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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend the €1,000 rebate for undergraduate students to those studying at masters and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48199/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Budget 2023 announcement of a €500 stipend increase to PhD students under Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council funding will be extended to include all PHD students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48347/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Consultations (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the Judicial Planning Working Group; when the report following the public consultation will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48412/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the exploration of the potential of an online portal for road users to upload footage of road traffic offences as published in the Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030 on 14 December 2021 (details supplied). [48456/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (5 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will make a decision on the recommendations made in a report (details supplied) on the pay and conditions of secretarial assistants in the Houses of the Oireachtas. [48933/22]

Report of the Joint Committee on Justice on GDPR: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: Given the session is due to finish at 9 p.m.-----

Report of the Joint Committee on Justice on GDPR: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: I will be as quick as I can. I acknowledge the work of the committee secretariat in compiling this report and the support they have given committee members. It is also important to acknowledge the role of the GDPR in protecting civil rights and our fundamental freedoms. If we look at the issues of real-time bidding and the use of these things in disinformation, misinformation, the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (6 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that Ireland is taking in its role on the United Nations Security Council in relation to Western Sahara. [48633/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (6 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that his Department has made in relation to the options that are being considered to tackle defects such as fire safety failures, water ingress and structural issues in several Celtic Tiger-era apartment buildings. [49147/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (6 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 187. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that his Department has made in relation to the drafting of legislation required to create a longer-term repair scheme for defective Celtic Tiger-era apartment buildings. [49148/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the eligibility requirements in relation to the €750,000 for the scheme that was announced for counselling and psychology training places in a new HSE initiative; the timeline for the distribution of same; the breakdown of the funding, including wage supports, fee reduction, subsidies and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49207/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: The online portal was exactly something I wanted to ask about, and while I have a big cross through my list of questions, this is one that has not been asked, so we will start there. The online portal in many ways dovetails with stuff those from Dublin Bus have talked about, such as automatic number plate recognition, ANPR, and some of the stuff the Garda representatives mentioned in their...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: Commitments have been made to examining defects in housing. This is a major issue in my constituency, especially for people living in apartment complexes. Residents in Park West are facing bills of in the region of €30,000 per apartment for problems and defects that are not of their own making. A remedial scheme should have been provided in budget 2023 but was not. The Minister has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department last assessed the need for an additional secondary school in Dublin 8; and if her Department will do so again on foot of the publication of the latest Census results. [49956/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protections which will be extended to pay-as-you-go energy customers to prevent disconnections this winter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Fines (11 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase the fine for parking bus lanes in line with doubling of the fixed-charge penalty for parking on footpaths, cycle lanes or bus lanes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49464/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (11 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase the frequency of route 60, the new G-Spine BusConnects service which will replace route 79/79a (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50086/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will announce a package to deal with the issue of apartment fire defects in Celtic tiger-era apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50064/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (11 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative timeline for the progression of the family courts Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50124/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: A Vision for Change (11 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 627. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide updated figures on the number of whole-time equivalent psychologist positions filled in CAMHS given that only 92.3 of the 190 positions recommend in the vision for change model 15 years ago have been filled as of February 2022. [49512/22]