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Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I welcome the Minister's welcome of questions because I have a couple in that regard. While I do not have a problem with the State's policy of taxing tobacco products and trying to discourage people from smoking, I would question at what point it becomes counterproductive, in that taxing cigarettes just means people are going to smoke imported cigarettes or that there is a far greater...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: At best, those are estimates. At what point does it become counterproductive? Maybe the 75 cent is merely due to inflation, given how rampant inflation has been. We say that taxation is working and is stopping people from smoking but how do we know it is the taxation that is stopping people from smoking rather than the Government health warnings? Even unhealthy people like me are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (10 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason weddings are allowed at some OPW sites but not at Corcomroe Abbey, County Clare; the reason his office felt the need to post a notice to that effect at the site of Corcomroe Abbey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43570/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (10 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 548. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43947/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in each local authority area in 2022. [44252/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the difference in the figures contained on his Department's website in relation to housing market statistics (details supplied) in the columns entitled dwellings inspected and total inspections carried out; and if he will provide more details on the different inspections referred to under each of the said...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (11 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application form for a sight test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44342/23]

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: Last week and during the weekend, there was a lot of talk about a certain Minister being thrown under a bus. I think that is misconceived. Ministers do not go near buses. They are driven around. People get thrown under buses, in particular the people of the mid-west. One in five of the people on trolleys across the country are in the mid-west. There are 104 today. The Taoiseach visited...

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I am very happy to share with my colleague or any number of colleagues who wish to have time because I simply have not formulated my thoughts on this. It seems quite clear to me that there has been an increase in excess mortality rates but I have no idea why. Various reasons are posited, some conspiratorial and others not. Deputy Paul Murphy might not wish me to join him in anything but I...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (17 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 653. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the men’s shed sustainability grant of €2,000 is still available from her Department to assist with the running costs of the sheds and acquiring material for developing skills for the shedders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45199/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 281. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent appointment to have both cataract surgeries completed at University Hospital Limerick, given that this person is waiting since last March and has practically no sight in either eye; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45729/23]

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I would like to ask the two Government representatives if either of them heard Marie McMahon from the mid-west hospital action group on "Morning Ireland" saying that people were afraid to go to hospital. I do not know whether that is news to them, but it is not news to me because it is something I, my family, neighbours and friends have lived for quite some time. A very close elderly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an ndéanfaidh sí cur síos ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le bunú Gaelcholáiste neamhspleách in Inis, Co. an Chláir ón 23 Márta 2023 i leith, tráth a rinne sí cur síos ar an dul chun cinn go dtí an dáta sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 26 September 2023, if she will expedite an additional school accommodation application for a school in County Clare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a domiciliary care allowance appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46558/23]

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wish to speak on behalf of the motion and against the Government's amendment. I listened very carefully to what the Tánaiste had to say before he quickly departed the Chamber. It seems to me that he has offered no reason whatsoever as to why the Government is not prepared to even accept Ireland's traditional position of neutrality and encapsulate that in the countermotion, as Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I want to raise again the mess that is University Hospital Limerick. This morning, day surgeries were cancelled in Ennis because no patients arrived. It appears that nobody told the surgical team though. The urology surgical team, anaesthetists and nurses were all waiting for patients but none arrived. It seems to be an incredibly bad use of scarce resources. It is not unique,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether or not hospital consultants or treating physicians received a payment in any of the past ten years for switching patients from brand name medicines to generic medicines; if he will list the amounts paid to individual consultants if any such payments were made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46448/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wonder if the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach would indulge me. At the outset, the Minister paid tribute to Mr. Paul Dillon, who is retiring after a long career. Mr. Dillon taught me a very valuable lesson. Up to that point, I had believed legislation was made by these Houses, but I learnt in the course of the passage of the Forestry Act 2014 that it is, in fact, made in Departments and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: On the same issue, there has been a lot of emphasis this year on the requirement of agriculture to improve its impact on our water quality. I agree that agriculture has a role to play and needs to improve the impact it is having. I fear that after the derogation has ended, we will come back in five years and water quality in Ireland will not have improved enough unless the other actors also...