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Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendment No. 1 has been ruled out of order.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Amendment No. 1 not moved.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “Report on revised and progressive schedule of PRSI increases 4. The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on a revised and progressive schedule of PRSI increases in the years 2024 to 2029 which maintains the rate of...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: As regards amendment No. 1, it is out of my hands. I do not rule them in or out of order. Regarding amendment No. 2, I made the point previously about including commitments in primary legislation to producing reports, particularly legislation that is already as complex as the Social Welfare Consolidation Act. The actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund, published in March 2023, is...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for her amendment but at this time the Government does not propose to proceed with its inclusion. The Deputy will be aware that the Bill, as previously drafted, aimed to provide for regulations to be put in place to enable pharmacists to sell and supply certain prescription products in line with protocol, and this aimed to facilitate the sale and supply of oral...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is regrettable that the Minister of State is not taking this on board. She said the timescale is too short, but I am requesting that the Minister provides a report within six months and that is reasonable. I am not saying that a scheme has to start within six months; I am saying that we should have a report on it and I think that is a reasonable request to make. It makes absolute sense...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I have just been informed that the aim is to move the secondary legislation as soon as possible and that will include what the Deputy's ask entails. It is the aim of the Department to move that as a priority.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: When will that happen? A lot of other health legislation is backed up that is supposed to be a priority. Is it the case that there is no timescale?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: There is no timeframe.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will press the amendment.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Amendment put and declared lost.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Amendment No. 7 not moved.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 8: In page 12, after line 22, to insert the following: “PART 4 AMENDMENT OF PHARMACY ACT 2007 Amendment of Pharmacy Act 2007 10. The Pharmacy Act 2007 is amended— (a) in section 7(1)— (i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a): “(a) to regulate the profession of pharmacy in the State, including...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Amendment agreed to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: Shannonside Foods in Straffan is in my constituency of North Kildare. I have tabled a lot of parliamentary questions to the Minister about animal welfare and cruelty. The replies I have received from the Department are within the letter of the answer rather than the spirit of the question. I noticed that the Department moved at lightning speed away from animal cruelty and towards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: Mr. Sheahan does know that as a Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine vet, he does not need a court order to check any of the other buildings such as the shed and the pre-slaughter house. He is aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: Regarding licensing, in response to some of my parliamentary questions, the Minister outlined that to have a licence, an applicant must sign a declaration saying that he or she did not have an animal cruelty conviction for at least three years. I raised this as a Topical Issue last Thursday and asked the Department to provide me with the date of the licence because Mr. J. J. Fitzpatrick had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: The owner of the establishment had a conviction on 13 September 2012. It was not just an ordinary conviction for animal cruelty. He had not been kicking a dog. It was a conviction for cruelty to horses. In a separate response, the Minister told me last night that Shannonside Foods was given a conditional certificate to slaughter in July 2015, which is within the three-year period. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: Does he think that is a credible person?