To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the local property tax allocation to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council; the amount by which this sum exceeds the General Purposes Grant of 2014; the amount of that excess, which can be used for discretionary purposes; the amount which is to be allocated from the excess to the housing and road areas, in order to release central Government funding for other purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

Speaking on Deputy Clare Daly's Fatal Foetal abnormalities Bill, Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown said, she "wished the solution were that simple".

I have said on the record on many occasions inside and outside the Chamber that I want to see in legislation a measure that would provide a legal framework for the termination of cases of fatal foetal abnormality.

Fine Gael TD for Longford/Westmeath Fine Gael TD, Gabrielle McFadden, has urged the HSE to expedite the recruitment of nurses to help alleviate overcrowding at the Midlands Regional Hospital.

Speaking on Deputy Clare Daly’s Fatal Foetal abnormalities Bill, Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown said, she “wished the solution were that simple”.

Fine Gael Dublin MEP, Brian Hayes, has today (Friday), said that a Special Committee agreed by the European Parliament Presidency, should not have the power to interfere with the European Commission's ongoing investigations into tax rulings of certain Member States, including Ireland.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD today announced the creation of 200 new jobs over the next five years by Combilift

Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown, said the Government announcement of a new primary school for the Goatstown/ Stillorgan area is welcome news for parents.

Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin South, welcomes the Government's announcement to extend the pyrite remediation scheme to include homes located in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and South Dublin.

Cork South Central TD and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, Jerry Buttimer, has said that the decision of the HSE to extend access to Eculizumab (Soliris) will come as a relief to people with diseases Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) and atypical Haemolytic Uraemic (aHUS). Deputy Buttimer has also said that exorbitant costs of new drugs and how much is paid by the State must be examined.