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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (28 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 515. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding is being made available to both men’s sheds and women’s sheds through the community enhancement programme, which can then be used to pay for rent, insurance of premises and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23814/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (23 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 11. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is putting in place to alleviate the student accommodation crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (23 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the ERO for the security sector for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23315/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (23 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will commit to improving the northern and western region’s infrastructure ranking (details supplied); if so, the funding his Department will provide to improve this ranking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23331/24]

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important motion on the totally unacceptable lack of dentistry services in Ireland. The motion lays bare the damning statistics, which I will not repeat. They are stark. If there was only one recommendation I would ask the Government to put in place from this motion, it would be to commit to providing the required funding in budget...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what funding is in place for the development of the Sligo, Leitrim, northern counties railway greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23209/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to an application for a new school bus route in County Roscommon (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23146/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 196. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE recruitment embargo will be lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23207/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I apologise for being in and out of the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I was attending a meeting of the committee on European affairs and I was also speaking in the House. I thank all of the witnesses. I have not had a chance to read their presentations but I will do so later. I came to raise a specific issue in order that I could hear the views of the IMO on it. It is in the context of the HSE moratorium on the recruitment of staff, specifically the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: Dr. McNamara put it perfectly. We should recruit staff appropriately and sustainably. We should let the system work, let the people in the system feel that it is working and let the patients in the system see that it is working, instead of this madness that has been described of these requests being made for locums for unfilled NCHD posts. To me, as someone completely outside the system...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: The division is deferred until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: Deputies Buckley, Kerrane and Funchion are sharing time.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: Thank you, Deputy.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Deputy’s time is up. I call Deputy Wynne.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion on housing. It is interesting to note that Sinn Féin is calling for "a radical reset of Government housing policy", which is the exact same call made by the Housing Commission in its report. This independent body, set up by Government to look at housing policy, also called for a "radical strategic reset of housing policy." Its...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (21 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is an indicative list of existing and potential projects that are being considered under the climate and nature fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22482/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (21 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the provisions and steps that have been made and taken by the Government to unwind the FEMPI measures; the categories of people, whether professional service providers or otherwise (including public servants), who have and have not had the FEMPI reductions in their salaries, pensions and payments reversed; and if he will make a...