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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details on the steps her Department is taking in addressing the 'cliff-edges' in welfare systems; as she is aware these 'cliff-edges' in the welfare systems are where benefit entitlements and other supports are withdrawn sharply; these 'cliff-edges' disincentivise individuals from increasing their work hours or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the measures being taken to support low-income families, such as increases in weekly social welfare payments, an increase in the domiciliary care allowance, and increases in the income thresholds for the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7457/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made on the development of a new Garda station in Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, County Tipperary; if the development of Clonmel Garda station is considered a priority for Government, given that a new Garda station in Clonmel is urgently needed for the members of An Garda Síochána stationed in Clonmel and for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Irish-speaking Community, specifically those pertaining to the exemption from Irish for dyslexic children and young people, if she is aware of the disappointment of The Dyslexia Association of Ireland that their points and views/recommendations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address a matter regarding primary school admission policies (details supplied). [7568/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information on any meetings that she or her Departmental officials have had with Bus Éireann concerning the ban on school bus drivers who are over 70 years of age (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7990/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 529. To ask the Minister for Health when the guideline and calculations used to assess the qualification for the under-70s medical card was last reviewed; how can it be justified and deemed equitable that the basic allowance for a couple to qualify for a full medical under-70s medical card still stands at €266.50 per week, when the rate of jobseeker’s allowance for a couple is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 606. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the provision of primary school dental services by the Health Service Executive in CHO5 and 3; the waiting times for the initial assessment of an individual and the subsequent waiting times for orthodontic treatment for such individuals once they have been referred; his views on whether it is acceptable that a child residing in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Foreign Birth Registration (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can review an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7088/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a school (details supplied), and consider a request from the board of management and parents for support from her Department to establish an autism-specific special class in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6726/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding breeding waders and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6837/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding farmland birds and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6838/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding high nature value farmland and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6839/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding the hen harrier within the ‘current distribution and breeding distribution for hen harrier’ layer and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6840/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 288. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the current caseload of the Nenagh Child and Family Agency Children’s Disability Network Team; the current level of whole time equivalent staff based in Nenagh’s CDNT; the number of WTE staff positions that are currently vacant, and the plans in place to address these vacancies;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Fuels (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the plans for the end of the motor fuel subsidy on 31 March 2024 (details supplied); if he plans to review or reverse this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 17 January 2024, when her Department will issue a detailed and explanatory response to serious matters raised in correspondence from the management and principal of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6567/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 17 January 2024, how the lottery system used during the STEM grant application process was highlighted in the briefing document to schools before they applied; her views on whether a lottery system was fair, considering the short timeframe offered to schools to complete the application, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options available to small rural primary schools that do not have the equipment or staff to heat, maintain and serve hot school meals through the hot meals programme; if her Department will provide such schools with additional funding to obtain heating equipment and the finances to compensate an existing member of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will intervene in the case of issues concerning a 2023 basic income support for sustainability, BISS, application by farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6310/24]