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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full breakdown of the revenue generated by the carbon tax under the heading of continuation of 2020 carbon tax investment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47245/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 177. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding is available from the Large-Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund; if any further projects will be considered at this time; the process for those applications as in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47207/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if clarity will be provided regarding section 34 of the Planning Acts, which states that An Bord Pleanála is obliged to take Government policy into account; the sections of the various Planning Acts to which the obligation on An Bord Pleanála to consider Government policy apply; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will update planning regulations around solar power to enable schools and community buildings to obtain planning permission to install solar panels; if his attention has been drawn to the high costs of acquiring planning permission for community buildings; if he will consider exempting them in the same manner as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if information will be provided on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and the review of exemptions for educational and community buildings, as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if further information will be provided on the stated need to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Marriages (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the registration of civil marriages will commence online; the reasons for the delay to commence registration after it was stopped due to the cyber-attack; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 284. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider increasing the intake of refugees from Afghanistan; if he is putting in place a programme to assist any unaccompanied minors coming from Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47253/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 286. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to reports that childcare workers are not being paid when they are excluded from work due to Covid-19 cases in a class and pod; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47205/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 287. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the results of a report (details supplied) whereby 70% of the managers who responded to the survey, found it extremely difficult to recruit staff in the past 12 months; the measures he will carry out to address the impending staffing crisis in the sector; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 288. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a demand for more childcare places outside of ECCE hours; the steps he is taking to address demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47247/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 289. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he plans to address flexibility of childcare hours given that flexible working arrangements are being promoted by Government; if he will address the need for greater flexibility in the childcare sector to meet this policy approach and the various new working arrangements parents are taking on board; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 290. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the numbers of children and families from the Mória refugee camp who have been resettled in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47252/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 311. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined the health impact of vulnerable parents not being notified of Covid-19 cases in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47196/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is undertaking to address the geographical inequalities facing women in accessing in-hospital breastfeeding consultants, particularly in the north west and south east of the country, in which there is currently none; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47206/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding that has gone from the carbon tax 2021 to the REPS-2 programme to encourage and incentivise farmers to farm in a greener and more sustainable way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47241/21]

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Deputy Funchion for bringing forward this important motion. It is important and timely. It would also have been timely a year ago or two years ago, because this issue has been with us for so long. Many parents and families have struggled through the current system. I have found that when parents are able to pay for their childcare, they put their heads down and spend. They know...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (5 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the youth homelessness strategy as part of the new Housing for All plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (5 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reasons for the delay to the successor of Better Outcomes, Brighter Future; when he expects same to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47486/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Poverty (5 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 475. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a child poverty unit has been established in his Department; if so, the staff and resources provided to the unit; the remit of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47487/21]

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank People Before Profit for tabling this timely and important motion. For some families this matter is critical. In recent weeks, there have been many motions and speeches and much discussion in this Chamber, including on parliamentary questions, on the issue of energy security, management and prices and what the Government is doing to address the crisis we are facing into this winter....