Martin Heydon, TD

Fine Gael Cork South West TD, Noel Harrington, has said that the Irish fisheries sector is to benefit from a successful trade mission to China by Minister for Agriculture and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD.

Fine Gael TD for Longford Westmeath, Gabrielle McFadden, has today (Wednesday) condemned Sinn Féin’s ambiguous attitude to the law in the wake of comments by their Environment spokesperson Brian Stanley that ‘bad laws sometimes have to be broken’.

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the growing waiting lists for the allocation of funding for the Fair Deal scheme and the financial hardship it is causing families; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

Fine Gael TD for Cork South West, Jim Daly, has said that a dairy seminar being held today (Tuesday) in Beijing will be of huge benefit to Irish farmers.

Fine Gael TD for Kildare North, Anthony Lawlor, has said that a dairy seminar being held today (Tuesday) in Beijing offers real opportunities to Irish farmers.

Fine Gael Cork North Central Senator, Colm Burke, has renewed his call for Ireland’s main health agencies to collaborate with the IT sector to develop a system by which vulnerable people with mild memory loss and patients with dementia, could be easily located in the event they go missing.

Fine Gael Dublin Senator Catherine Noone has urged the Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar TD, to make calorie labelling on all alcoholic beverages mandatory. Recent research conducted by the Royal Society of Public Health in the UK found that alcohol drinkers consume 400 fewer calories during a night in the pub if their drinks have calorie labels.

Fine Gael TD for Limerick, Party Chairperson, and President of the Irish Association for Suicidology, Dan Neville, has today (Tuesday), called for increased policing of social media websites to tackle cyber-bullying.

Fine Gael TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Pat Deering, has today (Tuesday), welcomed the establishment of a new process which will reinvigorate the technological university of the South East project, announced by the Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan TD.

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to utilise the new facility purchased at Mount Carmel; and if he will make a statement on the matter.?