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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the summer works scheme through category 10 of the scheme (external environments); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 3 November 2021, if the National Council for Special Education has provided her with information on the status of an application for expression of interest to establishment of an ASD classroom in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1355/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 21 October 2021, if her officials made contact with the school in question to rectify the issue raised; if this matter is now resolved (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2307/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider special contingency measures to allow expired Safe Pass registration cards, cards that had expired after 31 December 2021, to remain valid for an additional six months in order that the safety awareness registration card shall be regarded as valid until 30 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2308/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Communications (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 9 December 2021, if she can arrange for officials in her Department to meet and speak to the applicant (details supplied) to explain the decision-making process relating to Irish associations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1347/22]

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

Michael Lowry: 1594. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE has provided funding to a facility (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this facility has informed residents and their families that they require additional or emergency funding to guarantee the facility can remain open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1060/22]

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

Michael Lowry: 1639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite care centres expressly for children with disabilities and complex additional needs by county from January 2020 to the end of December 2021; the number of nights provided; the number of children who availed of respite services in these facilities; the number of facilities that remained open and that continued to provide respite care...

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

Michael Lowry: 1650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence from a healthcare establishment (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if he will consider the reintroduction of the temporary assistance payment scheme to healthcare establishments in 2022 considering additional infection control measures need to be sustained and healthcare institutions need to be supported to maintain...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1774. To ask the Minister for Health when he will meet with an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1781/22]

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

Michael Lowry: 1976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only 4,035 forestry licences were issued by his Department in 2021, which is well short of his Department's own target of 4,500 for 2021; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the figure of 4,035 is far below the of 7,000 licences the industry actually required;...

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

Michael Lowry: 1977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target number of forestry licences his Department plans to issue in 2022; if he plans to invest additional resources in the Forest Service in order to reach the 7,000 licences required annually by the industry given the well documented additional resources invested into the Forest Service in 2020 and 2021; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available regarding broadband at a location (details supplied): the steps taken in relation to full capacity fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband to this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3521/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available regarding satellite or mobile broadband at a location (details supplied); the steps taken to engage with satellite and mobile companies to provide a quality broadband connectivity to this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3522/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a campaign organised by a disability group (details supplied) to improve the availability and quality of parking bays for disabled users in local authority managed carparks and on street parking; if he plans to devise a national policy and or guidelines such that 5 % of total parking bay provision is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in the context of the campaign to improve the availability and quality of parking bays for disabled users, he has plans to ensure that disability parking bays are provided in line with international best standards, as set out in Building For Everyone: A Universal Design Approach (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will process an incremental credit claim from a teacher (details supplied) without delay given that such a delay in this case will cause financial hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3385/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 668. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reconstitution and underplanting scheme applications submitted to his Department in 2021; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that no approvals for the scheme were issued in 2021, given many section 5 exemptions were forwarded by farmers as requested by his Department; the reason no reconstitution and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 669. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licences issued in 2021; the total number of hectares planted; the number of afforestation licences issued by county; the number of hectares planted by county from January 2021 to December 2021; if he is satisfied with the number of hectares planted in 2021; his plans to expand afforestation in 2022; and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadband Infrastructure (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 712. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has made recent introductions between local authority broadband officers and satellite broadband companies regarding broadband connectivity at a location (details supplied); the options available in this area regarding alternative broadband services; the steps she has taken in terms of rural broadband for this...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: The stories of growing up in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s sound like fables to the young people of today. Life in those times revolved around the home and school, which were not always safe places. It was the era of children being seen but not heard. Poverty and hardship were rife and young people bore a significant brunt of the suffering. It was uncommon for young people to receive any...