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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (13 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending stamp duty relief to young trained farmers until December 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49945/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (13 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending stock relief until December 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49946/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (13 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 237. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if consideration will be given to the provision of additional rural working hubs in each rural town and village to enable remote workers to access social and technical facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49967/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the guests this morning for their presentation. I had better turn down my monitor. I had it on because I am due to speak in the Dáil. In respect of the roll-out of hubs in rural areas, which I know is not necessarily under the Department's remit, we now see a great delay in the roll-out of broadband connections. We are way off target. I wonder about ways to deal with that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: I am sorry for interrupting but my question was, as we are way behind in the broadband connection roll-out, do we now need to revisit the roll-out of hubs and put major effort into rolling out double the number in the group? That is my point.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: It is required because areas which were to be connected have not even been inspected. Can we not now prioritise the roll-out of hubs so that more people can get access? Since this plan was drafted two or three years ago, the whole landscape has changed because of Covid. We therefore need to review policy in both Mr. Griffin's Department and in the Department of Rural and Community...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: I am sorry but I can identify 25 parishes in rural areas of my constituency that do not have broadband and they are not even being inspected at the moment. They will not be touched until 2025. These areas are within an 18-mile radius of Cork city. That is the reason I am getting concerned about this. I fully accept that broadband is being rolled out in Carrigaline, Midleton and the areas...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: We have done that. Just as a start, I have identified three buildings. In one case, funding has already been secured from one of the local development companies, so the funding is available. We are finding that the response is extremely slow. This is an area in which, as I said, there are 900 children in the local primary schools. There are also a lot of people who are now working from...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (14 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 58. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of funding for remote digital hubs provided for in Budget 2021 that has been disbursed; if additional remote working hubs will be considered going forward in view of the fact that these facilities are vital for both urban and rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50014/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Broadband Plan (14 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 25. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll-out of broadband connection points; the number that have been connected to date by county; the number planned to be connected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50013/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will ensure e-cigarettes and other so-called risk products are taxed at the same rate as traditional cigarettes in the forthcoming review of the EU Tobacco Excise Directive to make them less attractive to young smokers following publication of data from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States of America showing disposable...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (20 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visa applications, citizenship applications and domestic residence permission applications that have been processed to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51546/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (20 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship applications and visa applications that were submitted in 2020; the number processed to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51547/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Gloster for his presentation and the information we have received. I may have missed some of the meeting because I was in the Dáil Chamber so I apologise if I go back over issues that have been discussed. I wish to talk about social workers and the demand on the system at the moment from various different areas of the Government agencies. Regarding the recruitment of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: In terms of the colleges, a number has been mentioned. Many different agencies need people with a social work qualification. Have the universities set out a reason they are not increasing the number of places available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: We have all come across people who are very good in youth work and a whole lot of other areas who do not have a qualification. We should open up opportunities for them to go back. What level of engagement has occurred with the universities on that issue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Is there room for further expansion in that area?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Regarding people leaving Tusla, are exit interviews and surveys carried out to allow people to outline the reasons they are leaving? Is information available in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: That would be helpful. I was involved in a project in Cork for many years that focused on young people who had dropped out of school. We reviewed the programme of training we were providing because An Garda Síochána referred many of the young people we worked with to us. We reviewed the people who had gone through the programme in earlier years to see how they had fared since....