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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to further expand the school meals programme; the number of applications for inclusion in the scheme that were received for the 2022-23 school year; the number of these applications that were successful and the number that were unsuccessful; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6169/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 84. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he is supporting young adults with disabilities to access training and employment post-second level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6172/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (9 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with regard to the availability of suitably trained persons to teach home economics in second level schools; if her attention has been drawn to research or surveys by teacher unions or the Teaching Council on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6203/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (9 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the Decision Support Service (DSS) to be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Electricity Generation (8 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 662 of 24 January 2023, the way in which a farmer can avail of an onsite farmyard inspection by his Department’s staff to ensure that a solar PV installation meets the minimum requirements of his Department’s technical and safety specifications, not least specification S198...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (8 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 511. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which other State or local authority funds can be used in conjunction with community centres investment fund-funding to carry out works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6180/23]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: There is so much going on and so much positive stuff happening that it is hard to keep up. Are we sticking with programme A and then coming back to programmes B and C?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: We will do all three.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: One of the things I am interested in is regional enterprise development. IDA Ireland expects to spend €60 million on development property solutions in different areas across the country this year and has three advanced facilities. Are they buildings that IDA Ireland has designed and built in Monaghan, Dundalk and Sligo? It is expected that four further facilities will be delivered...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: It is the new construction centre. Perhaps the right name is the construction technology centre. I think it is a collaboration between NUI Galway, TCD, UCD, UCC and the Irish Green Building Council. Could the Minister provide more detail on that because it is something in which I am quite interested, as, I am sure, are many other members? I am quite happy to see the programme...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (14 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans, if any, to make changes to the SUSI grant eligibility criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6899/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (14 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the action taken by his Department to address shortfalls in residency requirements for SUSI applications for applicants whose residency in the State may have been impacted by Covid-19 travel restrictions in place at the time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6480/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the current planning requirements with respect to providing short-term self-catering letting accommodation in areas designated as rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6509/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Birth Certificates (14 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason former surnames are requested to be included on birth certificates in respect of birth certificates issued pursuant to the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7083/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow GPs to prescribe cariban to patients under the community drugs scheme, the general medical services scheme and the drug payment scheme without it being consultant initiated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6537/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions for cariban that have been processed through the drug payment scheme in 2021 and in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6538/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (15 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the current situation with respect to the €30 million funding package announced in June 2022 to support the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7592/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ukraine War: Ambassadors of Ukraine and Moldova (21 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I welcome the ambassador and the delegation and thank them for coming in today. Deputy Brady has covered a lot of the questions I was going to ask so I will not repeat them. I am struck by one of the figures which the ambassador mentioned in her presentation, where she said that 16,207 children have been deported from Ukraine and that they are now in Russia. The ambassador might let us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ukraine War: Ambassadors of Ukraine and Moldova (21 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I welcome Mrs. Miculet and thank her for her presentation. My colleague Deputy Brady has already mentioned that wars can be fought in different ways. There are the conventional boots on the ground, tanks and planes. There are also propaganda wars, disinformation, destabilisation and cyberattacks. Last week there was a change in political leadership in Moldova. I wish the country well...