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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school bus routes (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if there is a timeline for the provision of these services; if an explanation for the delays in these routes commencing can be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43825/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to appeals regarding payment of the pandemic payment by frontline workers (details supplied); if the matter is under review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43558/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 531. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to proposed changes for January 2024 in the way the Revenue Commissioners treat general medical services income within general practitioner partnerships; if he is concerned that this will impact the number of GPs operating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43811/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: We set out to make this budget about putting money back in people's pockets, protecting children and families and ensuring our climate and environmental challenges can be met head-on. We framed it as a budget for children, your pocket and our planet. To me, the most significant aspect is the €14 billion infrastructure, climate and nature fund. It safeguards continued capital...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: The party’s figures do not add up. It comes back with figures which suggest that it will spend less while providing more housing. As I have clearly outlined, the biggest constraint is not the funding but the capacity to be able to do it. This Government is committed to building more cost rental housing, more affordable housing and more social housing. We have seen the result of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (12 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review existing supports available to those in receipt of the State pension to include financial supports for those that are coeliac to assist with the cost of their dietary requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44502/23]

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

Steven Matthews: In last year's budget, we announced the roll out of solar panels on our schools. The growth in solar energy in this country is one of the renewable energy successes of this Government. We removed VAT and put in substantial grants. We have a good feed-in tariff and have removed the requirement for planning permission. In the budget, we expanded the tax disregard to €400 for that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding Ireland’s efforts to promote the safety of civilians on both sides in the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict at an EU level; how these diplomatic efforts are being carried out in practical terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45106/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 475 of 11 September and 160 of 20 September 2023, if he will consider an amendment to the Finance Act 2024 that would eliminate the anomaly in the approved retirement fund legislation whereby, upon the death of an ARF holder, foster children are treated under the ‘others’ category rather than the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to conflicting information related to a planning matter as stated (details supplied); the analysis which he or his Department has carried out on the planning permission in question; how the conclusion was reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (17 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised by (details supplied) regarding the staggered increase in foster care allowance; if the final increase proposed for Q4 2024 can be brought forward to January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45038/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding the proposed change of the legal status of childminders that would allow parents that use these services to avail of the cuts in childcare fees announced in the two most recent budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44978/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 544. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the 49 recommendations set out in the Mental Health Commission's report regarding Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44900/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to reconsider the timeline for the expansion of the children's allowance to include 18-year-olds in full-time education; if the basis for decision to delay this change to September 2024 could be outlined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45761/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Disputes (18 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to proposed industrial action by some Section 39 workers related to pay disparity disputes; if his Department is engaging with representatives of these organisations to seek to avoid this escalation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45496/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Research Arena Event in April 2024: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the witnesses. I agree with Senator Doherty that it is quite an exciting time, not just for the conference, but also for Ireland when we put it in the context of the programme for Government agreement, where we agreed to spend the transport budget 2:1 on public transport over new roads, and also the significant negotiation around active travel spend. Ireland is in a position where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Research Arena Event in April 2024: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: In terms of those participating in or presenting at the conference, is this open to research, academic and political participants and the general public? Who is the intended audience and who will present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Research Arena Event in April 2024: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Research Arena Event in April 2024: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: Is an active travel aspect particular to this also? One of the difficulties and pinch points we have when we try to implement active travel is this conversation which goes on which is about the reallocation - I would not call it the loss of parking - of road space to other users to try to address that imbalance we have developed over 60 years of car dominance. Will there be a European...