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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 361. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current backlog on new passport applications; the backlog on renewals; and if consideration is being given to purchasing an additional printing machine to be based in County Cork. [4322/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to date for a service (details supplied) in tabular form. [3948/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 590. To ask the Minister for Health when workers in an out-of-hours health service (details supplied) will receive the pandemic bonus. [3949/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 659. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years of age in each CHO by individual area, awaiting first-time intervention in all areas of early intervention; the number on the public list; the number on the CDNT list in each CHO in tabular form; and the length of time they are awaiting intervention by age. [4170/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 679. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to be seen by child and adolescent mental health services by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and the length of time that persons are waiting to be seen. [4236/23]

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: There is no testimony more compelling than that of Deputy Boyd Barrett today because that is a first-hand account. If that does not impact on all of us, and particularly on the Government, then we are in cold times as regards the promulgation of this legislation. I put forward this amendment on Committee Stage because like others, we in the Opposition feel so constrained in seeking to amend...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: To be fair, one could have anticipated the Minister's response because it is consistent with the response on Committee Stage. I was hopeful there would be some movement by the Minister in respect of what we were seeking to do in amendment No. 2. I share the views of Deputy Cairns in respect of the culture that seemingly exists within the Department in respect of the freedom of information...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I proposed this amendment and there are five seconds left in the slot.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: The idea that people cannot institute civil proceedings if they receive a payment is something that will be revisited in law. This will come back to haunt us. There is no doubt about it.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I raised the issue of the role of chief deciding officer on Committee Stage. There is still no clarity as to the status of that role. Will it be a Civil Service role? Will it be subject to the Public Appointments Service process? What grade will the appointed person be? Is there an equivalent grade within the Civil Service in respect of that role? What role will public representatives...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I need to know, in simple terms, whether I can make representations on behalf of my constituents who present to me regarding their interactions with the office that is to be set up?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: If the witness tells me that Down Syndrome Ireland are, at a national policy level, talking to the NCSE about the transitions we are discussing then I will be satisfied. If the answer is "no" then people like me could contact the NCSE. What I am finding in schools is a piecemeal, almost pernicious approach by the NCSE. Schools will get an allocation of half a person here and a quarter of a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus users on each individual bus route in Galway City and county in each of the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form. [5516/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance the audit that has been carried out since 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 on the impact of benefit-in-kind changes in the Finance Act 2019 on notional pay and the subsequent knock-on taxation implications for workers in pay ranges (details supplied), in tabular form. [5279/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers that have been impacted on changes in benefit-in-kind made in the Finance Act 2019, per county, in tabular form. [5280/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if data is available on whether workers who avail of benefit-in-kind are better or worse off due to the changes introduced in the Finance Act 2019; and if emissions are up or down as a result of that change. [5281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to re-examine the benefit-in-kind changes introduced in the Finance Act 2019 due to higher emissions and costs to those workers. [5282/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the process for the selection of sites for modular housing; the process and timeline once a site investigation report is made and the determining factors in deciding what is and what is not a suitable site. [5397/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if income disregards could be reviewed for the purposes of assessment of means for carer’s allowance, with a view to ensuring that the income of a spouse, civil partner, or cohabitant where they work overtime, would not disbar an applicant for eligibility for the carer's allowance. [5993/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I ask the Minister for Social Protection whether income disregards could be reviewed for the purpose of assessment of means for carer's allowance with a view to ensuring the income of spouses, civil partners or cohabitants, where they work overtime, will not disbar an applicant from eligibility for carer's allowance.