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National Dementia Strategy Implementation: Statements (14 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I am grateful for the opportunity to make a statement on the national dementia strategy. Dementia is a deeply distressing condition, both for those suffering from it and for their families. It presents a significant and growing challenge for the Government, the State and health and social services. As our population ages, the number of people with dementia increase and in response to...

Independent Planning Regulator: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Buachaillí bó.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (12 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 285. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm if borrowers of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation were offered an incentive discount on their loans to refinance or buy their loans back from the special liquidators before the special liquidators had to put the loans up for auction; if so, the number of borrowers who were granted this discount; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (12 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 459. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway may expect to receive an appointment for a medical procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18282/15]

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Moriarty tribunal report, which was delivered early in 2011, almost simultaneous with the formation of the current Government - contained very serious findings against two named individuals, a former Fine Gael Minister and a prominent businessman. There was much pious rhetoric in this House and much hullabaloo about what was going to be done in the next four years and in the programme...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether not extending all Intreo services to persons with disabilities throughout Ireland, including all the voluntary activation schemes, for example, the Youth Guarantee scheme and Momentum, regardless of payment type that the disabled person is on, discriminates against persons with disabilities when they seek activation and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 57. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the proposals she will bring forward to ensure that persons with disabilities will not be worse off if they take up employment opportunities; the way she proposes to make work pay for persons with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17245/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insolvency Service of Ireland Data (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 261. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the administrative cost of running the Insolvency Service of Ireland in 2014; the total fees received by the service in 2014; the total number of cases completed across each category of insolvency arrangement; the budget allocated to the service for 2015; the total staff currently employed by the service; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, broken down by Health Service Executive area, the number of paramedics the HSE plans to hire in 2015; the number of positions that have currently been filled; the number that are currently in the recruitment process; if all these positions will be opened to external candidates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17220/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health posts due, under the budget 2015 allocation of €35 million, to be advertised at the end of Quarter 1 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17287/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 307. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway can expect to receive an appointment for a long awaited medical procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17368/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines her Department issued on the use of face-down prone restraints in primary or secondary level schools, including schools that service special educational needs in particular; her views that the use of these restraints pose a risk to the health, well-being, or life of the children who this form of restraint is used upon; if her...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that the current site of a school (details supplied) in County Galway is not fit for purpose, when the pupils and teachers of the school can expect the building of the new school, announced in 2012, to commence; whether it will be on the accelerated building programme; when she anticipates the school opening; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the boost that it could have provided to the region, and in view of the serious levels of deprivation that exist in Gort and Tuam in County Galway, his views that it is regrettable that so few local persons have been employed on the construction of the M17 and M18 Gort to Tuam motorway; the action he will take to rectify...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the already high levels of economic deprivation that exist in Gort, County Galway and the fears of the local business community, which has worked hard to provide employment, that the single junction planned for the town will make it less attractive for passing trade along the motorway, if consideration will be given to an...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Easter Rising Commemorations (6 May 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 608. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views that Ireland should mark the anniversary of one of the main foundational moments in this country's struggle to achieve a national republic, the Easter Rising of 1916, in a manner similar to other republics, such as the United States of America and the French Republic, that is to say without any sense of apology to, or...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Correct. We were promised an inspiring drama, but today turned into a pantomime, although there was little humour over the past two days. Many people see the farce that the spring statement has become. For months, the Government, the spin doctors and the boys and girls in the corridors have been briefing the media on the plans for the forthcoming budget ahead of the next general election....

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: She is very touchy.

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: What is he hiding?

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)

Colm Keaveney: It is only as long as one makes it.