Fergus O'Dowd, TD

various issues affecting the cost of private health insurance

regard to achievement of universal health insurance

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if under legislation Irish Water are permitted to store PPS numbers of children; and if so, if they can be passed on to a third party?

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider legislation similar to that in the United Kingdom limiting the height of trees in small suburban gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

The Arab Spring of 2011, seen as a generally peaceful uprising of citizens, spread quickly across North Africa and into some countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

Fine Gael TD for Cork East, David Stanton, has today (Tuesday), put forward an amendment to the Electoral Act 1997, to give people who are away on holidays the facility to vote by post in elections.

Fine Gael candidate in the Dublin South West bye-election, Senator Cáit Keane, has called on people to support the local mental health organisations, saying the work they do is often unacknowledged.

I have informed the Taoiseach that under the circumstances, I am withdrawing my name and asking the Members of the Oireachtas not to vote for me in the upcoming Seanad bye-election.

I wish to address a number of issues in relation to the appointment of John McNulty to the Board of Directors of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).

Fine Gael Meath East TD, Regina Doherty has today (Tuesday) said that it is imperative we extend the successful Breastcheck programme to women over 65 in order to save more lives.