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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: On a point of information, the Department of Health website is updated reflecting the launch of this process, which is welcome.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have an aside for Dr. Casey, which I hope will be taken the right way. I hope he is being looked after. His beard and hair get longer every time we have a meeting and he is beginning to remind me of Tom Hanks in "Cast Away". I hope he is not cast away in the wilderness with a basketball called Gilbert for company. It is nice to see him. I mean that in a jovial way. The Department of...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I enjoyed the research on this Bill, mainly because a constituent came to my clinic last night who raised the issue and brought along his and his wife's private health insurance policy. He had noted that the premium for 2022 compared with the premium for 2021 had reduced but the credit for the risk equalisation had also reduced, resulting in little change in the overall cost of his premium....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the large waiting list of 139 children for the 2022-2023 school year for a school (details supplied); when construction will commence on the new building; and the projected number of students for the school for the next five years. [60367/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (7 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to mandate pandemic unemployment payments when they revert to being jobseeker’s for collection at post offices which among other issues would ensure that local economies would benefit from such a measure. [60412/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (7 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of domestic violence recorded in 2021 to date; the way it compares to previous years; the additional training that has been provided to An Garda Síochána in dealing with domestic violence incidents; and the additional resources that have been allocated by An Garda Síochána to deal with this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence (7 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 533. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that have been put in place to tackle domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60046/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Acting Chairman for allowing me latitude.

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: We need to be careful about language in this House, particularly at this time. I uphold - one might ask who I am to uphold it - the right of every Deputy to express his or her views but, like me, Deputies will have noted an increase in the public temperature over the past week and, therefore, there is a need for measured comments and measured responses. I have heard members of the...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: It was also stated that there is no hope from Government. The Government moved very quickly this week. It met the Licensed Vintners' Association, the Irish Hotels Federation and the Restaurants Association of Ireland to respond as quickly as possible to the issues, concerns, anxieties and awful challenges that they face. The Government will continue to do that. A sum of €600...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Deputies opposite are entitled to constructively criticise the Government and to oppose the Government but if ever the country needed some semblance of the centre to hold, it is now. All Government decisions in the past year and a half have been predicated on science. When science starts to contradict itself that creates problems. When scientists say schools are safe and they then say...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: What about the funerals in the North?

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I am always interested in what Deputy Nash has to say. His contributions are always reflective and he is practical, reasonable and objective. Even he will recognise that his party leader, who is a former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, took a couple of steps regarding the size and scale of apartments that had a pretty devastating impact on property development...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Poverty (3 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 16. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures announced as part of budget 2022 to prevent and alleviate poverty during childhood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59459/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have a lot of sympathy with what the Deputy said about rebalancing this. It is important for the Minister to outline the economic context that initiated this process. Entities such as the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, and indigenous pension funds such as An Post that invested in some these organisations. I am of the view that so much momentum has now been gained, particularly...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: In my own modest way, I was a big believer in and proponent of the rainy-day fund on the Joint Committee on Budgetary Oversight. With regard to what Deputy Doherty said, if there is to be some kind of a windfall, for want of a better term, as a result of this increase in the standard rate of corporation tax, how do we marry that with the consistent commentary by IFAC, the Economic and Social...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I apologise. I was not watching the clock.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Deputy Boyd Barrett will be happy to hear I yearn for a world where every enterprise was a social enterprise but we would not get very far with that. I mean that sincerely. I have been fortunate, since I became a Deputy, to be a voluntary board director of a social enterprise and it has educated me greatly on the not-for-profit model. However, we live in a world where private enterprise is...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have some sympathy for Deputy Boyd Barrett's point, and he and I sat on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight together over two Dáil terms. I know the Minister is aware of the following point but I want to throw it into the debate. I am beginning to hear advertisements on the radio again for financial institutions offering incentives for people to cash in part of their houses and take...