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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: 634. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid-19 bonus payment for healthcare workers in a clinical environment throughout the pandemic will be extended to Covid-19 community swabbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15854/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: No one who lives in Lucan, as I do, can sign up as a new patient with a GP; their books are full. However, as the census will show, it is a rapidly growing area, home to not one but two strategic development zones. Despite Sláintecare, people cannot access their medical first port of call, the GP in their community. A constituent has been waiting for four years to get on a GP's books....

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: I welcome the more than 14,000 Ukrainian people who have already arrived into Ireland. A couple of weeks ago they could not possibly have imagined packing up their lives and moving to the far side of this Continent. I hope that their time here, whether long- or short-lived, brings them the safety and support they so badly need and deserve. Ukrainians arriving at Dublin Airport are being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (30 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in reducing smoking rates in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16907/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (30 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date to provide a primary care centre to serve the four district areas of Saggart, Rathcoole, Newcastle and Brittas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16908/22]

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: I welcome the publication of the women’s health action plan. Its publication speaks to the tide change that is happening in the area of women’s health. It is something I very much support. Women’s health goes far beyond just family planning. I am glad to see this action plan recognising the many facets and areas of women’s health that need and deserve...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister and her Department for everything it did to support people during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially people with disabilities and their families. There were particular efforts with the PUP to steer people through that really difficult time. I also thank the Minister for her really encouraging contribution today. She is clearly really passionate and committed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for addressing all the questions. That number of people who will be eligible for the carer's allowance, at 8,000, is huge. It is up to all of us as advocates for people with disabilities and their carers to try to get word out there and encourage people to resubmit their applications. The Minister's comments on the workplace equipment adaptation grant are very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank all the witnesses for coming. From the County and City Management Association, CCMA, we are joined by Mr. Frank Curran, chair of the housing, building and land use committee, Mr. Eddie Taaffe, programme co-ordinator of the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, housing delivery co-ordination office, and Ms Margaret Geraghty, assistant programme co-ordinator at the same office....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: I invite Mr. O'Connor to make his opening statement on behalf of the Housing Alliance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Chairman. I thank all our guests and their teams, not just for attending and talking us through this but for all the work they do to deliver homes and get people into them, which we all support. My number one concern in this area, which previous speakers also raised, is the delivery of targets and the ability to hit them. When the targets for Housing for All were set last...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (5 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, for coming to the House to take this Topical Issue matter on how we will expand our school capacity to accommodate Ukrainian students coming to Ireland. The suffering and destruction we are witnesses in Ukraine is devastating. I am sure the Minister will share my condemnation of the Russian regime and the horrific war crimes that we are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (5 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for her response. I welcome her establishment of the REALT and all the work being done to, as she said, analyse the data and demand. I do not doubt that accommodating so many new students is a considerable challenge but I have no doubt it is a challenge that the Minister and her Department will work hard to overcome. The capacity issue speaks to the urgent need to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: Almost one in five people in this country own cryptocurrency and interest in crypto assets, especially among young people, is on the rise but, unfortunately, so too is investment fraud. Almost €12.5 million was lost to investment fraud last year. Last month, the Central Bank issued a warning on the potential risks of investing in crypto assets because it is an unregulated industry....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: Then why bother asking it?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (5 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: 104. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the funding for hubs under the connected hubs funding stream to facilitate remote working; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17940/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Vacant Properties (5 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: 112. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the financial support that has been made available to local authorities in order to bring vacant properties in town centres back into use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17941/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Kishogue rail station will open resulting in a local train service for commuters in Lucan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (5 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a forum for members of the public to make submissions to the primary medical certificate review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Emer Higgins: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the commencement date for phase two of a school development (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17818/22]