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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 22 June 2022, the measures being taken by his Department to assist City, County Childcare Committees to provide crèche pre-school services in areas where there is unmet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35385/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Co-operation (28 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: Today we meet the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-parliamentary Co-operation of Ukraine via MS Teams, to get an update on the current situation in Ukraine. I welcome the Chair of the Committee, Mr. Oleksandr Merezhko along with the Deputy Chair, Ms Maryna Bardina, and their colleagues. I also welcome the ambassador, H.E. Ms Larysa Gerasko, ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland, in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Co-operation (28 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank Mr. Merezhko. We will now take questions and comments from members of the committee. I ask members to be concise. We have a number of people who have offered. I give the floor to Deputy Berry first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Co-operation (28 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank Deputy Berry. I call on Mr. Merezhko to come back in to respond to those three questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Co-operation (28 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Senator. I will invite Mr. Merezhko to respond in a moment. I want to point out that as a committee we can recommend certain things to the Government but we cannot promise to make decisions. We can make recommendations. I want to make that clear. Mr. Merezhko can take the floor and respond to the Senator's points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Co-operation (28 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank Mr. Merezhko for his time this afternoon and keeping us informed of the horrors being perpetrated on his country, the terrible suffering, the needless loss of life and the needless war. I hear what he says about the tragedy of any life being a loss. As a father of four young sons myself, I can only feel for the sorrow and anguish of many families and parents who have lost young...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 214. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way that his Department and the agencies under the remit of his Department engage with and support the development of blockchain technology; the engagements that he, the Department's junior Ministers or Department officials have had in this regard to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37454/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications that were made under the community involvement scheme per county in 2021 and 2022, respectively; the successful applications during this period; the amount allocated to each successful application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37214/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the situation regarding the procurement of new rolling stock and battery and electric locomotives with respect to the upgrade of the Cork metropolitan rail network; the role that he or his Department has in approving any such procurement; the possible timescales for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37376/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount made available by his Department to each local authority respectively to support vacant housing officer posts; the amount drawn down by each of the local authorities; the number of full-time vacant housing officers currently in position in each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37349/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given consideration to granting eligibility under the Fresh Start principle to the local authority home loan scheme to applicants in cases in which a relationship had existed and has ended but who had not been married and in cases on which they no longer retain a beneficial interest in a home; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 412 of 31 May 2022, if a decision has been taken which will allow for the provision of school transport for post-primary students who were otherwise eligible for transport but are attending their second nearest school and had applied and paid on time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37962/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered increasing the special needs school transportation grant given the increased cost of petrol and diesel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37960/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has given any consideration to relaxing the residency requirements of being in the State, European Union, United Kingdom or Switzerland for three of the past five years for Irish citizens applying for a SUSI grant, given the international travel restrictions caused by Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37251/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 1150. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will list the applications that were made per county under the local improvement scheme in 2021 and 2022, respectively; the applications that were approved by her Department; the amount allocated to each successful application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37215/22]

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I will be brief as many of my colleagues asked a lot of the questions already. I join colleagues in commending our troops abroad. I have been out there a few times and the reaction in Lebanon, in particular, from the civilian population is very positive to our troops in the way they interact and the informal friendly and professional way they very often go about their business. Our troops...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: It seems many other countries also have this now and other technologies. It is something about which we should be concerned. Will the Minister comment a bit further on that very positive development of UN Security Council Resolution 2594, which was mentioned almost as a postscript to the presentation? It seems to me to be a very positive development. The Minister and his team are to be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his Department’s current policy with respect to the tenants of part V local authority housing purchasing the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38229/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: 455. To ask the Minister for Health when restrictions on travel from South Africa to Ireland due to Covid-19 were first put in place; when they were lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38449/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: Yesterday, at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, we heard about the Unified Patent Court system and its potential for Ireland. It could be worth between €500,000 and €1.5 billion per annum. There is a need to set up a referendum here to ratify the system. 1 o’clock What is the situation with regard to this referendum?...