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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 280. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31812/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with the next phase of their SOLAS apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31822/22]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank my Independent colleague, Deputy Connolly, for putting forward this motion and bringing focus to the necessity to fully restore respite care. The issue was highlighted during the pandemic. It was one of the many difficulties that were highlighted during the pandemic. Everybody was forced to live together as a family, which was all well and good but brought additional pressures to...

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I have listened to this debate with great interest. It concerns an issue I have raised previously in this House in the specific context of the difficulties of obtaining insurance for the fair on Spancil Hill. Thankfully, through the efforts of Clare County Council’s elected members and management, that has now been obtained, but I thank the Minister of State for his offer and the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32839/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (23 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when local authorities will receive funding (details supplied) to support emergency and planned upgrade works to group water schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33361/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: The witnesses have had detailed discussions and these are just the heads of Bill. If someone gets a grant of, for example, €100,000 or €150,000, will the Government subrogate to that extent or is it fully subrogated meaning that the person cannot pursue a claim? Do people need to give back the amount they receive and keep anything over and above it or is it that they cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: That is why I asked if there was any indication of an intention to pursue the suppliers of the concrete blocks?

Emergency Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I very much welcome the opportunity provided by Sinn Féin to discuss the rise in the cost of living and I thank the party for that. It was put to me in stark terms last night by the outgoing cathaoirleach of Clare County Council that if a single person living alone on the old age pension buys nothing else for three weeks, he or she can buy a half a tank of fuel. That is where we are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: There is a large discrepancy in what childcare providers are paid per child between large and very small childcare providers. Large providers are paid more per child. Usually the opposite is the case, for example, in Department of Education capitation fees, because the more children there are in a school, the cheaper it is to heat the school, provide additional staff supports per child and...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I doubt it.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I am slightly perplexed that we are here having the same debate we have year in, year out. Reviews of the Special Criminal Court have been carried out. In 2002 the committee to review the Special Criminal Court, headed by former Supreme Court judge and former Attorney General, Mr. Justice Hederman, reported. The majority in that found that the Special Criminal Court violated the normal...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: We do not have an appeals process here.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: No, they cannot. They certainly cannot.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: They certainly can not.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: They cannot appeal the decision to direct a trial in the Special Criminal Court. That is the point I am making.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I have no problem with that; it is to try them in a different court.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: The Minister is talking nonsense, with the greatest respect.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: Accuracy is the very least we can expect from the Department.