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Wed, 15 Nov 2017
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Maternity Services Provision
Mick Barry
39. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if the provision of anomaly scanning for all pregnancies will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48181/17]
Wed, 15 Nov 2017
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Traveller Community
Mick Barry
59. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health his views on the high number of Travellers affected by suicide (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48182/17]
Wed, 15 Nov 2017
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Hospital Overcrowding
Mick Barry
92. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the trolley crisis and emergency department overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48179/17]
Wed, 15 Nov 2017
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Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
Mick Barry
95. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health his plans for eliminating waiting times of more than 12 weeks for inpatient procedures, ten weeks for outpatient appointments and ten days for diagnostic tests. [48178/17]
Wed, 15 Nov 2017
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Alcohol Pricing
Mick Barry
98. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if an analysis has been conducted regarding the equality impact of minimum unit pricing for alcohol and its potential effects on chronic alcoholics and their families. [48180/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Irish Water Staff
Mick Barry
48. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason the original service level agreements between local authorities and Irish Water that would have retained the services of local authority waterworks personnel to Irish Water up to 2026 have been amended; if local authority waterworks personnel will be asked to transfer to Irish Water within the next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45286/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Traveller Accommodation
Mick Barry
49. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if emergency measures will be put in place to properly accommodate Travellers in Spring Lane, County Cork, and other sites that have been storm damaged. [45287/17]
Wed, 25 Oct 2017
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Cabinet Committee Meetings
Mick Barry
3. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D (infrastructure) will meet next. [42739/17]
Wed, 25 Oct 2017
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School Accommodation
Mick Barry
66. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will reconsider its refusal to fund a new space at a school (details supplied) for resource teaching; and if his officials will meet with the principal and board of management of the school. [44818/17]
Tue, 24 Oct 2017
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Citizens Information Services
Mick Barry
393. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the statement of the former Secretary General of her Department addressing the Committee of Public Accounts on 28 May 2015 to the effect that changes to the future corporate governance arrangements for Citizens Information Services and MABS had not at that stage been considered by the Citizens Information Board, CIB; if she can reconcile this with her own recent statement in Dáil Éireann on 11 July 2017 (details supplied) that the board had decided the matter in November 2014; if she will report on whether her Department was consulted by the CIB on the corporate governance model for Citizens Information Services and MABS; if so, if she will publish her Department's contribution to the discussion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44795/17]
Tue, 24 Oct 2017
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Local Authority Housing Data
Mick Barry
422. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department collects annual statistics from local authorities on the number of joint tenancies in local authority and approved body housing in which one partner relinquishes the tenancy; if so, the number of these instances it is the female partner who relinquishes their share of the tenancy leaving the male partner as the sole tenant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44794/17]
Wed, 18 Oct 2017
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Defence Forces Allowances
Mick Barry
73. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures that will be put in place by his Department to recompense members of the Defence Forces who have been denied their full annual leave entitlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43991/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Industrial Relations
Mick Barry
4. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the industrial relations situation in Irish Rail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42237/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Bus Services
Mick Barry
12. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the various industrial disputes in the UK in recent years involving bus workers and a company (details supplied) that has recently been successful in its tender application for 10% of Dublin Bus routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42028/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Bus Éireann Services
Mick Barry
35. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the unforeseen recent announcement by Bus Éireann to discontinue four routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42030/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Climate Change Policy
Mick Barry
46. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if in co-operation with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment he will elaborate a policy for the expansion of public transport and the radical reduction of public transport fares in order to avert the possibility of fines being imposed on Ireland for not reaching its CO2 emission targets by 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42029/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Aviation Industry
Mick Barry
52. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department has taken to ensure the protection of the rights of passengers that booked flights with a company (details supplied) that have subsequently been cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42027/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Bus Services
Mick Barry
71. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a complaint made to the Health and Safety Authority regarding alleged unsafe practice by a company (details supplied) with regard to the training of drivers in the operation of the new routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42031/17]
Tue, 3 Oct 2017
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Greyhound Industry
Mick Barry
65. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will revise the requirement for greyhound owners to register with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40720/17]
Tue, 3 Oct 2017
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Medicinal Products Availability
Mick Barry
306. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health the number of applications that have been received in the past year by the HSE from persons seeking a licence to use medicinal cannabis products here; the number of these applications that were granted; and the criteria that were used in accepting or rejecting applications [41306/17]