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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (24 Jan 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to extend the cost-of-living measures introduced in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2932/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the 9% VAT reduction for the tourism and hospitality industry further than the current expiry date in March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2931/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2023 (24 Jan 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cumulative cost of the measures taken since and including budget 2023 to help address cost-of-living issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2933/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Jan 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that claimed the help-to-buy scheme since its inception to purchase a home; the value of these claims, broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jan 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 606. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3206/23]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Last week, I spoke with a father pleading for sufficient care for his daughter's mental health. Thankfully, we got a bed for his daughter with the help of the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and her team. However, this is just one of hundreds of children's stories and it highlights the lack of services available for child mental health services in my constituency of Louth-East Meath. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: People wishing to avail of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme, which provides tax relief on the purchase of specially constructed or adapted vehicles for someone with a disability, are being rejected at community level and then left waiting for an appeal date due to the inaccessibility of a sitting board. To qualify, applicants have to obtain a primary medical certificate...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I thank the Taoiseach for his response but I remind everybody that three schemes were operating at one time. The other two schemes were suspended in 2013. It is now 2023 and these schemes have not been replaced, even though it was indicated at the time that alternatives would be devised. I understand that since December 2021, three previous members of the DDMBA have participated in a...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this crucial Bill and I unreservedly support its progress on Second Stage. Regrettably, already this year, we have seen a number of serious assaults on gardaí. An officer was assaulted at an anti-asylum seeker protest in County Cork on 19 January. A traffic garda had part of his finger bitten off in a vicious attack in Ballymun on Friday, 20...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: In November, addressing the issues of home ownership and emigration among young people, the Taoiseach, then Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, pledged to make home ownership affordable again, advising “what we can have is stronger Government interventions to help close the viability gap”. Last week, the European Central Bank raised its base rate of interest, taking it to a rate of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (9 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 61. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the changes he plans to implement in order to improve and to fulfil the rights of children and adults with disabilities, specifically in respect of access to assessment of need, AON, tests and required services come 1 March 2023, when the remit will transfer to his Department; and if he will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (9 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Will the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth outline the changes he plans to implement in order to improve and to fulfil the rights of children and adults with disabilities, specifically in respect of access to assessment of need tests and required services come 1 March 2023, when the remit will transfer to his Department, and will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (9 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Families of children with autism and moderate learning disabilities, dual diagnoses, are in crisis in counties Louth and Meath. I am aware of 15 families who have adolescent children with autism and moderate learning disabilities who urgently require a psychiatrist's review while being told by the HSE that that service is unavailable as there are no psychiatrists on the HSE team. In...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (9 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Minister knows and I know that the suicide rate in Ireland is probably one of the highest in Europe. I have parents coming to my office regularly. They go to CAMHS and everybody is trying to help, but they are not getting the help. What happens, as I mentioned a few weeks ago, is that parents end up taking their children to accident and emergency departments. If the child is 16 years...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 202. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the claims by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of international protection breaches in the context of accommodating newly arrived refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6397/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The military is in the grip of a staffing retention crisis following a mass exodus due to pay, pensions and conditions. Last November, the then Minister for Defence, Deputy Coveney, secured an extension of service for sergeants who had joined on post-1994 contracts and were due to retire on age grounds. One of my constituents is a 50-year-old private who has served for almost 29 years,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: -----personnel has fallen to below 8,000?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: This man is willing to work. He is medically fit. I ask the Taoiseach for action now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Why? It is only common sense to do so.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the spiralling cost of living, which is the biggest concern for my constituents coming into spring. Although income tax changes and the cost-of-living supports announced in budget 2023 aimed to protect households from the rising cost of living and the impact of inflation, a survey by Barnardos published earlier this week showed that one in ten people had...