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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2025 (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there was no allocated supports for shared mobility providers offered in Budget 2025, considering these operators play a leading role in making transport more sustainable, accessible and affordable. [40416/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2025 (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on Action 87 of the National Sustainable Mobility Policy, on the development of a strategy for the expansion of car share, bike and PTT services at transport hubs, considering there was no mention of shared mobility in Budget 2025. [40417/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the significant increase in excise duty on cigarettes in Budget 2025 given the concerns set out in the Tax Strategy Group paper regarding the scale of illegal trade in tobacco in Ireland and the resultant tax losses to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40406/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance if Budget 2025 contained any additional resource aimed at the detection and enforcement of illegal cigarette smuggling, including for enhanced spot-checks to ensure compliance with duty-free travel allowances for cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40407/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance if the ongoing development of the framework for allocation of the windfall receipts will consider the potential to invest in acquiring equity to finance the scaling of Irish enterprises in order to enhance the competitiveness of the Irish economy and to expand the corporation tax base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40415/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Budget 2025 included any additional supports for small businesses seeking to develop their digital skills or their use of AI. [40411/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the response to Parliamentary Question Nos. 128, 129, 130 and 131 of 2 October 2024, to provide a breakdown of the funding paid to the third parties listed in the response in lieu of each of the individual bird surveys conducted since 2022. . [40413/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the funding, governance and accountability provisions in place for the Irish Wetland Bird Survey, including the amounts of money paid to non-State agency partners in the survey in each of the past ten years; the details of how non-State agency partners are selected; and the details of any independent assessments...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the Budget 2025 announcement regarding ‘€20 million for a skills package in employment-focused skills and training’ is to be deployed; and if the funding will include supports for small businesses seeking to develop their digital skills or their use of AI. [40412/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Welfare (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 227. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position Ireland is taking in relation to the European Commission proposals for a regulation on dog welfare; and if Ireland will seek amendments to the currently proposed threshold for definition of a breeding establishment which may inadvertently draw Irish farmers and persons involved in hunting, who own multiple dogs, into a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (15 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if commercial bus operators will be included in the continued 20% fare reduction in support of their important contribution to the increased use of public transport. [41423/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Funding (15 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Ireland has, or intends to, access funding from the European Investment Bank’s Clean Bus Initiative; and if commercial bus operators in Ireland will be supported to avail of this finance under this initiative. [41424/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (15 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has examined the use of tax and subsidy schemes support the uptake of battery electric vehicles in other EU Member States – such as the subsidy scheme for small or compact battery electric vehicles in the Netherlands and tax exemptions that exist in member states like Denmark and Italy; if his Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (15 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of the reports that social media platforms are possibly being used to illegally offer the sale of non-duty-paid tobacco products; and what measures are being put in place to detect and crack-down on such activity. [41429/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Sanctions (15 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 267. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rationale for Ireland’s vote in support of EU tariffs on Chinese EV imports, noting the tariffs may results in increased prices for certain popular and affordable models of EVs as well as the reduction in the number EV lines imported into Ireland from China, with the potential to disincentivise the transition to EVs....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 667. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure for reimbursement of continuous glucose monitors on the approved medical device list for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41425/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 668. To ask the Minister for Health the number of type 1 diabetes patients that were approved to use reimbursed diabetes technology; if he will provide a breakdown on the suppliers; the total costs provided to each supplier for this technology, between the years 2020 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41426/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (22 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 675. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an estimate of the total cost to the exchequer of dealing with alcohol-related issues per annum, including, but not limited to, costs incurred by the health service and costs incurred in the course of handling drink driving incidents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43219/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (22 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 830. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of hospital presentations associated with alcohol consumption in 2023 and in 2024 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43217/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (22 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 831. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an indication of the total cost to the health service of treating alcohol-related issues and illnesses per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43218/24]