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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Neale Richmond: Given that the Minister no longer meets the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for example, as regularly as he would have when the UK was part of the European Union, on an informal basis outside Council meetings or at various other opportunities, there is a need to fill that gap, both from a political point of view as well as an administrative point of view to ensure that engagement on an official...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Neale Richmond: Sin é. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire.

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this extremely important and timely debate. Reconciliation on these islands will be built through a shared desire to move forward to brighter days, but to do that, we must ensure all commitments are met, especially those contained in New Decade, New Approach. Despite this important agreement being reached not that long ago, many of its core...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Site Acquisition (1 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4688/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes made to relationships and sexuality education in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units delivered by each local authority under the buy and renew scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4333/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (1 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders commenced and completed by each local authority in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (1 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4335/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will meet next. [3070/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [4687/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: While I appreciate there are regular interventions and engagements between the Taoiseach and Ministers in a whole host of areas, it is slightly concerning that it has been a while since there has been a dedicated meeting of this Cabinet committee. It is important and I am glad to hear it is resuming at the end of the month. I very much hope by the end of the month that we still have an...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this important legislation. Since the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the elevation of its Minister to Cabinet ranking, this is probably the most important all-encompassing legislation to come to the floor of the Dáil. It is very easy to dwell on many different aspects of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: Over the last six years, the people of this island, particularly those in Northern Ireland, have been used as a political plaything by the forces that have driven Brexit. With the announcement last night of the suspension of checks and the rumours that the First Minister is due to resign, once again the people of Northern Ireland are being put at risk. A collapse of Stormont will see no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Potential Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Role of the European Union: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: I thank both professors for their very insightful presentations and their wider commentary. I was about to use the phrase "over recent days" but they have both been talking about this for quite some time, long before the most recent escalation activities. I will ask them both a couple of questions to begin. I then have individual questions for each of them that follow on from their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that victims of domestic violence can access rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5310/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Joint Labour Committees (3 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement that he has had with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to ensure the outcomes of the Joint Labour Committee process on the early years sector will be in a position to be supported by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5138/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: 146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons from Afghanistan that have been granted visa waivers to enter the Irish refugee protection programme given the present crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5137/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: The fault is probably all at my end, so I apologise to the Chairman and Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, for the messing about. There are three areas I want to ask about. The Minister of State referred to all of them in his opening remarks. I just want more elaboration and meat on the bones. The first point, which is pertinent, relates to commemorations and the important calendar of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Neale Richmond: I really appreciate that. There is heavy lifting in the literal sense and every other sense. It is a credit to the men and women in the Minister of State's Department. I would like to move on to an extremely topical issue to which the Minister of State referred in his opening remarks. It relates to the construction and installation by the OPW, in co-operation with the Revenue...