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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: 116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans being put in place to address the findings of the cost of disability research report published on 7 December 2021; and the way in which it is proposed to reduce day-to-day costs for persons with a disability. [5724/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: As the Minister of State will know, Indecon produced a report on the cost of disability in Ireland at the end of last year. What policies is she putting in place to address the issues raised in that report?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister of State. We are all aware of the extra costs people face because of disability. Some of these are once-off costs and some are yearly but largely they are day-to-day and week-to-week costs. This report mentions everything from housing adaption costs to hearing aids, travel costs, utility bills, home help and so on. There is really good analysis of these extra costs in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: This is obviously a work in progress. I will bring two further issues to the Minister of State's attention. The first relates to the Housing for All strategy. Within that, there is a strategy for persons with disabilities. It tells us things like disabled people will be at the centre of decision making. That sounds fine but the question is how is that done and how is it managed? Does...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: Primary medical certificates.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: 336. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to increase the number of emergency refuge accommodation units for victims of domestic violence and their children. [5725/22]
- Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: I am happy to see this Bill reach the floor of the House because it is crucial that our legislation underpins and supports our modernised and vastly changed higher education system, our students who are in that system and all those who work in it. I also want to refer to the fact that yesterday we passed the Technological Universities Act, which approves the merger of Galway Mayo...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: I have listened to what the Minister of State said. She talked about the pipeline for jobs in Sligo remaining strong. However, the statistics show that is not the case. In 2017, the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation released a document looking at figures from the 2011 and 2016 censuses. This showed the lowest increase of any county in the country, 2%, was to be seen in Sligo....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: Do we have four minutes each?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: Apologies, I did not read my emails properly.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: One minute each.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: It is great to see the Sligo-Leitrim constituency so well represented by Deputy MacSharry and also by Deputy Kenny in raising this extremely important issue. I raised this issue with the Taoiseach yesterday and he agreed it was a hammer blow for the community in Collooney, with a population of approximately 1,700, to lose 80 jobs. It is a massive blow to the workers, their families and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Potential Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Role of the European Union: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: I was in the Dáil earlier. All politics is local so I was dealing with that so I missed most of the discussion for which I sincerely apologise. I did not hear the discussion about academic qualifications but I will gloss over that issue. I genuinely mean it when I say that I am sorry I did not hear all of the discussion. The witnesses spoke about the impact of the debate on joining...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Potential Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Role of the European Union: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: I have huge admiration for Professor Tonra. I have no authority to speak on behalf of the fishermen, and while I heard what Professor Tonra said, it is their fishing grounds and their livelihoods. It was a real hammer blow in addition to what has happened in the context of Brexit, as a result of which they lost part of their fishing grounds. It is a positive Irish tradition and part of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: I raise the shock announcement of the loss of 80 jobs at the B. Braun facility in Collooney in County Sligo. This is a hammer blow for the workers, their families and the entire community in Collooney, which is about 1,700 or 1,800 people. B. Braun has said it will retain a specialist research and development unit in Sligo so this may present an opportunity to resource and grow the research...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a resolution has been found on the provision of pensions for school secretaries since the recent progress made on their pay and conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4221/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Emergency Services (1 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: 272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Sligo Airport will be specifically named as one of the four bases in the new tender process for the national air-sea rescue service in line with the recent Cabinet decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4871/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: 554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are in place for persons aged over 66 years, who are still working and have to isolate due to Covid-19 symptoms as recommended by HSE guidelines, but due to their age do not qualify for enhanced illness benefit, but are still paying PAYE, PRSI and USC and will also not qualify for community welfare...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (1 Feb 2022)
Marian Harkin: 561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recommendation in the report by the Commission on Pensions published in October 2021, which seeks to impose PRSI on occupational pensions for those aged 66 years of age and over; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5086/22]
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Marian Harkin: In June 2020, then Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Richard Bruton, said that "All counties will see premises passed in the first two years and over 90% of premises in the State will have access to high-speed broadband within the next four". That would be mid-2024. If we talk about 90%, Leitrim County Council has confirmed that more than 90% of Leitrim...