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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding the additional measures that he will implement to support persons and operations of the freight industry in response to the concerns raised by persons and operations in the freight industry about the increasing cost of fuel (details supplied); the measures that are being taken to alleviate the current fuel price crisis; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 19 October 2022, if she will request her Department to contact the consultants (details supplied) who are acting on this school's behalf given that members of the Board of Management of the school cannot advance the additional school accommodation application at this time due to the fact that the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 19 October 2022, if her Department will allow cover for teacher absences through the use of substitutes given that the school in question does not have supervision hours; the way in which the primary school can obtain permission from her Department to cover such absences through the substitute...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 6 October 2022, when a response will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53730/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided to deliver a town bus service in Clonmel, County Tipperary, given that Clonmel is now included in the ten-minute town project and that providing a town bus service for Clonmel would help to reduce the dominance of cars entering the town centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that all third level undergraduate and postgraduate students are not eligible for the reduction in fees of €1,000 announced in Budget 2023; the reason that a person (details supplied) who is studying in Limerick University will not benefit from the cost-of-living package for third level students; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 675. To ask the Minister for Health when all workers covered by the pandemic special recognition payment will receive their €1,000 payment; if a payment contractor has been appointed following the tendering process to obtain same; when further information will be published for those certain eligible non-HSE/non-Section 38 healthcare employees who are covered by the Government decision...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under the age of 18 years with an intellectual, physical or sensory disability, currently referred and waiting to be seen by an organisation (details supplied), which is the largest body outside of the HSE providing child disability services, broken down into north and south Tipperary for each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: Since 1965, the people of Templemore have enjoyed the use of the swimming pool at the Garda training college on Friday evenings after the college has closed to trainees. Generations of families have learned to swim in the pool and engage in water safety and life-saving classes. The pool is a much-valued asset to the town. The pool closed owing to pandemic restrictions, but, unlike other...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagements that he has had with his counterparts in fellow EU Member States about the possibility of the implementation in the European Union of Pillar Two of the OECD agreement on international taxation by means other than a directive which has been agreed unanimously by all Member States. [52091/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has conducted analysis of the potential impact on investment and Exchequer receipts of the minimum global rate of tax being adopted in Ireland, but not in one or more EU Member States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52092/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will rule out Ireland adopting the minimum global tax rate if an implementing directive is not agreed unanimously by all EU Member States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasons that the Office of Public Works will not provide a licence to access the swimming pool in the Garda college in Templemore in order that a person can provide swimming and water safety/lifesaving classes, which are considered essential life skills; if his attention has been drawn to a long tradition to allow access to this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an additional accommodation project for a school (details supplied) which is with her Department since October 2020; if she will request that her Department makes contact with consultants who are acting on the school's behalf and are still awaiting feedback from her Department since their meeting in July 2022...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to correspondence from a person (details supplied); her plans to address the concerns raised by this school principal; the measures that are being taken to alleviate the obstacles and alleviate the current crisis in obtaining substitute teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans to address the pay scales and current pay rates of the community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors, given the valuable and dedicated service that CE supervisors and assistant supervisors provide in running CE schemes and in delivering local based community services; the measures that are being taken...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to extend the remit of eligibility for work permits to bus drivers from third countries given the acute shortage of same within the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51772/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the substantial delays experienced by taxi operators when booking appointments to recalibrate and seal their meters for the new fare regime which came into force from 1 September 2022 (details supplied); the measures that are being taken to alleviate the obstacles in having additional appointments...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently seek a deadline extension to applicants who have received approval for funding through the eSPSV grant scheme to purchase an electric vehicle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51403/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 563. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an application for ECCE time extension exemption for a child (details supplied) which was refused will be reviewed on the basis that this child is waiting on an assessment with the child and disability team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51320/22]