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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (13 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the response she has received from the board of Tusla following her engagement with the board on matters raised on the findings of the disclosures tribunal in respect of Tusla. [52440/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he had at the COP24 summit; and if funding programmes for decarbonisation here were identified. [53417/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister attended the meeting in Katowice. It would be very useful for the House to understand his level of engagement with our multilateral partners and through the prism of the European Union. Arising from the new rule book that has been agreed with regard to putting the 2015 Paris Agreement into real action, will the Minister give me a sense of his vision in terms of the type of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister addressed the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action on 5 December and made very specific references to the €500 million climate action fund. He has already said that there are seven major climate change projects that will share €77 million in Government funding. He also made reference to the sovereign green bond. If we are talking about how the decisions we will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the Minister's commitment, about which there is no question. In asking the question, I was trying to find out what the sense in Government is. I understand that the Minister has met the various line Departments but it is about a whole-of-Government approach led directly by the Taoiseach that recognises the urgency of the challenge and ensures that the net behavioural change that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Efficiency (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the engagement he has had with the Department of Education and Skills on the decarbonisation of school buildings. [53138/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Efficiency (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The Joint Committee on Climate Action is sitting currently in response to the Citizens' Assembly report. Committee members visited Tipperary recently. I note the Chairman of the committee is present and the Vice Chairman was present up to a moment ago. We had the good fortune to visit Youghalarra national school. That school has converted to heat exchange technology. Effectively, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Efficiency (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the Minister's response. Could a formal engagement be made between the Ministers to put in place some type of service level agreement or memorandum of understanding? Can we develop an understanding for those who are tendering for these projects so that it would be as seamless as possible? Applications would have to measure up to the regulatory framework naturally, but the process...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met the SEAI and an agency (details supplied) on the programme of deep retrofitting for municipal and private dwellings; and if a funding programme will be developed that will accelerate the decarbonisation of public buildings and private dwellings. [53136/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with a company (details supplied) regarding the roll-out of broadband under the agreement previously reached; and if he has raised the issue of towns not being serviced by such a deal despite being included. [53135/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan. [53134/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Alternative Energy Projects (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to accelerating the number of community energy projects under the sustainable energy community network. [53137/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Bike Schemes (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to providing a small number of child-sized bicycles in certain stations under the public bike scheme in operation in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. [53380/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Bike Schemes (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement he has had with Waterford City and County Council on the establishment of a public bike scheme in the city. [53381/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I will try to give the Minister a fair hearing and look at the issue in a cold and rational way. I understand from her response that a set of substantive recommendations, arising from the operational review, is being enacted but that she will not publish a report which underpins the recommendations. Is that assessment correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to tease out the reasons for the Minister's decision. We have all received most of the freedom of information legislation material based on the work of Justine McCarthy of RTÉ. I also have correspondence dated 17 November 2017. The report was received in February 2017, almost a full two years ago. I am reluctant to name people, but there is correspondence from the chairperson...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Was the Minister minded to publish the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: If the Attorney General's report states, on more than one occasion, that there was no impediment to publication of the report, it would be logical for the Minister to deem it safe to publish it. What are the risks? Was the advice received from the Attorney General clear on the publication of the report? Did the Attorney General hedge his position? I understand the Minister will not go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Frankly, I do not understand that. I am not a lawyer, but I look at it from the layman's perspective. Many stakeholders have had access to the report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Did HIQA not have access to the report?