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Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if a circular (details supplied) applied to the HSE and other departments of health-funded agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39575/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Go raibh maith agat, a Thánaiste. Leanfaimid ar aghaidh leis an Aire, an Teachta Roderic O'Gorman.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Just one speaker, Deputy Stanley.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Deputy Mac Lochlainn, there is one speaker please. Le do thoil.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 17. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early learning and childcare facilities in the mid-Cork region that have withdrawn from Core funding this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39145/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 31. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the national childcare scheme will be open to childminders who are not registered with Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39146/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 Oct 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options available to install an EV charging point outside a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38680/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (26 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date position on the single application procedure for a combined employment and residence permit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when local community safety partnerships will be established in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mental Health Policy (26 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider establishing a specific farmer's mental health strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38175/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the child benefit payment to assist families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37624/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: My question relates to the rate of child benefit payment per child and whether there is an opportunity to have it increased to support families who are under pressure. When the payment was first introduced, it was a useful step in tackling child poverty. Can the rate of child benefit be increased in the forthcoming budget?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I acknowledge the huge step that was taken in allowing full-time students to hold on to child benefit. I had raised the issue with the Minister, as did many of my colleagues. It was a positive move that it was included in the budget. The one-off payments are just that. They are not ongoing over the years. When child benefit was originally introduced in the 1940s, it had a huge impact...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I will focus on the particular group who do not qualify for the various social welfare payments such as child dependant payments. Child benefit is probably the only social welfare payment going into the house and it is a hugely significant part of the overall household budget. It has not been increased in many years from the €140 rate. If she were to make a change in that, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister. The modifications that were made were very beneficial, especially for people who are caring for children throughout much of their life. This situation arises for people who take on a caring role later in life, in their 40s, 50s and 60s. I would welcome an opportunity to review the scheme and include it in any of the next steps that will be taken. Is there any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider reducing the current 20-year minimum criterion of full-time caring to an incapacitated person under the long-term carers contribution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37625/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: This question relates to people taking time from work to care, very often for family members, and enabling them to qualify for a pension. There are situations involving older people in particular who take time off later in their career who cannot fulfil the 20-year criterion by the time they reach pension age.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I acknowledge that a great effort has been made and that it does work for so many people who were carrying out that hugely important caring role, but there are situations that arise where a person cannot make up 20 years. Those cases very likely involve people who took on the caring role later in life – in their 40s, 50s or later – and they cannot make up the 20 years by the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Will the Minister review the situation for them?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for consideration in providing a greenway from a village to a forest park (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37753/24]