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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the measures that are being taken to prevent flooding along the river Shannon, in particular for the midlands region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5323/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Bodies (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 253. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the work of the cross-departmental international sanctions committee, CDISC, which is chaired by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5338/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the schools in counties Laois and Offaly that have lodged applications to her Department for assistance in increasing building capacity; the status of these applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5403/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of PPS numbers allocated by her Department to beneficiaries of temporary protection and to international protection applicants from March 2022, to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5339/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total payments made by her Department to beneficiaries of temporary protection and international protection applicants, including the jobseeker’s allowance, child benefit, fuel allowance, exceptional needs’ payments, and so on, from March 2022 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5340/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gender Recognition (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has taken note of a statement (details supplied) issued in the past number of days by the UK secretary of state for justice; if he will consider introducing such a policy in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5343/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 388. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have taken note of the decision by the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to cease offering a third Covid booster jab to persons aged 16 to 49 years who are not in a clinical risk group at the close of the autumn 2022 vaccination campaign; if he will support such a policy here; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 435. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if Ballycumber, County Offaly is an area eligible for a season of CLÁR funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5324/23]

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak during this important debate. I support the call in the motion for Government to introduce timely, targeted and temporary mortgage interest relief to support homeowners facing significant increases in their mortgage costs. I also support the call on Government to work with the Central Bank to enhance the supervision of vulture funds in the interests of...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for her briefing on the various issues. I welcome that class sizes are to be reduced again. Speaking as a former teacher, you cannot teach effectively and meet children's needs and the various abilities found in a classroom when it is a crowded. As such, the reduction is welcome. I also welcome the free schoolbooks initiative. It is a great initiative and one that I...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: Is the nearest school rule being examined?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: As the Minister knows, many families are grappling with the cost of living, especially the cost of fuel. There is huge anxiety and concern about the fuel costs that motorists, farmers and hauliers, who cannot plan for the future, are paying at present. Will the Government extend the excise duty reduction we currently have? We are hearing mixed messages from the Government. It appears the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns relating to the lack of home economics teachers and the lack of provision for upskilling available to home economics teachers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6328/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on the costs incurred in transporting asylum applicants and beneficiaries of temporary protection to reception centres, accommodation units and emergency accommodation centres located throughout the State from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6255/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 215. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department collects data on PPS numbers assigned to international protection applicants; if so, if he will provide the number of PPS numbers assigned from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6308/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to bring the decades-long delay regarding the N80 Mountmellick relief road to a final resolution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5920/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland has indicated to his Department any intention to prevent the development of the N80 Mountmellick relief road project because it does not align with the Government’s climate action ambition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5921/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated savings that have accrued to print and digital newspapers following the decision to apply a zero-rate of VAT to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5716/23]