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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to take the necessary steps to ensure that eligibility for housing subsidies is based on available household income after deduction of essential household expenditure such as health expenses, energy and heating expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7041/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will fund a public awareness campaign to increase awareness of private residential tenancies legislation among older renters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7042/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give due consideration to increased ring fencing of social housing for older people in light of the particular difficulties experienced by this cohort in the private rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7043/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he take the necessary steps to ensure that 25% of social housing is reserved for older renters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7044/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to take the necessary steps to increase investment and evaluation of and development of promising housing models for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7045/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will allocate funding to invest in research for the purposes of collating age related, tenure specific data to better understand and predict the needs of older renters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7046/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to increase investment in the housing adaption grant scheme and to provide incentives to private landlords to apply for same, similar to tax deductions granted to small scale landlords who undertake retrofitting works while tenants remain in situ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7048/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to work with the relevant bodies to ensure higher levels of compliance with accommodation quality standards in the private rental sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7050/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to invest in alternative, secure and age appropriate housing for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to reviewing the housing assistance payment and rent supplement on an annual basis to ensure that the subsidy increases match increases in the private rental sector market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7049/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to benchmarking the State pension, to ensure that older people do in the private rental sector do not experience undue hardship in the context of rent affordability and expenditure on critical items such as heating electricity and healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

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

Colm Burke: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when ACRES-CP payments to farmers in the scheme for 2023 will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7099/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The Minister of State mentioned how one in five children in primary school is obese. If so, there needs to be messaging, not only to students, but also to parents. How do we communicate this to parents as well? Obviously, we are not succeeding in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Coming back to the issue of primary schools, is there a programme about messaging parents? Messaging is happening in the schools, but what about messaging parents directly through the schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I have encountered another issue. A number of times, GPs have told me about people attending their practices with children who are totally overweight and about how there is a reluctance to have that discussion with the parents. I have heard from GPs about parents moving practices because the GPs raised the issue. What are we doing to help GP practices get the message across to parents as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: We went through a difficult time during Covid, but we now need to focus more. We are lucky in Ireland. People might criticise the health system, but our life expectancy is one of the best across Europe. We cannot just sit at that point, though. We need to do more to help people deal with this situation. I wish to touch on the matter of drinking at home. We had a great deal of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: On messaging, sports organisations have been successful in advising players that it is not only a question of exercise and training for matches, it is also about nutrition programmes, what food they should be eating and so on. We do not seem to have translated that into our schools or out among the public. Sports clubs have done a good job on the issue, so perhaps we could learn from them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State and the Department for the work they are doing. We were talking about obesity and messaging earlier. I was looking at a social media post by a cardiologist, Dr. Paddy Barrett, who was saying there is quite a misunderstanding about weight loss and nutrition, and that while people are talking about cutting back on food, it is not planned and, therefore, there is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (13 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action her Department is taking to deal with recruitment challenges of bus drivers under the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6378/24]