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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the basis for a recent decision in regard to home births (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56798/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (16 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers that were culled or vaccinated in each of the years 2019 to 2021. [56870/22]

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion which allows us the opportunity to ask the Minister of State and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, who was here before him, to urgently address many of the core concerns of retained firefighters. Retained firefighters need a fixed adequate income. The current retainer varies from about €9,000 per annum going up to a maximum of about...

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: Last Sunday I joined an energetic and happy group of people, mainly families, heading into in Atlantic Technological University Sligo, ATU Sligo, to attend one of the first programmes of Sligo Science Festival 2022. I could hardly believe the crowds and the real interest that so many people had in all of the different events from the exploration dome to the Its Like Magic but Real event,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I want to raise the inadequacy of the service provided by the pain clinic at Sligo University Hospital. Over the past two years, I have submitted a number of questions about this service and the most recent response stated that the HSE had received funding to establish the clinic on a permanent basis. Previously it was established on a pilot basis. However, 11 months after the pilot...

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: On behalf of the Independent Group I extend my heartfelt sympathy to the family and friends of Vicky Phelan. Death always comes too soon, but at 48 and after suffering so many years of pain, both physical and mental, it was just heart-breaking for Vicky, for her husband Jim, for her children Amelia and Darragh, for her wider family, and her friends in the 221+ support group. Vicky will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans that he has explored in order to introduce a new taxation policy on biofuels; if carbon tax will be applied to biofuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56635/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the number of carers in receipt of carer's allowance, including half-rate carer's allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of carer's allowance due to means; and the breakdown of these rates by the number of person's receiving a carer's allowance payment under...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the total number of carers in receipt of carer's benefit and half-rate carer's allowance. [56426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the total number of carers who received the carer's support grant to date in 2022; of these, the number of carers who receive the carer's support grant as a stand-alone payment, that is they do not receive carer's allowance, carer's benefit or DCA; and the number of carers who receive the carer's support...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase the percentage payment for the temporary business energy support scheme, TBESS, to SMEs that are highly energy-dependent and where their energy bills are a significant portion of their outgoings. [53732/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: Will the Minister consider increasing the percentage payment for the temporary business energy support scheme, specifically to SMEs that are highly energy-dependent and where their energy bills form a significant portion of their outgoings? I accept the Minister has moved to help businesses, but in truth, a lot of businesses are in trouble and the help is not enough. I also accept there are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I hear what the Minister said. He has to look after the money, as it were. We already know from many businesses that they are in trouble. The Minister knows that in his constituency, as I do in mine, businesses are closing. A very well-known butcher in Sligo closed one of its shops yesterday. They said it was because of increased electricity and operational costs. They are just one of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: What I am asking is that the Minister would keep it under review, because as I said, businesses are struggling. The Minister will be very well aware that even though he is bringing in this scheme and he decreased the VAT rate, the VAT payments on energy bills for most businesses is now greater, even at 9%, than it was a year or two ago. He has extra money. I want him to look at the reality...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Regional Group for tabling the motion on long Covid. I am pleased to be able to contribute to the debate because I have been contacted by many people who are unwell. Their lives have been turned upside down. They have gone from being fit and healthy to being sick and exhausted. People are searching for answers. They want their lives and their health back. Those people...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Special Educational Needs (9 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 of 15 February 2022, if she will include the CHO 1 area in the extension of the pilot of the school inclusion model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55681/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (9 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date for the publication of the Child Maintenance Review Group Report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55754/22]

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this timely and important motion. For many families, this is a priority. Indeed, many families are trying to provide home care either part time or full time and they find it exceptionally difficult to do so. Many are struggling. As more and more people live longer and demand for home care increases significantly, this is the issue. Everybody wants to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I again raise the issue of the large numbers of people waiting for beds at Sligo University Hospital, SUH. Since January of this year, SUH has had the third highest number of people waiting for beds. The headline for figures for Cork are worse, but bed capacity in Cork is more than twice that of Limerick so in real terms, in terms of capacity, SUH is second only to Limerick. Time and again...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the preferred option will be selected for approval on the section of road on the N17 between Castleoye and Temple House Crossroads, County Sligo; when the junctions on this section of road will be improved and made safer for local residents as was promised in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54834/22]