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Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Joe Flaherty: We sought a progressive and decisive budget and one that was mindful of the once-in-a-lifetime challenges facing the country in the form of the energy and cost-of-living crises. The Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Michael McGrath, have certainly responded and I thank them both, as well as their staff. Doubtless they spent many long hours over recent months to come up with budget 2023. It...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan and the Minister for sharing time. I commend the Minister on Housing for All. It is probably one of the most ambitious plans we have seen in the history of the State. It is a huge plan, in terms of volume and aspiration but more importantly, in terms of the money and real commitment the Government has put behind it. The Minister has energised the plan and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is in receipt of a carer's payment for more than one dependent care recipient will receive the €500 carer's grant announced in Budget 2023 for each of the care dependents. [48421/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the once-off cost-of-living double week’s payment scheduled for October 2022 includes recipients of the widow’s pension. [48639/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 21 October 2021, the number of Garda officers now assigned to County Longford; and the allocation to each station in the county by rank as of 31 August 2022 (details supplied). [47983/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of policing services in County Longford (details supplied). [47984/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the application by a person (details supplied) for regularisation as part of the long-term undocumented migrant scheme. [48369/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 756. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans, if any, to provide supports for farmers who plan to, or need to, construct passes under the road for the purposes of road safety and animal welfare. [48205/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: The EPA mentioned a drinking water quality report which will be published next week. It seems an inordinate length of time to wait for a 2021 report. There are many agencies and bodies are in the country. Farmers who were at the agriculture committee a number of weeks ago were exasperated that it takes so long to produce this report. Many staff and a lot of money are allocated to this....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: One would think that it would be a cumulative project. Surely the report can come out of the first quarter or even summer. In the context of the nitrates directives and everything else, this report has a huge impact on the farming community.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Over the past three years typically when was it published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Staying with this, true to form farming is the big bogey. Dr. Ryan led with water quality and stated that agriculture, forestry and physical changes such as land drainage are the big issues. The farming community would take big issue with that. There are a lot more factors at play in terms of water quality. Has the EPA not seen a huge change in farming? Has it not seen farmers engage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Does Dr. Ryan think that the way that is worded very much hones in on agriculture and forestry, that it is targeted and that as far as the agency is concerned agriculture is the big bogey when it comes to water quality?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Could Dr. Ryan probably have worded that a bit better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: The HSE boil water notices are a huge issue when they happen. I acknowledge from the presentations and from what the representatives tell us that when boil water notices kick in that the factors or transgressions are marginal before they implement a boil water notice. When a boil water notice comes into play, how proactive are they? Is it in real time that they are assessing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Yes, I see that. In Irish Water 30 days is considered a long time for a boil water notice. Is there any reflection or report done afterwards or any accountability when a boil water notice is implemented? For example, regarding the boil water notice in Longford, is there anything we can say to the public that it will never happen again and that steps have been taken to ensure whatever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am conscious that I am out of time. Are steps taken to ensure that it will not happen again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Dr. Minihan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm a date or week for when the junior certificate results for 2022 will issue. [49214/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the speakers for coming in and for giving us a very comprehensive overview of all the work they do. We have heard plenty so I will try to be as succinct as possible. I have a couple of questions and the witnesses can come back to me when I have gone through them, if that is okay. In regard to the new connections, it is great to see we are at 18,000 and, on that basis, we will exceed...