scoliosis being treated with the equipment; the steps he has taken to ensure that parents are informed about potential health and safety risks in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to correct the inequity in waiting times, which can differ in children's hospitals by up to two years in some cases, for outpatient children with scoliosis (details supplied); the steps he has taken to ensure that lists are amalgamated, as committed to previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23299/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of vests for bracing therapy for children being treated for scoliosis; the steps he has taken to ensure that vests for bracing therapy are provided to children being treated for scoliosis free of charge at children's hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23300/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the number of opening days per week for operating theatres at children's hospitals (details supplied); if operating theatre opening days will be extended, if possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23301/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the four-month waiting list target for surgeries for children suffering with scoliosis not being met as committed to previously; the steps he has taken to ensure that the 88 children currently waiting longer than four months will be catered for as urgently as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23302/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget Submissions (29 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 451. To ask the Minister for Health if the possibility of reducing the household charge for family carers in advance of budget 2019 will be examined; if the possibility of extending the provision of general practitioner visit cards to those in receipt of the respite care grant in advance of budget 2019 will be examined; his views on the provision of State-funded panic buttons or personal...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome the witnesses. Will Dr. Love explain the HEA's service level agreement with the Department of Education and Skills, what it entails and what responsibilities in terms of governance come with it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Does the HEA have responsibility for the institutions all over the country on a weekly or monthly basis so that the HEA has a hands-on approach watching what goes on in each institution and how their business is being run? Is that part of the service level agreement?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I asked that because of the matters that came up that we discussed earlier. Must the HEA wait every year for the annual report from each institution before it can intervene if there is anything that the HEA needs to get involved in or is it done on an ongoing basis during the year?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I will move on to the pension funding both in UCC and CIT that the Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned. On UCC first, is this €15.7 million in shared funding the Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned a shortfall of moneys that is not there to cover future pension liabilities? My understanding of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report is that it will be a shared...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Is this a 50:50 split?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Why must the State come in with 50% and why is UCC not able to fund its own pensions? Why is the State, which is basically taxpayers' money, being used to subsidise pension funding? Why is UCC not able to carry its own weight and fund its own pensions? I want to hear Mr. Collins' view on that.