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Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: Ní bheidh mé ag tógáil an ama go léir. Tá áthas orm labhairt ar an mBille seo inniu. All of us will have received the assessment of the Bill's strengths and weaknesses from GSOC. I hope the analysis will inform the debate and the Government's approach to any amendments that may be made to this important Bill. GSOC has stated that its primary concern is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: The crisis within children’s disability network teams, CDNTs, is well known to all of us. Major problems around recruitment and retention have practically become embedded within the system. I was shocked by information I received from the HSE’s disability services yesterday. It reveals how stark the crisis has become across all nine community healthcare organisation, CHO,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Tánaiste for his response but I believe serious urgency is needed here with what has happened. The HSE has confirmed that in CHO 8, some 3,129 children are waiting between three and 12 months. Those children are being failed. The Tánaiste has outlined the measures which are being taken and I acknowledge them. However, the HSE has confirmed to me that from an overall...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the efforts being made to implement the working time directive for members of the Defence Forces; if he will address concerns from serving personnel that the military management and his Department are seeking significant exemptions to the implementation of the Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14429/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: I wish to ask the Tánaiste, in his role as Minister for Defence, to set out what efforts are being made to implement the working time directive. What is being done to address the serious and legitimate concerns of serving personnel regarding the implementation of the directive? They are concerned that military management and the Department of Defence are seeking significant exemptions...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. I note he said earlier to another Deputy that there was engagement on this very issue. He also said he would take decisions if it dragged on, which unfortunately it has. Serving personnel are becoming very frustrated, demoralised and concerned about the significant exemptions being sought by military management and the Department of Defence, as I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: I met serving and retired Defence Forces members who articulated the concerns I have outlined this morning. I do not believe it is a case of "negativity being articulated". The fact of the matter is there are outstanding issues which have gone on for too long. There is demoralisation, a sense of feeling demoralised and a strong sense of frustration. These matters must be addressed in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is an agreement between the UK Government, the UK Ministry of Defence, and the Irish Government in regard to UK aircraft and vessels entering Irish sovereign airspace and territorial waters, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14428/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: The upcoming European Council meeting will discuss, among other issues and items on the agenda, the ongoing war in Ukraine and energy prices. We know the energy price crisis here is ongoing despite the recalibrated temporary business energy support scheme, TBESS. I also know from replies to parliamentary questions I submitted to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 47. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 7 March 2023, the amount received in honoraria or expenses by chairs of all previous citizens assemblies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14047/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 7 March 2023, the projected revenue in a full year of a return to a 13.5% VAT rate for the hospitality sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14048/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Bodies (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the projected costs arising from his decision to join the State in EU Commission enforcement proceedings against Hungary; if he will list all previous cases in which the State has joined EU Commission litigation as a plaintiff against another member state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14046/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance who have been in receipt of either allowance continuously since 2019; the breakdown of these recipients, by age and county of residence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14053/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost to the State in legal fees and settlements of all cases taken to date by current and former prisoners in relation to the practice of slopping out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14049/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people employed by the Health Service Executive at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14050/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 242. To ask the Minister for Health the number of employees of the Health Service Executive who have been on sick leave for a continuous period of longer than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14051/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of employees of the Health Service Executive who were on sick leave, but whose employment was terminated for failing to return to work having been assessed that they are fit enough to do so, from the establishment of the HSE to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14052/23]

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. It provides for the further extension of six agri-tax reliefs currently due to expire on 30 June 2023, and that extension is certainly welcome. In the brief time I have I will focus on just two sections of the Bill. The first is section 2. It provides for amendments to the rates of mineral oil tax, MOT, and for an extension to the current VAT...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Provisions (21 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if An Post has sought his approval for the payment of a 2% increase to its pensioners from 1 January 2023; if he has not received the relevant request, when he expects to receive it; when it is intended to pay the increase which has already been paid to existing employees of the company and is significantly below CPI;...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address concerns that an approved body operating a farm plastic scheme (details supplied) which may be operating sites in counties Kerry, Cavan, Kilkenny, Mayo which has farm plastic stored loosely held for more than the required time, and is piled in such a manner as to potentially be in contravention of...