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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: The Minister is quite correct. LEADER is not the only show in town but it is the only one that is community led. I will come back to what the Minister asks LEADER companies to deliver in their transition programmes. The Minister asks them to support rural business, especially in the context of innovation, diversification, Covid and Brexit. That is crucial in Border counties. LEADER...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: That is another issue.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Simon Communities of Ireland for all their good work on this legislation. I particularly thank the North West Simon Community for all its help to me in providing good information and background. This is a straightforward, practical proposal which does exactly what it says on the tin. Where the housing authority certifies that a tenant, who is under threat to quit, is at risk of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 122. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific supports that are available for the indoor play sector whose business has collapsed in recent days due to new Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59831/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Dental Services (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that VAT is not a barrier to ensuring uninterrupted access to affordable dental care (details supplied). [59832/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made on the inclusion of County Sligo in the defective concrete blocks grant scheme and the pyrite remediation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the alternative that will be offered to staff in job clubs and if those staff who do transfer across to the new regional employment service will be covered by the transfer of undertaking. [60575/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the transfer of undertakings directive will apply to workers currently employed in job clubs in cases in which they are offered employment by the successful bidders for the new local employment services. [60459/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 535. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the current shortfall of more than 100 nurse specialists in neurology in the Irish healthcare system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60051/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 536. To ask the Minister for Health when the current shortfall of nurse specialists in neurology in Sligo University Hospital (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60052/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 647. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is compensation available on designated land with an equine breeding programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59881/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Family Resource Centres (3 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 5. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to expand the family resource centre network; and if he will prioritise Manorhamilton, Country Leitrim as a location for a family resource centre. [59681/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Family Resource Centres (3 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: There are two family resource centres in Carrick-on-Shannon and Mohill in south Leitrim. I have been to both centres and was very impressed by the caring and inclusive way, they respond to the needs of families in their communities. However, in the entire north of County Leitrim, a distance of 62 km from Drumshanbo to Tullaghan, families have no access to the supports and resources provided...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Family Resource Centres (3 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. He said that the budget is not finalised yet. Both the Minister and I know that one of the most important aspects of family resource centres is that they are rooted in their communities, involve community participation and respond to the specific needs of families, especially in disadvantaged areas across the country. While the two centres in south Leitrim do really...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Family Resource Centres (3 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: The Minister has given me a positive but a very general answer. He has said that sometimes Tusla provides supports without family support centres. The Minister and I know that a family support centre provides holistic resources and supports to families within a geographical area, which is hugely important. Sometimes disadvantage can be harder to see in rural areas. It is more dispersed...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: Yesterday an Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation protest at Sligo University Hospital was averted at the last minute because there is to be an emergency meeting of the Workplace Relations Commission and an independent assessment of staffing requirements. We should never have allowed this situation to fester to this point. Today's Trolley Watch figures show a total of 25 patients waiting...

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: I thank Deputy Paul Murphy and People Before Profit for bringing this Bill before the House. It is a practical, down-to-earth Bill that will achieve real progress. I am pleased to hear that the Government supports the Bill in principle. However, I hope to see real urgency in progressing it. Earlier, the Minister of State, Deputy English, mentioned that there may be some legal...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Marian Harkin: Yes, we are. Tonight we are speaking of the value of community-led local development, of community knowledge, response and support to our long-term unemployed. The Minister’s proposal will undermine this community approach and replace it with a for-profit model that will not put the unemployed person at its core. This model will force the providers to provide inadequate services to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Nov 2021)

Marian Harkin: 138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the further supports being developed to enable the hospitality sector to function effectively while the pandemic persists; if he will consider supports for the implementation of an affordable ventilation scheme for this and other high-risk environments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58322/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Guidelines (25 Nov 2021)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He said peatlands can be damaged. He and I know that peatlands will be damaged by wind turbines. The Minister of State saw peat stability and the side of Shass Mountain. We built homes on floodplains in this country, thinking that we had ways and means of directing the movement of water. We cannot. The same is true of peat on the sides of...