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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: I confirm that I am in Leinster House. I thank our witnesses for coming before the committee. A major opportunity has been presented to the committee and the witnesses, who have been kind enough to come before us, in the context of the challenge in the climate action targets that have been set. There are opportunities to close gaps in society when it comes to fairness. We spent some time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: -----in terms of viability for incomes, we simply cannot reach the targets being set for us and that we are now debating. I welcome the valuable suggestions being made, of which there have been quite a few. I will certainly be taking the coming week to assess the witnesses' opening statements and remarks, towards our report, which I know will be a helpful bookend to this part of the process...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: I am in Leinster House. I thank the witnesses for the interesting discussion. My camera has been off for most of the time, but I have been here listening to them all. On the point Deputy Devlin raised on retrofit, the advancement of the proposed one-stop shop for information for people right across the board, whether it is on EVs or retrofitting schemes, is something on which we need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: Mr. Mahon referenced it in relation to the energy efficiency changes to lighting, as in the bulbs. There might be a link with the infrastructure within the pole itself, as well as how it might be adapted for EV charging purposes, as has been the case in Fingal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: It occurs to me, given the work that has been done to upgrade the energy efficiency of lighting, that there is opportunity there. I have raised it because I feel that while there are complications with the provision of charging at lampposts, which will not work everywhere, if we press ahead with the upgrade and with the energy efficiency upgrades of all of these lampposts across the country...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Online Safety (20 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 75. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the efforts by her Department to address recommendations from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media that proposed an individual complaints mechanism for harmful online content with regard to the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 1429. To ask the Minister for Health if the vaccine certificate will be extended to persons who cannot accept the Covid-19 vaccine for legitimate medical reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63212/21]

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: I thank Deputy Costello for sharing his time. Since 1996, Women's Aid has reported the murders of 244 women, along with 18 children who have died with their mothers. Of the resolved cases involving those women, 89% of the victims knew their murderer, with the balance being strangers. Thousands of women are in supportive care, such as refuges, on a daily basis because of the nature of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes built in 2021; the projections for 2022 currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3342/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if commencement notices for new developments have increased in 2021; if so, the way that the increases compare with the previous three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health Services Staff (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the consideration that has been given to adding physiotherapists and occupational therapists to the critical skills occupations lists in order to ease demand in the healthcare sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3479/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts being made to expedite applications for a general employment permit in sectors in which labour demand is high; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3480/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current progress on DART+ projects; the expected progress for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3478/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a plan within his Department to encourage the Dublin Airport Authority to recommence the issuing of taxi permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Ireland’s engagement with the European Commission in relation to the Commission Work Programme 2021 and particularly the efforts to develop a new legislative proposal to prevent and combat gender-based violence against women and domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3475/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in an area (details supplied) that applied for funding for HEPA filters or similar ventilation systems; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of women and children who sought space in a domestic violence refuge in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3476/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 447. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that were provided a space in a domestic violence refuge service in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3477/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (25 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: 509. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the publication of the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3474/22]