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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider expanding the remit of the mitigating against educational disadvantage fund to provide rent-related funding to support educationally disadvantaged learners in accessing and participating in third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding has been provided under the mitigating against educational disadvantage fund to support educationally disadvantaged learners in counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50096/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to continue providing support to the sheep welfare scheme into 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 788. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to increase participation of young farmers in the sheep welfare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49895/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 789. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be allocated to deliver a €30 ewe payment on all of the 2.7 million ewes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to strengthen the sheep sector and to ensure its viability, including the indigenous and export wool markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49897/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: My first question is on the prescriptions. What percentage of them are currently being processed on the NVPS? Would the Minister of State and the officials accept that vet-only prescribing will not meet regulations, because there will be no competition? Anyone with a grain of common sense can see that. There will not be competition and it will lead to less availability. Objective 5 of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: With regard to the number of prescriptions, not the number of vets, do we know what is the number or percentage of prescriptions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: Could I get that information in a reply to a parliamentary question to me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank Mr Collins. I would need that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: Would the vets not be supplying that information so the Department could get a picture to see it rolled out on a voluntary basis? Would it not have made sense to see how many prescriptions had gone through? What is the reason for not having this information?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Budget 2023 (12 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if residents of caravan parks may access the full €200 reduction off their energy bills (details supplied); if so, the way in which they may apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Budget 2023 (12 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options for redress open to prepay customers who were not provided with the €200 reduction off energy bills allocated in April, May and June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50518/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (12 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if churches and parishes halls will be able to avail of supports for the payment of their heating and energy costs under measures recently announced by Government, aimed at assisting those who may find themselves confronted with unsustainable energy bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50661/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for the briefing. Will she elaborate on the expansion of the primary substitute teacher supply panels? What will be the increase? On leaving certificate reform, there is concern about the moving of paper 1 to the end of fifth year in both Irish and English. I met representatives of Conradh na Gaeilge in September and there was concern that students may not be fully...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: My concern is that this could have the unintended consequence of students experiencing a greater level of stress arising from facing assessment over two years if they are now to sit paper 1 in both subjects in fifth year. Students who may want to go to the Gaeltacht in the summer of fifth year will be put at a disadvantage because, obviously, they will not have had time to do their stint in...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank Deputy McNamara for sharing time. In principal, this will be a very worthwhile Bill if it results in the strengthening of the capacity of Fáilte Ireland to support, promote and create employment actively in the tourism sector within the regions. There has to be balance and fair play. Some regions are certainly still developing their tourism strategy. They are very much in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Provisions (18 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that pensioners of an organisation (details supplied) and An Post who were civil servants prior to the vesting of these two state companies on 1 January 1984 under the Postal and Telecommunications Act 1983, are treated differently in their pension benefits; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (18 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all farmers with special areas of conservation lands will be entitled to apply for the scheme and be admitted to National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) farm plan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51150/22]