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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (7 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: 95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the specific concrete measures that will be taken by the Government and An Post to ensure the viability of the post office network, particularly given the new contract for postmasters which is due to start in January 2023. [18219/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (7 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: What specific concrete measures are being taken or will be taken by the Government and by An Post to ensure the viability of the post office network? The context in which I ask that question, as the Minister is well aware, is that recently there was a meeting of the Irish Postmasters Union, IPU, at which there was overwhelming support for industrial action. They are balloting their members...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (7 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: I heard what the Minister of State said. She said that the Government is committed to a sustainable post office network. The next thing she said was that she met representatives of An Post and that they fully understand the Government's position. The Minister of State probably has clarified it a bit there but why has she not met the Irish postmasters? The sentence the Minister of State...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (7 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: I do not doubt that the Minister of State wants to see a sustainable post office network. My issue is not with her personally. It is with how this is being done, or, how it is not being done. We have a situation where next year, postmasters will be basically relying on payment for transactions. Has the Government looked at a public service obligation, PSO, levy? Why has the...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this motion. We have had several motions on the rising cost of energy and fuel and the huge impact that has on the cost of living for ordinary people. It drives some people into energy poverty. Energy poverty means that people cannot afford to heat their homes or to turn on the hot water for their shower. It means they live in fear of rising...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (27 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: Despite significant local opposition from landowners and business people and a unanimous vote from Leitrim County Council to oppose the application, the Minister, Deputy Ryan, has granted a prospecting licence for gold, silver and base metals in 47 townlands in north Leitrim. I know it is a prospecting licence and not a mining licence but it is a foot in the door for Flintridge Resources, a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (26 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: 267. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an application for a prospecting licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19938/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Residency (26 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: 485. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 31 March 2022, if it is unlawful to give specific weighting to the presence of a person in the State on any specific days of the month or year for example, by deeming their presence in the State on the first and last day of a month as normal residence for that entire month in relation to SI. No. 60/1993; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (26 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: 486. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 31 March 2022, the manner in which information on the number and value of refunds of compromise penalties is recorded in the Revenue Commissioners’ systems; if there were no refunds of compromise penalties between 2015 and 2021, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19660/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Transport Costs (26 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: 547. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 23 March 2022, if he will carry out a review on the travel expenses of public health nurses and community RGNs as a matter of urgency (details supplied) given the current increases in fuel costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19643/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: The programme for Government committed to support family carers. We have also been told that a home care package will be in place by the end of the year. In that context, I ask the Minister about the Government and the Green Party position on the important issues relating to carer's allowance. Carer's allowance is means-tested. That means any household with a total gross income, before...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. I have heard what he has said about targeting. Whether the Government gets rid of the means test or increases further the income disregards, we will see the outcome when the modelling is done. The Government needs to take one of those measures because that is what the Citizens' Assembly has asked it to do. The Citizens' Assembly also made another important point....