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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: Once again, we have a situation where beef farmers are being crucified by the actions of the people we send to represent us in Brussels. The European Commissioner, Phil Hogan, when he was a Minister, was the architect of the disastrous water charges problem which mobilised tens of thousands of people in opposition to them at the time. Now in the European Union he is one of the architects of...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: I just need a minute. Does the Government have a veto on the deal? Is it prepared to stand up and demand a veto to stop the deal going through? It will take courage and balls to take it on. I hope the Minister and the Government will have the courage of their convictions.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for limiting the supply of cystic fibrosis medication for a person to a three-month supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29368/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: 403. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29404/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: 405. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment at Cork University Hospital. [29417/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (3 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: 215. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the Kerry Garda division trained as divisional asset profilers as of 31 December 2017, 31 December 2018 and 7 June 2019, in tabular form. [28494/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Industry Regulation (3 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the Private Security Services Act 2004. [28495/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (2 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: Angela Fitzgerald, a senior manager overseeing acute hospitals, has highlighted a growth in delays releasing healthy patients from hospitals. She has said that a National Service Plan 2019 target of having fewer than 550 beds subject to the so-called "delayed discharge" is being missed. This is Ms Fitzgerald saying this, not me. The number recorded from Ms Fitzgerald's briefing from April...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (2 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: Everybody in this House recognises the importance of the fair deal scheme and that it has served our society so well in the past. The €30 million deficit in the scheme this year is having a detrimental effect. The consequences are that beds in hospital for people who are ill are being taken by healthy patients. I refer to elderly individuals who are in hospitals and have nobody to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: I have asked previously about a management plan for the brown crab fishery. There is no management plan there. It is being exploited at present and overfished, and it will be a disaster if something is not done about it. I am asking the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, and the Government whether they intend to bring forward a management plan for that inshore fishery.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Maritime Jurisdiction (2 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the maritime baseline on the east coast is a straight baseline or a low water baseline; and if he will provide a map of the baseline. [28139/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (2 Jul 2019)

Martin Ferris: 371. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has recently been discharged from hospital will receive an urgently required hospital bed at their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27463/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (26 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: What is needed is an active policy change by the Government to try to secure the survival and viability of rural post offices as otherwise 600 post offices will close in the next number few years. That is the reality. It will happen in the constituency of the Minister of State and the constituency of every Deputy in the House. It would take very little to make them secure and viable such...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (26 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: Yesterday, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae and I met representatives of the Irish Postmasters Union, IPU, on the crisis in the network of rural post offices. The Government has been speaking on both sides of its mouth to the effect that there is no policy directive on social welfare payments being paid out in rural post offices. Rural post offices tell us, however, that social welfare officers are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: On 13 January 2016, the Maritime Jurisdiction (Straight Baseline) Order was made from Malin Head to Carnsore Point, all along the west and south coasts, with the formalisation of thevoisinageagreement through the passage of all Stages of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 in the past few weeks. I have been told that a statutory instrument from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: The Healy-Rae family and the Sinn Féin Party have been very supportive of each other down through the years. More importantly, the Healy-Rae family are my friends. I first met Jackie Healy-Rae sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. That was at a time when Robert Beasley, the Sinn Féin county councillor for Kerry, had to emigrate because of the circumstances. We had to find a...

Home Help: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: It is an awful indictment of this State that people who are so vulnerable and who want to remain in their own areas and homes are being denied a proper home help service. It is a terrible indictment that 6,500 people are on the waiting list. An even bigger indictment is the amount of money, €6,000 each, spent to keep people in hospital and in valuable beds or in nursing homes at a...

Community Policing and Rural Crime: Motion (20 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin and the committee for an excellent report. A lot of research was presented verbally and in other ways to the committee that helped to make this report what it is. I commend everyone involved in that regard. All of us can recite incidents of types of crime in our communities, much of it similar but some of it more aggressive and violent than others. I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (18 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an earlier drop-off time can be facilitated for buses servicing a school (details supplied) in order that the school can attract more students which would allow retention of adequate teaching numbers. [25036/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jun 2019)

Martin Ferris: 354. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an ENT appointment at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/19]

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