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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I welcome the spirit of the amendment. I understand the motivation is well-meaning because week after week we see publication after publication from HIQA about the warehousing of people with profound intellectual disabilities. The use of chemical intervention as a consequence of the collapse in supports and budgets in this area is something about which we have grave concerns. We have only...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I appreciate the intention of the legislation is an incremental step to get to a location where we are in a position to ratify the United Nations Convention. When we reconvene, I will read into the record of the Dáil, and it may provide the Minister of State an opportunity to work on this issue, a statement made by the United Nations with respect to how dignity must prevail in this...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It has shone a light and forced transparency in this area, and both sides of the House should agree its work in this area to protect the most vulnerable people in society should not be hampered and should be supported.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I welcome the comments of the Minister of State. It is an important signal to send out. There is a degree of anxiety around this area of the Bill.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: In the spirit in which we are all having a big love-in today, I am sure the Minister of State does not-----

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I will observe the rules.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I am agreeing on the basis that we can disagree in future. The Minister of State is making an administrative decision to provide for the most beneficial administrative way to administer the agreement without it being tampered with on a daily or weekly basis. We are going to have to observe this in practice to ensure all stakeholders can tie in to reviewing it in future. I suppose all...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is an unusual discussion because the spirit of the Bill relates to a human rights ethos. The administration of human rights with an administrative function is somewhat complex. It could pose some challenges for us in the future. Anyway, no legislation is perfect. We will support what the Minister of State is proposing. However, it is on the basis that we would be prepared to learn...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I welcome the amendment. We agree with the spirit of what the Minister of State is trying to achieve. We have come from an evolving society in which many dark things happened historically. I welcome the amendment of the cold language in many parts of the historical legislation. I welcome the technical amendments, the humanisation of the legislation and the removal of cold language that...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I agree with the Minister of State that this is a significant amendment and we will support it. I would anticipate that there is nowhere in this legislation that the Minister of State would expressly provide for the effecting of consent around marriage, civil partnership, civil relationships, placing children for adoption, any sexual relations, or voting on election days. We had the...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is clear that the Minister of State has listened during this process, given the scale of the amendments. The spirit of what we are trying to achieve concerns the interests of the people. The Minister of State mentioned that this Bill is not strictly about the perception of a sector within the mental health field. That is well noted. We will support this legislation as best we can...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is important to have the debate and to use our parliamentary time to address any of the confusion that exists. This is a very complex area as the Minister of State has said and it is important that we wholesomely engage. Clearly, there is confusion in the process when one has Government backbenchers seeking to amend the Bill. The spirit in which we want to see the Bill progress is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 133. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for eye cataract surgery; the reason the person has so far had three appointments scheduled, cancelled and re-scheduled; the guarantee that will be provided that the latest appointment, re-scheduled for 2016, will not be cancelled yet again; the reason this person has been forced...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Workplace Equipment Adaptation Grant (21 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if grants are available to employers to upgrade their buildings to make them accessible to persons with mobility issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36811/15]

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Government parties have attempted to paint the issue surrounding NAMA and the disposal of Project Eagle as a fuss stirred up by some in the Opposition, as an attempt to blacken the name of NAMA, or as a responsibility of the Stormont Assembly. The attitude of the Government with respect to the disposal of State assets alarms me, because we are managing a situation, as Deputy Cowen said,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the key measures under the new comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35284/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on concerns that the new comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities is arriving four years too late for this Government to deliver on the strong commitments made by An Taoiseach and Ministers at the strategy's launch; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35285/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost in 2015 of the wage subsidy scheme; the financial implications to the Exchequer of reducing the minimum hours threshold from 21 hours to 18 hours per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36449/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 704. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of the Dublin Bus fleet that is wheelchair accessible in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36416/15]

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is not difficult at all. Now that you have betrayed them, chew them up and spit them out - Judas.