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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: It will be clear from the outset?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: Can board members who are appointed for three years be reappointed after three years?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: I wish to make a general comment rather than comment on the amendment. Many of the amendments discussed together deal with the same issues. Therefore, while it may seem that many amendments are being withdrawn, just one or two amendments on Report Stage would cover all the issues.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: For the life of me I cannot see how defining one of the functions of an tSeirbhís Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna, SOLAS, could get in the way of its operations.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: There is a cohort of people who are unemployed and are not receiving jobseeker's allowance because a spouse is working and they are means-tested. In many cases such people are excluded from programmes on the basis that they are not receiving a payment. Will the amendment address that situation?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: Is there any way to look at the issue more proactively? There are a group of people who deserve further training in order to get back into the workforce. They are excluded because means-tested payments are not available to them. They need to be supported.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: Amendment No. 19 is a technical amendment. It does not deal with the content of the Bill. I cannot understand why agreeing to amendment No. 19 means amendment No. 20 is excluded.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: I wish to clarify a point with the Minister of State. It is proposed in the amendment, on line 10, after the word "be", to insert the word "to".

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: That will mean that the word "to" will appear in paragraph (a). Does that mean there will be a doubling up in the use of the word "to" or I am missing a point?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: That is fine.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Minister of State's proposal to delete the definition. I know from meeting groups interested in the passage of the Bill that this is causing concern because of what it is not, rather than what it is. The amendment is to be welcomed and I support it.

Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: The programme for Government states: "We will seek a mechanism to compensate those women who were excluded on age grounds alone from the Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme", yet no apparent action has been taken on this matter. I have raised it before and others have also raised it with the Taoiseach. The last time I raised it, I asked the Taoiseach to take a personal interest in this to bring...

Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Brendan Ryan: It is in the programme for Government.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Applications (30 Apr 2013)

Brendan Ryan: 286. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to an application for one parent family payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin, if she will confirm the deductions that will be made from the arrears payment; if an explanation will be provided for any deductions made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19755/13]

Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and welcome its broad thrust. It is an administrative and housekeeping Bill rather than radical legislation aimed at improving our competitive position as a location for business investment. It is welcome that for the first time in the State's history the most common form of company, the private limited company, has been placed at the centre of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Library Services (23 Apr 2013)

Brendan Ryan: 430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the figures for the numbers of visitors from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012 to the libraries in each of the following towns in County Dublin, Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush, Malahide and Swords. [18496/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a patient referred by their general practitioner to the Phlebotomy Department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, for an ordinary blood test to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17798/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Health the cost of an ordinary blood test in the Phlebotomy Department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, for a non-medical card holder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17799/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Appeals (16 Apr 2013)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of planning appeals to An Bord Pleanala that were refused against the recommendation of the Board's own Inspector, for the Fingal region from January 2011 until 4 April 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16981/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (16 Apr 2013)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of Peace Commissioners registered in the Fingal area of County Dublin. [16152/13]