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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I raise the urgent need to provide independent living accommodation for adults with intellectual disabilities in Manorhamilton in County Leitrim. The Taoiseach will not be familiar with the specifics, but I have emailed his office and the Minister of State with responsibility in this area, Deputy Rabbitte, with the facts. Seven years ago, a few families in Manorhamilton started working with...

Independent Beef Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: It has been obvious for decades that practices in the meat processing sector have created fortunes for factory owners, with continuing low incomes for all beef farmers from weighmen to sellers to finishers. Beef farmers have consistently been unable to earn a living wage and are only sustained by direct payments from CAP. Factory owners have acted in concert to keep prices to farmers down...

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I thank Deputy Brady for bringing forward this motion, to which I was happy to add my name. When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are no easy answers. If there were, we would have found them by now. A two-state solution is the only solution but it only works where there is trust. There is no trust. We have seen one UN Security Council resolution after another...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: Whoever said it was easier to lock down due to Covid rather than to open up was not wrong. We have, however, come to a point now where we must bite the bullet. All our actions take place in context and while the situation is fluid, the headlines around vaccination, hospitalisations, antigen testing, and now the EU green certificate, are all encouraging. Biting the bullet means that we now...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance the section or subsection of the Finance Act 2001 that grants the Revenue Commissioners VRT enforcement officers the power to offer and accept payment of a compromise penalty when the Revenue Commissioners have not received a notice of claim as specified by section 144(3)(a) of the Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28181/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of VRT warnings, detentions, seizures and compromise penalties in each of the years 2015 to 2020, in tabular form as outlined under sections 141, 144 (3)(a) and 153 of the Finance Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28182/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a specific plan to tackle family homelessness in the forthcoming Housing for All strategy; if the key issues and suggestions made in a strategy by an organisation (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28410/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: 288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to extend the Shannon–Erne waterway to the Erne estuary-Atlantic coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28036/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: 434. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the disability capacity review and the report by a company (details supplied) on the cost of disability will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27910/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: 563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the decision to weigh fish at the location they have been landed will be reconsidered given there are no facilities available to carry out same (details supplied); if his officials will discuss the matter with the fishing industry in order to find a workable solution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28233/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I appreciate the Chairman allowing me to intervene. Ms Nally answered the question on carbon credits and said that there is no policy or measure in place to trade carbon credits. Will the carbon credits be attributed to the agri sector? On the rewetting of bogs, as the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association liaised with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, on rehabilitation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: Ms Nally said in response to an earlier question on carbon credits that there is no policy and measure to trade carbon credits. Will whatever carbon credits there are be attributed to the agricultural sector?

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I am sharing the last three minutes with Deputy Fitzmaurice. Yesterday, at the start of my intervention, I welcomed this Bill and I thanked the Minister of State for bringing it forward. It is good legislation which protects the productive income from the farm or business and that is what is most important. My understanding is that if someone has been in care for over three years, once...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (20 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I will take Deputy Pringle's question and, with the Minister's permission, I will incorporate aspects of a question of my own on the same issue. Deputy Pringle asked about the plans in place for the development of LYIT. That is, obviously, in the context of the submission from the Connacht-Ulster Alliance, which includes Sligo IT, the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT, and LYIT. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (20 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. That was a lot of information in two minutes. As he said, we are in the final stages. The TUI is voting at the moment and nobody wants to pre-empt the result of that ballot but we can all be hopeful that we will have white smoke, perhaps by tonight or tomorrow morning. It is my understanding that the three governing bodies will meet tomorrow to submit their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (20 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister for saying there will be a cross-party approach that will include all Oireachtas Members from the area. Everyone is on the same footing here. Everybody recognises the considerable potential that the Connacht-Ulster Alliance could realise for the region. The Minister said that he cannot be clear on the timelines with regard to St. Angela's, and I understand that....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (20 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: To follow on from what the Deputy has said, what we are asking here, certainly what I am asking, is for the Government's position and the Minister's position on convergence. Is the Minister looking at a minimum or a maximum of 75%? As he knows, the Council put forward 85% and that was rejected by the Parliament, so we may be looking at more than that. What is the Minister's position and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (20 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the proposed reduction to farmers' entitlement values to create the EU eco-schemes fund will be subject to internal convergence. [26984/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (20 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I want to ask the Minister if the proposed eco-schemes in the new CAP will be subject to internal convergence and if there will be equality of access and opportunities for all farmers to the schemes. Will farmers get paid for what they do, as distinct from the current greening payment, which is linked to historical entitlements from more than 20 years ago?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (20 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: I understand that negotiations are still ongoing, and we have the super trilogues coming up. I am aware of the respective positions of the Council, the Parliament and the Commission. My question to the Minister is about the policy being pursued by the Government. What is Ireland's position in the Council on the eco-schemes? Does he support a flat-rate payment not connected in any way to...