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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (11 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 172. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to an incident (details supplied) in a direct provision centre; if he has launched an investigation into the incident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35691/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve micromobility infrastructure in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35771/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: I acknowledge the huge investment this week in cycling infrastructure throughout the country. It is the largest ever investment in this area on behalf of the State and there is more to come. There has never been a greater opportunity to move ahead with the provision of cycling infrastructure in terms of public goodwill and support and, more specifically, the public appetite for such...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: I am asking about micromobility infrastructure.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge that I am pushing an open door. The directly-elected mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, introduced and appointed a cycling commissioner, Chris Boardman, the first UK Olympian to win a medal for cycling, which he did at the Barcelona Olympics. The Minister could do worse than to consider the appointment of a micromobility commissioner for Dublin. Such a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: Perhaps we will come back to that issue another day. Returning to the legislation, pedestrians give out about cyclists, cyclists give out about car drivers and car drivers give out about heavy goods vehicles. We should legislate for a hierarchy of responsibility so that truck and bus drivers would be responsible for smaller motor vehicles, cars would be responsible for smaller vehicles such...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects (12 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the feasibility study into bringing the metro to south-western areas of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35765/20]

Road Traffic (All-Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motorcycle) (Amendment) Bill 2020: First Stage (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961 to further regulate the use of all-terrain vehicles and scrambler motorcycles in a public place, to make further provision for the seizure, by An Garda Síochána, of said vehicles and motorcycles in certain circumstances, to provide for the confiscation and disposal of same when a...

Road Traffic (All-Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motorcycle) (Amendment) Bill 2020: First Stage (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 79. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if personnel in full-time induction training can now be deployed on military service; and if they will now be paid the military service allowance. [36618/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 82. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress in acquiring a strategic airlift capability, particularly in view of recent difficulties and delays on UN rotations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36617/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expenditure on health, social welfare and education as a share of GNI* for 2019 and 2020; the estimate for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36664/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projections for gas imports in the next decade; the main source of gas imported here; if the use of indigenous resources has been considered as opposed to imported gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36178/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the targets set to ensure the national 2050 climate objective as set out in the climate action Bill is being achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36179/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Services (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 680. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services in Budget 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36948/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 727. To ask the Minister for Health when a primary care centre (details supplied) is due to open; the services that will be provided at the centre; the estimated number of jobs that will be created at the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36315/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (17 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: 831. To ask the Minister for Health if the national services development plan will commence in 2020; if so, if it will be led by an organisation (details supplied); if the plan will be evidence-based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36949/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (18 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: I had texted the clerk about membership of the mental health subcommittee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (18 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: I am on that subcommittee. I wish to raise two other things relating to the Irish Pharmacy Union and narcolepsy. The committee may have discussed this with the organisations. Are they on the agenda?