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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (5 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his very positive response and the Department who prepared the response for him. I note, in particular, that he said that officials from his Department will be addressing the issue with each of the patrons this week with a view to finding a workable solution to ensure that no students will be without a place for September 2023. I warmly welcome that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (5 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to establish a full-time Consulate General of Ireland in Montreal, Canada; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33124/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Promotion (5 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on the work of the Enterprise Ireland office in Quebec, Canada, since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33129/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Bodies (5 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the work of drafting the Amendment of the Constitution (Unified Patent Court) Bill seeking to amend Article 29 of the Constitution to recognise the international agreement on a Unified Patent Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33137/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 293 and 301 of 20 June 2023, 79 of 24 November 2022 and 101 of 11 October 2022, if she has been made aware that there is still a sizeable number of students in east Cork who have not been offered a first-year place in a second-level school for the coming school year; if she will make further resources...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Defective Building Materials (5 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 176. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered an expansion of his Department’s Building Blocks Capital Programme to make capital grants available to potential childcare service providers towards the cost of purchasing premises to develop childcare facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32985/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with Representatives of Church in Chains (4 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: I thank Mr. Turner for his presentation. At the very start, he said we enjoy freedom here, but for many years that was not the case. In the past we had the penal laws and all that. Thankfully, that is well behind us. He indicated in his presentation that some countries have improved and are moving in the right direction while others have not. Overall, the map is pretty harrowing in large...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: Professor Morris also mentioned that not all forms of renewable energy are carbon neutral. Can he expand on that a little?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures put in place by his Department to ensure that those families that are not eligible for the cost-rental tenant-in-situ scheme are not made homeless as a result of their current property being put up for sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32923/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans, if any, to adjust the cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme to take into account families whose household income exceeds the limit specified in the scheme and where, because of the age of the applicant, a mortgage is not an option; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32922/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the maximum rent limits under the rent supplement scheme were last updated; the plans, if any, she has to increase these rent limits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32912/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the rent supplement scheme can be used to assist Ukrainian nationals who are living in Ireland under the EU Temporary Protection Directive to avail of private rental accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33192/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Intellectual Property (6 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 210. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline if the working groups, the interdepartmental committee on the Unified Patent Court and the Enterprise Agencies Forum on the Unified Patent Court, previously established to examine the workings of Ireland's participation in the Unified Patent Court, have been reconvened, or when they will be reconvened; the current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: I welcome our guests to the meeting and thank them for their presentation. I also thank them for what they do in representing RDF members across the country. Many of the questions I was going to ask have been asked. That is the danger of following Deputy Berry, who is the resident expert on all things military. I was going to ask about the First Line Reserve and heard the response that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: When I was at the Department of Justice we put the national youth justice strategy together. I am very aware of the other impacts the reserve has on wider society by instilling self-confidence, discipline, statecraft and so on in young people, in particular. I am not looking for the witnesses to respond today. We could probably spend the whole meeting talking about the wider impact of a...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (13 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: I nominate Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (12 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic and I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, for being present to respond. This topic arises as a result of a family approaching me. I am sure colleagues have had similar cases where the principal earner is over the limit and cannot get a mortgage because of age, and where the income in the household is above...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (12 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for outlining what is being done and what the plans are. The Government is certainly moving on this very critical issue of housing, as I can see in my area, where a lot of new starts are occurring and people are being offered houses, which was not the case previously. I thank him also for promising to revert to me with respect to the critical issue I raised. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: The State is spending tens of millions of euro in my constituency building state-of-the-art schools, both primary and secondary, which is greatly welcomed by everybody. Next September, however, in spite of that, there is a cohort of young second-level students going into first year who have no place. I have raised this on a number of occasions. Will the Tánaiste contact the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (11 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: 139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the need to support family farm partnerships and small sole traders whose domestic residence has the same meter reference point reference number (MPRN) as the farm enterprise or small business, and where the family home is part of the farm or business, by allowing them to continue to...