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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (23 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies in place to offer enhanced mental health supports for primary and secondary students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57290/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (23 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies to support children and young persons who are at risk of the highest levels of educational disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57291/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the changes to the carer’s allowance means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58004/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: The problem that confronts me here is to combine my loyalty, affection and respect for the Minister as a colleague with the criticism which he knows I have of the previous process. One of the previous speakers suggested this was a U-turn in Government policy. As a Fianna Fáil Deputy, I can say this is not a U-turn in Government policy. This is Fianna Fáil putting its stamp on...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: We did not support it, actually. It was stitched into the programme for Government. I wish we had outlawed SHDs from the start. However, this legislation appears to do it. I was concerned that a Government press release about its legislative programme and what it was prioritising for autumn term - I welcome that this Bill has been prioritised - stated that the legislation would see a...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: It was a Fianna Fáil commitment in that regard. I have heard the Deputy speak passionately about this and I acknowledge that he supports such action. There are a few amendments I would like considered as well but the bottom line is that an unsuccessful, disastrous policy is being brought to an end by a Fianna Fáil Minister with responsibility for housing. The House should at...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons availing of the fuel allowance, by main social welfare payment, in tabular form; her plans to extend eligibility for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58005/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her assessment of the recent rise in fraud crime. [57818/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken to deal with the increase in domestic violence during the pandemic. [57819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request statistical information from the Garda Commissioner on the number of instances of spiking that have taken place to date in 2021; if she will request the views of the Commissioner in this regard; if such spiking took place in the form of an injection into the body of a third-party by syringe; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances of spiking, including either physical spiking of a person, perhaps through syringe into a part of the body, or of spiking of a drink, that have resulted in presentations at emergency departments in hospitals, by hospital, in tabular form; and the presenting symptoms of the patients to emergency departments in this regard. [58096/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies to encourage and support students of DEIS schools to access third-level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58627/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mental health supports and strategies in place to support students in further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58628/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: What about the Road Runner?

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have some sympathy for Deputy Boyd Barrett's point, and he and I sat on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight together over two Dáil terms. I know the Minister is aware of the following point but I want to throw it into the debate. I am beginning to hear advertisements on the radio again for financial institutions offering incentives for people to cash in part of their houses and take...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Deputy Boyd Barrett will be happy to hear I yearn for a world where every enterprise was a social enterprise but we would not get very far with that. I mean that sincerely. I have been fortunate, since I became a Deputy, to be a voluntary board director of a social enterprise and it has educated me greatly on the not-for-profit model. However, we live in a world where private enterprise is...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: In my own modest way, I was a big believer in and proponent of the rainy-day fund on the Joint Committee on Budgetary Oversight. With regard to what Deputy Doherty said, if there is to be some kind of a windfall, for want of a better term, as a result of this increase in the standard rate of corporation tax, how do we marry that with the consistent commentary by IFAC, the Economic and Social...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I apologise. I was not watching the clock.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have a lot of sympathy with what the Deputy said about rebalancing this. It is important for the Minister to outline the economic context that initiated this process. Entities such as the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, and indigenous pension funds such as An Post that invested in some these organisations. I am of the view that so much momentum has now been gained, particularly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Poverty (3 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 16. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures announced as part of budget 2022 to prevent and alleviate poverty during childhood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59459/21]