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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 509. To ask the Minister for Health when the plans to add additional space at Letterkenny University Hospital will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20227/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 639. To ask the Minister for Health what nutritional guidelines are in place for the school meals programme; the measures in place to ensure these guidelines are being complied with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20876/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (21 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: Fáilte ar ais, a Aire Stáit Noonan. I often wonder who listens to the words of TDs. In fairness, at the different times the Minister of State has been here, he has listened. He has been compassionate and showed empathy. However, this is an important question for departmental officials in particular. I certainly do not want to go down the road of bashing officials. They are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (21 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Minister of State for the response. He is correct in saying that the legislation states that, within 12 months of the legislation being enacted, the Minister of State has the discretion to increase it by up to 10%. It is important that I point something out. Even at this early stage of the scheme, while the officials' interpretation is that there is no robust data, there is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (21 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeowners transferring from the old scheme to the new scheme under the defective blocks legislation who are due money back; the number who have been paid to date; to give an indication as to when the homeowners who are owed money will be reimbursed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22421/24]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil ar Earnáil Scríbhneoireachta, Foilsitheoireachta agus Léitheoireachta na Gaeilge: Plé (22 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: Cuirim fáilte roimh gach éinne anseo inniu. Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit agus guím ádh mór air sa phost úr. Cuirim fáilte roimh Aodán agus Aodhán. B'fhéidir go bhfuil scéal ann maidir leis an tseimhiú. Tá ceist agam i leith cúrsaí cumarsáide idir Roinn na Gaeltachta agus an Roinn...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil ar Earnáil Scríbhneoireachta, Foilsitheoireachta agus Léitheoireachta na Gaeilge: Plé (22 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: Go raibh maith ag an Aire Stáit as sin. Tá sé sin dearfach agus guím ádh mór air maidir leis an gcóras sin. Chomh maith leis sin, tá mé ag smaoineamh faoi ráiteas a chuala mé cúpla bliain ó shin: "nuair atá achan rud ráite agus déanta, tá níos mó ráite ná atá déanta". I mo...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil ar Earnáil Scríbhneoireachta, Foilsitheoireachta agus Léitheoireachta na Gaeilge: Plé (22 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as sin. Tá an ceart aige. Tá na rudaí atá á bhaint amach faoin pholasaí soiléir. Bhí an Teachta Ó Cuív ag obair ar an teanga san Eoraip in 2007 agus cuireadh deireadh leis an maolú ar deireadh in 2021. Tá na torthaí le feiceáil. Chomh maith leis sin, tá mé ag...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on salary and pensions for caretakers in school settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23577/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the recommendations made by the steering group comprised of officials from the relevant local authorities, his Department, the Housing Agency, and the homeowner's liaison officer for the first six months of the defective blocks scheme; if home owner representatives, aside from the HLO, were consulted during this six...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of outstanding TAM applications are due for payment; and to provide an indicative date for when these payments will be made. [24151/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 379.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a more flexible approach to the rebuild location under the defective blocks scheme, particularly in relation to families with acute health conditions that wish to stay in their homes during construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24746/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses the Housing Authority has authorised for demolition under the defective blocks scheme; the number of houses the Housing Authority has authorised for outer-leaf replacement; the number of houses the Housing Authority has authorised for both outer- and inner-leaf replacement (not demolition); and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount that is allocated to all local authorities to enable the proper structural inspection of new houses; the number of new houses that were inspected by local authorities in each of the years 2018 to 2023 for each local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26610/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that were demolished and rebuilt under the original defective blocks scheme; the number that were demolished and rebuilt under the new enhanced defective blocks scheme (2022) to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26611/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (25 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of flights that have been delayed and rescheduled on the Donegal to Dublin and Dublin to Donegal route since January 2024; the reasons for delays and rescheduling of flights on these routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26943/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (25 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings that have taken place between his officials and officials in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to discuss restoring the homeowner's ability to borrow/switch or sell for a mortgage-backed price under the defective concrete blocks scheme; and if he agrees with the Central Bank assertion that there has been a lack...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Laboratory Facilities (25 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider reopening local authority laboratories on a regional basis to test for building materials and for aggregate in general used in the construction industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27000/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (25 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the situation regarding retrospection should there be an increase in the cap under the defective blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27284/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Sep 2024)

Joe McHugh: 344.To ask the Minister for Finance to consider a personal tax relief for gym and swimming pool membership holders via the existing medical expense rebate structure administered by Revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34740/24]