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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Schemes (25 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the 31 December 2021 deadline for companies to register for the employment wage subsidy scheme given that some companies experienced difficulties in accessing their accountant due to disruptions over the Christmas period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (25 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the management measures that the National Parks and Wildlife Service is putting in place to prevent further deterioration of the biodiversity at Lough Hyne, Skibbereen, west County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3530/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the criteria which are applied to means tested social welfare benefits such as disability allowance and medical cards takesinto account compensation payment the recipient may have received from the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3531/22]

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

Christopher O'Sullivan: 656. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include home support workers and staff who work in the disability service sector in the recognition payment of €1,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3529/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (20 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Castletownbere.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (20 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I raise the issue of the Cope Foundation facility in Bandon, which is closed at the moment, and the impact this is having on the Cope facility in Clonakilty. As the Minister of State knows well, at the start of Covid disability services were scaled back and closed in certain instances. The Minister of State fought really hard to ensure that those facilities were reopened to the fullest...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (20 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. I am delighted with what she has said. She hit the nail on the head and mirrored exactly what Liam's family said to me before I came into the Chamber, namely, that Liam does not have a voice. He needs a voice and people like him need a voice. The Minister of State is right that if the same thing was happening to someone who was able to articulate issues, it...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (20 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate the ongoing issue with flooding at Faxbridge roundabout in Clonakilty, County Cork following on from the OPW works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 96. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her strategy to ensure that environmental sustainability will be a core component of the recovery of the tourism sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 143. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the strategy to support sustainable tourism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2495/22]

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

Christopher O'Sullivan: 302. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to reducing the VAT on building supplies to help with the cost of building new homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (19 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 1447. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the current waitlist for parents and guardians waiting on an AON assessment; the steps that are being taken to improve these wait times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 1540. To ask the Minister for Health when the day care centre at Clonakilty Community Hospital will return to normal service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63521/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 1964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the current round of TAMS 2014-2021 who were successful in acquiring funds for equine housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63287/21]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: EU Digital Services Package and the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Chair and the witnesses for coming before us today and informing us on what is happening in regard to the DSA in particular. I have two questions. The first relates directly to the DSA. It might potentially mirror what Senator Byrne asked about. Ms Quill stated, "The Digital Services Act, DSA, envisages the creation of networks of digital regulators at both EU and national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. There are always incredibly interesting contributions when academics and scientists appear before the committee. There is so much to learn. I will pick up on something Professor Sweeney said on the fact that the climate emergency was only referenced once. I assure him that everybody on this committee and, I am sure, the CCAC realises that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I will wrap up on that. The witnesses yesterday referenced that the second budget period reduction of 8.3% could possibly be adjusted upwards to achieve greater reductions in that period because of developments in areas such as wind energy. Professor Sweeney referenced a 33% figure for agriculture, which would leave a 60% "burden" for the rest of society. When we talk about 80%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Does Professor McMullin disagree with the council basing that 4.8% on social, economic and just transition factors? This was the question we put to Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir yesterday. Those factors are what it based that first trajectory period on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I do not think that anyone is suggesting that a transition will be easy. I think we all appreciate that it will be incredibly difficult.