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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (4 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is on a list to be admitted to Ashling House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4901/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (4 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 727. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in Kerry and Cork must wait for more than two years to have cataracts removed; the action he will take to rectify this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5540/14]

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Government told lies about the property tax.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans with regard to allowing extra staff for schools with large infant intakes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4744/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Flood Relief Schemes Applications (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he proposes to put in place to make funding available to Kerry County Council to make up the cost of repairing damage following the recent storms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4741/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Expenditure (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that contractors appointed to install water meters in homes are being paid per meter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4747/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Seniors Alert Scheme (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a scheme will be put in place where persons would get grant aid to replace the monitoring alarm systems damaged during the recent storms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4749/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a strand beside a property is in the ownership of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry or is in the ownership of the State. [4750/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Legislation (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the forestry bill will be detrimental to the expansion of the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4743/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Premium Payments (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers wishing to plant land will still be able to receive 20 years of payments tax free for planting their lands; if the level of grant aid for planting forestry will still be maintained at 100% that it is at present; if he will confirm that the amount of premium paid will be maintained at the same level as present for farmers...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards that were removed from persons from February 2011 to February 2012, from February 2012 to February 2013 and from February 2013 to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4656/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 201. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a legal obligation on the Health Service Executive to implement remedial action and recommendations proposed by the HSA report regarding the psychiatric services unit at Kerry General Hospital as situations have occurred in the past which have placed the safety of persons working in the unit at risk; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 210. To ask the Minister for Health his actions in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4742/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (30 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with regard to maximum load heights, his plans to make an exemption in cases where fodder is imported into the county on a continuous basis as the contractors who haul this fodder will have to increase the costs if the height of their loads is reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4745/14]

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will, a Cheann Comhairle, but it is all tied up. We are talking about jobs, enterprise and trying to keep people at work. I am drawing the conclusion that, in regard to what the Government has done and the decisions it has taken, time will prove this is not just bad, not just mad, but actually disastrously and financially hurtful to the people of the country. I want to make brief...

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will stick rigorously to the clock, a Cheann Comhairle. You can be assured of that. I might not be on my best behaviour all the time but I do try to keep myself on the straight and narrow in the best way I can to conform with the rules. I am thankful for the opportunity to talk on the Bill. I would be delighted if, in ten or 20 years, the Minister of State could say I was wrong in my...

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Members from the Technical Group for allowing me some of their time to speak on the Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013. Unlike some of my colleagues I will not be jumping up and down and I do not want to burst the Minister of State's bubble. However, I wish to highlight some problems with the Bill. It sounds great to talk about the dissolution of an...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Young people who are forced to work abroad are finding they have to come home to renew their driving licences, which is wrong. Will this issue be addressed in the Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Issues (29 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 129. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on introducing a rates reduction for our struggling small businesses here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4454/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Appeals (29 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4417/14]