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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department has taken to ensure afforestation is not only compatible within the next CAP but also encouraged through the environmental schemes in both pillar 1 and pillar 2. [16999/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Brexit Adjustment Reserve for the seafood processing capital investment scheme. [17000/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends increasing afforestation grant rates immediately for both existing and new projects given the serious increases in costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forest road approvals his Department must approve from now until the end of 2022 to ensure that all of the applications currently on hand in his Department are dealt with by 31 December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the 21 Mackinnon report recommendations issued in 2019; and the number that have been implemented. [16998/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the start date of construction works for a project (details supplied); and the expected timeline of construction. [17236/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the start date of construction works for a project (details supplied); and the expected timeline of construction. [17237/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene on an issue that has developed in the treatment abroad scheme (details supplied). [17118/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I, too, welcome the Commissioner and his colleagues to our committee this morning. I would like a better understanding of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau and how it operates. How many investigating gardaí or officers are assigned to that unit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome that. I suppose I am trying to get at whether it is seen as a priority for An Garda Síochána on the basis of the growth of cybercrime. It is now such a vast area of crime. It is a relatively new frontier or phenomenon. One worries that not enough resources are being deployed at the coalface to meet the crime detection requirements. If one could be disabused of that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Commissioner. I appreciate the answer. If the figures on personnel were made available to the committee, they would certainly be very useful to us. A statement of the Garda Commissioner’s intention from a policy point of view to increase the numbers of staff in the cybercrime unit would give the public some confidence also. I just want to move on to-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: By my calculation, that is moving up to 380.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Could I move on to the justice plan? The Commissioner made reference to the digital recording Bill. The Garda Representative Association has been very strong on the need for body-worn camera, bodycam, units. These will be legislated for in the digital recording Bill, presumably. What engagement has the Commissioner had with the Minister for Justice on that Bill? Assuming that the Bill...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Commissioner. I have less than one minute left. I want to dovetail with Deputy Colm Burke's point in respect of Macroom. The issue relating to Macroom is important for policing in an entire region, as the Commissioner can imagine. It is quite literally policing from the Kerry border over to the Waterford border and north to counties Limerick and Tipperary. That is not an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I have just received notification this very minute that a company, Positive Care, which provides residential services for young people, is to be put out of business with the loss of up to 240 jobs. The company provides residential services for vulnerable young people in up to 25 facilities, as I understand it. I appreciate that I am inquiring with the Taoiseach about this matter at very...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Ceann Comhairle------

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Indeed. The European Council met on 24 and 25 March. Unfortunately, it did not deliver the additional sanctions against Russia, supports for the Ukrainian people or the much-needed derogation on VAT we require to allow us reduce the costs of energy for struggling households. The Labour Party is in strong support of Ukraine joining the EU and we as a union need to speak as one voice to...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I support the motion. I wish to refer to Question No. 688, which I tabled on 5 April to the Minister for Health, in which I asked him if he would report on the Housing for All plan for an amended fair deal scheme to remove disincentives for sale and rental of vacant properties. The question was answered by the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. It states: My Department is actively...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (5 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 69. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of measures concluded in the Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 document since it was launched in March 2021. [17872/22]