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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Sports Organisations (2 Jul 2024)

John Lahart: 143. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will detail the circumstances allowing sports organisations operating on the Curragh Plains in County Kildare to fence in their facilities, as in the case of three organisations (details supplied); if it was a condition attached to permission to fence that the clubs acquire a number of sheep grazing rights in order to proceed with the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister for taking the question. On a similar theme, Members may be aware that I chair an informal all-party Oireachtas committee on rare diseases. We held one of our regular meetings yesterday. Ireland used to be a world leader in newborn blood screening, or the heel-prick test as Deputy Tully referred to it. Countries in eastern Europe seem to have leapfrogged us...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the allocation of SNAs for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27092/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project (details supplied) which was granted permission on appeal by An Bord Pleanála in 2021 and to make a statement on when she anticipates that building works can be approved by her Department; and when it ought to commence [27113/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (25 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the details of the €31.9 million urban regeneration and development fund for several projects in Tallaght town; and the projects on which this money has been spent. [27111/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 208. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the availability of the drug skyrizi (risankizumab-rzaa) for patients with severe Crohn’s disease, given the delays due to price negotiations and its current availability in the UK and Europe. [26650/24]

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: I will continue where Deputy Flaherty left off. My focus is on what my constituents would like to see on the issue of migration and the enforcement of rules, and what kind of system in Ireland would give them confidence. Our parliamentary party had detailed discussions on this a few months ago and came up with a lot of suggestions. They were humanitarian-based, reasonable and formed the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will confirm that talks or communications have taken place with Dublin Bus and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a solution to the problem of Dublin Bus servicing the Crooksling area (details supplied); what those solutions will be; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26049/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Safety (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an engineer from her Department's primary school section visits a school (details supplied), with a view to assisting the school in designing a safe parking scheme given it is located on a rural country road; and if the provision of funding for same will be considered. [26050/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding can be provided to a school (details supplied) to cover the cost of landscaping and maintenance, given that every school receives the same amount of capitation per head, but some schools have significantly greater overheads compared to others, and this particular school has extensive grounds and trees that have to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the grants for furniture and IT equipment, which form part of the new build which was completed and opened officially last year at a school (details supplied), will be provided to the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26115/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given that United Nations Article 9 mentions accessible pathways for all when it comes to education, she will agree that accessible public buildings are vital for young children; if she will she approve the request from a school (details supplied) which has a child with disabilities who requires wheelchair use, has been requested by her...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the number of primary schools in the diocese of Dublin that are running deficits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26126/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider allocating further funding of €10,000 to a school in view of the additional costs associated with their new classroom (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26147/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the letter of intent issued to a school (details supplied) for which there has been no movement since its issuance some months ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26170/24]

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: I support the Tánaiste's position. I remember as a young man sitting in the Gallery when the late Brian Lenihan senior, a former Minister for Defence, introduced the legislation that allowed for PDFORRA and the representative piece. Many of the same arguments were being made then about allowing the Army a representative voice on general human resource issues, conciliation issues and...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (11 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 105.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if as some media reports suggest, Ireland pays an Israeli government owned weapons company (details supplied) €295,000 each year to maintain drones bought from it, which the same company supplying aerial vehicles and drones being used to kill Palestinian people in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24982/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 182.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the hospitality VAT rate given restaurants and cafés are struggling to survive (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24985/24]