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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: (Resumed) Alcohol Research Group (12 Mar 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: Alcohol is a drug.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Votáil Uachtaráin) 2014: An Dara Céim [Private Members] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Mar 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: I commend my constituency colleague on introducing the debate on this issue but otherwise we will swim in different directions. The existing Constitution is almost 80 years old and this would be the 34th amendment. The Constitution itself has only 50 articles. The existing Constitution has no kinship with what life was like in 1937. This country has changed utterly, some of it for the...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: On the other hand, we should not crusade around the world chasing after US or Russian invasions. We should be able to come to the House to speak freely. Those of us who are elected should be free to decide to whether we should become involved in any activity in any part of the world. We should have that freedom.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: The principal reason for my reservations about including a commitment to neutrality in the Constitution is that I am opposed to neutrality. All parliamentarians and parliaments in the free world should be free to express their views. We have a duty to do so openly and with freedom. In that vein, parliaments should have the choice or freedom to make decisions on whether they should support...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (3 Mar 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: 463. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if resolution is close to hand, for the release of a person (details supplied), who is currently incarcerated in Cairo, Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8764/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: Having read and re-read the presentations, as independent operators the witnesses can agree on one thing, namely, the price reduction of gas in the past 13 months of 16% or 18%. This is completely at variance with what energy experts are saying. Consumer correspondents in the national papers refer to a figure closer to 30%. There has been a great deal of talk about what has happened in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: How can Electric Ireland announce a price reduction of 2.5% from 1 April 2015? By the way, a constituent of mine saw the humour in it, it being April Fool's Day? How can a single company make such an announcement?

Topical Issues: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (24 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. Like her, I read the RED C poll. I am not sure about the validity or the truth or otherwise of those who were surveyed who said that they would very quickly give up their private investment in the rental sector. Why would they give it up? They say in a poll that they would but as we now know, rents were at their highest in 2007 when the...

Topical Issues: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (24 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: As the previous Deputy has done, I wish to highlight the issue of the accelerating rents being charged in the private rental sector. We cannot ignore the trends in that sector. I firmly believe the only solution is to have a temporary rent freeze, ideally for a period of two years. Any Deputy who might have said 12 months ago that it was attractive to invest in the private rented sector...

Topical Issue Debate: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (19 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: I thank the Chair and will act on his advice by not going back over any of the territory covered by previous speakers. I wish to ask a question about the protection of employment, but before doing so, I thank the witnesses for their presentations. While I may not agree with everything they have said, I respect them for coming before the committee and being both direct and forthright in what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: I welcome the Minister, the Minister of State and their staff, who are always welcome to the health committee meeting. The national rare disease plan launched last summer - July, I think - was universally welcomed. It is an interesting initiative in that such work has not previously been done. It is one of the reasons there was such a positive attitude among politicians, medics and so on....

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: This debate is long overdue, as we are coming from behind in this area, with our neighbours and those further afield having child care systems that exceed ours. For a variety of reasons, we are playing catch-up. A report entitled Childcare: Business or Profession? was introduced by the Minister at the end of last year. The research was done by an umbrella group called Start Strong, which...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (5 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: I thank the Minister for his interesting reply. Some argue that a simple solution to the problem would be to provide more equipment but of course that is extremely expensive. It costs, I think, over €1 million. In these times we will not see too many additional scanners. I am encouraged by what the Minister said about moving on to utilise the service and expanding it. I did not...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (5 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: There would be no anaesthetists.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (5 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: The issue relates specifically to the MRI scan service at our largest paediatric hospital, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. It has an impressive record of care for children and continues to have that reputation nationally and beyond. The issue is the delay in the scanning service. I have had representations from parents about the increase in the backlog and staff at the hospital...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: In the nearly four years I have sat in this Dáil, the majority of our debates have related in some way to the financial crisis, including the collapse of the banking system. Whatever we learn from the programme of which we, along with our European neighbours, are part, we must ensure the mistakes of the last seven or eight years are never repeated. Sometimes we wrongly speak as if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Charities Regulation (3 Feb 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: 377. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will instruct the Charities Regulatory Authority to allow voluntary members to opt out of supplying their PPS numbers when updating their charity entry on the register of charities (details supplied). [4766/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Fuel Prices (29 Jan 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: The Minister, Deputy White, will be aware of the issue I wish to raise. I read his statement concerning his discussions with the oil companies and petrol suppliers. I raise this issue because the wholesale price of oil has, I am thankful to say, been dropping. In the past 13 months it has dropped by almost 40%, but the decrease has not been passed on to the consumer in the retail sector....

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Fuel Prices (29 Jan 2015)

Eamonn Maloney: I thank the Minister. I am not saying there has been no decrease in the price. What I am arguing, as the Minister has acknowledged, is that there is no correlation between the wholesale price and the retail price that he and I, as consumers, pay for gas and electricity. In commending the Minister on his discussions with energy companies, I note that the companies did not make any serious...

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