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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 244. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of Exchequer funding allocated towards the Eirsat-1 project; to outline the total amount paid to the European Space Agency to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52001/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on advances in her announced plan to introduce a foreign language in primary schools across the State; when it will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52288/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated to Met Éireann in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Regulations (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of permits that his Department has granted for decoy crows in each of the years since 2020; the number of applications that have been received for such permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52204/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Regulations (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason decoy crows cannot be used without a permit by farmers to protect crops and animal feed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52205/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have been redeployed or retired from the Clare Garda division during the first nine months of 2023; the number of members of An Garda Síochána that have been assigned to the Clare Garda division for duty during both years; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many applications for funding have been received to date under the reconstitution ash dieback scheme 2023-2027; how many applications have been successful; the total funding allocated and the number of grant recipients per county to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52029/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is permitted to export stone from Borrow Pits, for which no licence or permit is required, out of the forest in which the pit is located, onto public roads to another, different forest in accordance with the licence/permit requirement exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52049/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the ongoing works at Raheen Community Hospital, County Clare; the reason these works preclude the provision of palliative care at the facility; when the works commenced; when the works are scheduled to conclude; how many palliative beds will be operational in the facility at the conclusion of said works; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 582. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients recorded on trolleys at each public hospital in the State in the period from January to September 2023 and for the same period in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 641. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will give consideration to introducing primary medical certificates to all individuals with physical disabilities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52451/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Meetings (30 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: On the issue of Ukraine’s accession and Irish support for it, how do we justify Ireland’s position in supporting European Union accession for Ukraine in circumstances where Northern Macedonia, or the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it was called for some time, has been languishing for so long with such little support, or indeed Bosnia-Herzegovina or many parts of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: I will ask three questions in the limited time available to me. Does the Commissioner accept that there is a link between this and the toleration of antisocial behaviour on the streets, as seems to have been the case in the south inner city and north inner city, at least during the Covid lockdowns and since, and that as that becomes more and more prevalent, people then feel they can act with...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline Ireland's position on the recent crisis involving Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, and what steps he has taken in international forums, such as the EC and the UN, to seek to reverse the exodus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50231/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland condemns the Israeli response in the Gaza Strip to 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50232/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: Last week, the new Planning and Development Bill was discussed for the first time. It is a very large Bill, as one might expect. It runs to 712 pages and contains many new legislative proposals, although much of it is also a restatement of existing law. The problem is it is not clear which is which. The Standing Orders of the House are very clear on the matter. Standing Order 175...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: It is about Standing Orders.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I have heard the Taoiseach describe offshore wind generation, in particular floating wind generation, as our "moonshot", notwithstanding that the industry was taken aback by the announcement in February that phase 2 would be limited to the south and east coasts and to anchored wind only. Nevertheless it is hoped to have 2 GW of offshore wind generation in development by 2030. That will...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: A bit like air.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: There is much about personalities and criticism of people's personalities on both sides of this House. For me, this is not about personalities at all, for what it is worth. The Minister is a fine person and a relatively competent politician. There must, though, be political accountability in this House in this democracy. This must be the case for health services and security services....