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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I will raise the case of a person who spent five years of his early life in Nazareth House, Sligo. While his situation is unique to him, many others found themselves in the same circumstances so my ask is a general one. Nazareth House was an orphanage and care home but this person was not an orphan. Some three days after giving birth to him, his mother was forced to emigrate by her family,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Tánaiste and I us agree on the historical aspect. My question is about how the State in some way tries to compensate a little bit for some of the awful experiences of those children in its care. I looked at the review clause in the legislation and I am not sure there is actually a possibility to extend it. However, section 49 states that the Minister, in considering whether an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yes.

Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I may not use all of the eight minutes. I am here because I have known Dan Brennan for a long time. I am not a member of the agriculture committee. I congratulate its Chair and the various members of the committee for their tireless and unceasing work on this. It gives me great faith in the committee and in the workings of this House that we can get to this point. I will come back to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the proposed new Local Link bus service from Kinlough, County Leitrim to Grange, County Sligo via Ballintrillick; the timeline for when the service is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28347/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I listened to the Taoiseach's various responses on the totally unacceptable situation where workers at the NAS have no option but to strike. At the end of the four-day engagement last week, the highly respected independent chair put forward a proposal that was accepted by the union but not by management. There seems to be real intransigence on the part of management and the Department in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Time, Deputy.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: First, I welcome this legislation. It tackles a specific and important issue in regard to student accommodation. This is the requirement that students must be able to rent their accommodation for 41 weeks of the year whereas previously many students had to rent it for 51 weeks of every year. This was an extortionate practice by those accommodation providers who were trying to extract the...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: For more than eight years, the constituent whose name was best known in both my offices, in Brussels and in Sligo, was Lucia O'Farrell. I will be honest. At times I wondered how Lucia O'Farrell could keep going, but every time she contacted me I knew why. What astonished me was that each time she contacted my office the list of errors, mistakes, omissions, misjudgments, gaps in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I too welcome the lifting of the travel ban on Tori Towey. I recognise the fact that Sinn Féin raised the issue but I thank the Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs for their work in helping to ensure her release. The issue I wish to raise today, along with my colleague, Michael Fitzmaurice, is the fact that the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery recommended to...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: First of all, I extend my best wishes to Simon Coveney, who has announced that he will not run in the next general election. The reason I am doing so in this debate is that I knew Simon as an MEP and subsequently when he chaired the European Agriculture and Fisheries Council during the CAP negotiations in 2014. That was certainly a critical time for the future of the CAP and while I did not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the monies spent by the OPW in procuring lands, sites or houses of historical/archaeological significance, on either a county or a regional basis in the past ten years, in tabular form. [23800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 659. To ask the Minister for Health for a timeline on the provision of extra transport services to a day centre in County Sligo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29130/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Export Controls (10 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide assistance on an issue with regard to exports (details supplied); [30274/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (11 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures taken by his Department to support Irish hospitality businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30304/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase the central activities space, on a pro-rata basis, with the SEN base, in order to ensure adequate space for the actual number of pupils who will be using the central activities space; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30303/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of an urgently needed new school build (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (11 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the anti-competitive and crisis-era mortgage lending restrictions on credit unions as set out in regulations 12(2), 12(3) and 12A(1) of the Central Bank Statutory Instrument 1 of 2016. [30564/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (11 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the limitations on credit unions for business lending; and if this is in line with Government policy. [30568/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (11 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on competition in the mortgage market; and if the restrictions on credit union mortgage lending is negatively impacting competition following the exit of two banks (details supplied). [30565/24]