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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ferry Services (18 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 745. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will address matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); the actions she will take to address the deficiencies in the service involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26482/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Proofing of Policies (19 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure that the forthcoming report and conclusions of the Pensions Commission will be appropriately gender proofed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26827/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (19 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the contract of each participant on affected schemes such as community employment, Tús, the rural social scheme and so on as a consequence of Covid-19 restrictions in view of the disruption to the activities of employment activation schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2021 Poll Results: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: I thank the witnesses. As always, we have heard an interesting presentation. Deputy Howlin's remarks on polls and how they are read are worth reflecting on. I will take up the Chairman's challenge on behalf of all those between 45 and 54. We are Generation Europe. Some of us were born in 1973. We grew up with Europe. According to the poll, 55% of those aged between 35 and 44 agree...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhís Craolacháin Gaeilge: Plé (19 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus roimh an Uasal O'Keeffe. Tá cúpla ceist ghearr agam. Cuirim fáilte roimh an obair atá á déanamh ag an Aire chun airgead breise a fháil le haghaidh TG4. Tá sé an-tábhachtach i leith cúrsaí Gaeilge, gan dabht, ach tá sé tábhachtach freisin i leith cúrsaí...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I will go first because I am probably closer to benefitting from the legislation than Deputy Devlin. I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on this legislation, although not just this legislation but on her work over the last number of years as Opposition spokesperson on older people in pioneering this legislation and delivering it within ten months of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (20 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding proposals for uplands and commonage in the CAP negotiations; and if he will give an assurance to protect the income of hill farmers. [27009/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to improve the felling licence process here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27010/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place or planned to provide an enhanced campus experience for third-level students for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26968/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (20 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made under the National Adult Literacy Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26969/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1255 of 31 March 2021, when the required frost recon scheme will be announced to support owners of woodlands affected by detrimental frost damage in May 2019 and 2020 and again in early May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27168/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pyrite Incidence (25 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this very important issue. The defective concrete blocks scheme is a scheme to remedy the blocks used to build homes in counties Donegal and Mayo. The scheme as outlined is not working and is actually adding to the immense stress people are already under as a consequence of having pyrite, in the case of the County Mayo houses, in their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pyrite Incidence (25 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State has said the grant scheme targets a restricted group of homeowners who have no other practical options to access redress but this is not a practical option for many families. This will not return a building to the condition it would otherwise have been in, which is another aim of the scheme. Tonight there are families who will leave their bedrooms to sleep in living...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (25 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out an assessment of the number of vacant standalone properties in the country; the breakdown of same by county; if he will give consideration to the introduction of a home renovation grant to encourage owners of rundown standalone properties to renovate them and bring them back to use; his...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ferry Services (25 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 581. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 745 of 18 May 2021, if she will outline the differential in the guide price for this service versus all other island services funded by her Department; the reason the guide price for this contract is so low; her views on whether the low guide price is prohibitive to companies putting on more...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 44. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress on implementation of the 22-point Action Plan following publication of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation final report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28733/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: 118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to restore driver theory tests; and the likely resumption dates. [28921/21]

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and I am sharing with Deputies O'Connor, Cahill, McAuliffe and Alan Farrell. I commend the Minister on elements of this plan but the important thing is that they are delivered upon. It would be worthwhile as we come to the first anniversary of this Government to reflect on the amount of announcements in the past 11 months and the correlation between those...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts (2 Jun 2021)

Dara Calleary: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to previous Parliamentary Questions in relation to a potential RFT for local employment services in areas with existing providers and for those areas with no local employment services at present, the specific EU procurement rules she cites in her responses as necessary to issue a RFT; if she has sought a derogation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (3 Jun 2021)

Dara Calleary: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way IDA Ireland's property division plans to work in partnership with Mayo County Council to develop access infrastructure to lands in Ballina, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30035/21]