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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (6 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: As other Deputies have said, the Iranian authorities have introduced restrictions on free and uncensored Internet access, WhatsApp and Instagram. Again, the fundamental right to freedom of expression is being breached in this case. Two fundamental rights are being breached: the right to assemble and protest, and the right to freedom of expression. The Minister spoke about our EU...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (6 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom regarding the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48657/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (6 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the establishment of the independent radiation therapist review; if the recommendations of this review will be implemented particularly in respect of the recruitment and retention of radiation therapists, service improvements, and safe and adequate staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49241/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and the General Affairs Council: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: I thank the Minister of State for the update on these matters. I am sure he will join me in expressing sympathy to the family of Mr. Rory Mason from Dunboyne who was tragically killed while fighting for Ukraine last month. I listened to the tribute paid by his father this morning. He said that Rory had a deep sense of right and wrong and an inability to turn the other way. He was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff (11 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if incremental credit will be awarded to assistant and executive planners, as well as cognate professionals, within local government and analogous grades in the public service more widely given that incremental credit has been made available to other professionals; if all postgraduate experience will be allowed to qualify...

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

Seán Haughey: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new gaelscoil for primary school pupils will be provided in the Killester, Raheny, and Clontarf school planning area due to increasing demand for this type of education in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49506/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (11 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the income assessed subsidy under the national childcare scheme will be increased following Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49505/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (11 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the fostering allowance given that it has not changed since 2005; if an extra allowance can be given by Tusla for the fostering of children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49805/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 625. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate funding will be provided for trainee educational and child psychologists; if a working group to examine the funding of educational and child psychologists will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49504/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which the proposed average 25% reduction in fees for childcare users will apply to recipients of income-assessed national childcare scheme subsidies and those who only receive a universal subsidy; if the overall progressivity of NCS subsidies are retained after the new rates come into effect; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that has been made to date in advancing reforms to the operating model for childcare in Ireland; the timeline that he expects the proposed agency to be established by; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50386/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include ADHD inattentive on the long-term illness scheme for those aged 16 years and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50439/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [49949/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: Recently in the Dáil, the Taoiseach said with regard to negotiations between the EU and UK on the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol that the parties must now be given the space to do their work. The Minister for Foreign Affairs more or less said the same thing during Question Time earlier this month and suggested that the less said publicly on these matters in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: I nominate Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Expansion: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: I thank the ambassadors for taking the trouble to come to Dublin this morning. We really appreciate it. I assure them that our proceedings are being broadcast, so their contributions are being witnessed by many more people than are here this morning. Ireland supports European Union enlargement as a general principle, as was said. We believe in enlargement. When we joined the EU, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Expansion: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: Has the EU given Albania financial assistance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Expansion: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: I have two more questions for the witnesses, if they do not mind. What is the support for membership of the EU among the citizens of their countries? Is there strong support for membership of the EU? Is it uniform across both countries? I suspect it is not, based on the different groups that make up their societies, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Will the witnesses address the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Expansion: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Haughey: How do the witnesses explain the delay? Are there obstacles at European Council level to fast-tracking Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina's applications? I know the witnesses will be diplomatic but I am trying to ask who is not supporting Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina's applications at European Council level. If the witnesses do not want to answer that question directly, that is fine....