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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on out of country placements (details supplied) for deaf persons in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41394/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: We know that fast-track planning is not delivering what it was intended to deliver, namely, houses for people. We know the strategic housing development, SHD, process is being used by speculators to avoid local area plans and county development plans and to lodge massive density applications with no amenities for local people. It is leading to a splurge of high-density, co-living, student...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (15 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the grounds and protocols on which home support hours are allocated. [41930/19]

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. It is a much more difficult task to have a go at him because his personality absorbs these kinds of things seamlessly.

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: We are depending on the Minister of State to pass on our comments to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. As my colleague, Deputy MacSharry, has said, the context for this debate is the worsening congestion in Dublin. As my party's Dublin spokesperson, I am conscious that congestion in the city is increasing on a daily and weekly basis. As the Minister of State is aware, Dublin...

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: They might be.

Social Welfare Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I wish to share time with Deputy Scanlon. Fianna Fáil will support the Bill, the purpose of which is to provide for the introduction of a new social insurance scheme to provide jobseeker's benefit for the self-employed. It will be payable to individuals who lose their self-employment and have the required number of PRSI contributions to qualify for payment. Fianna Fáil has...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I know the Tánaiste has other matters on his mind today but this needs to be reinforced. Deputies have mentioned motor, business and commercial residential insurance. This is beginning to bite in community facilities. The Minister, my constituency colleague, Deputy Zappone, will also know that Fettercairn Youth Horse Project has seen its public liability insurance rise to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Capital (22 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps which will be taken regarding the €500 million due to be paid into the rainy day fund in the event of an orderly Brexit. [43254/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: This matter has become extremely important for people in my constituency, Dublin South-West, which comprises areas which continue to be developed and in which there is ongoing construction in growing suburbs such as Ballycullen, Knocklyon, Citywest and Tallaght. I am grateful for the insight into some of the mysteries of An Bord Pleanála - they are mysteries to the public in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I will make it quick. Reference was made to local area plans. I have a specific question relating to Citywest. What if the local area plan is hopelessly out of date? In the Citywest area there was a local area plan dating from 2012. It never envisaged the density that has been applied for under the strategic housing development process. Now we have multiple planning applications for...

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: In accordance with Standing Order 70(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Thursday, 24 October 2019.

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (23 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: Seanad Éireann has passed the Family Law Bill 2019 without amendment.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (23 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of publicly funded electric car charging as opposed to charging points in residential and commercial business places points he envisages will be in place by end of each of the years 2020 to 2022; and the locations of same. [43670/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I thank my colleague for the opportunity to ask questions. What is the difference between flooding and rewetting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: Can Dr. Renou-Wilson elaborate on farming carbon?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: Dr. Renou-Wilson said that landowners should be encouraged to farm carbon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: Theoretically, the midlands bogs could to be used to farm carbon in this way and provide energy for the local community from those crops.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (24 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contacts and responses to date his Department has received from the ESB regarding a documentary (details supplied) earlier in 2019 in which it was revealed that the ESB had polluted the Dodder River as a result of poor maintenance of utility equipment and had shielded this from the public for many years; and if he...