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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied) and the requirement for special classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the renewal of the working family payment for a person (details supplied); when the payment can be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57953/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (22 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 752. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of staff in each children's disability network team in Dublin north and county, including social workers, psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and so on, by full-time equivalent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58086/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 780. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the present position on the change in legislation to remove the requirement for planning permission when replacing dead and dying ash plantations with conifers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57370/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the Minister and his officials. We are discussing an important issue and I very much support both industries and the funding that goes to them. I am on record as saying we should increase it because the financial worth Ireland gets in return is colossal. I have a number of questions about the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund. The Minister will be aware that this committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Will she be a paid employee or just a member of the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: That is good news.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Has the Minister any plans to review the current legislation as it stands?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: That is okay. There was another issue around the drug testing capacity at tracks. There were a number of recommendations on that. We were given a commitment by IHRB that it would provide the committee with quarterly updates, or we asked it to do so, regarding the installation of CCTV at all of its racetracks. I understood that would be fully rolled out sometime in 2022. Does the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: That is good news. Regarding the issuing of horse passports and so on, we found that things were very loosely done compared to what happens in the general livestock industry for cattle and everything like that. Does the Minister know if that has been tightened up? HRI and the IHRB were not able to tell us specifically the number of horses on the island of Ireland at the time or about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Is the Minister content with the amount of testing that has been carried out at tracks and yards? Has that increased year on year? I know the Minister may not have any figures to hand, but if he does, he might forward them to the committee secretariat which can distribute them to the committee members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I understood, at the time, most of the lab analysis of drug tests were carried out off the island of Ireland. Is any of it carried out on the island of Ireland at present? We have come on in leaps and bounds in lab analysis with regard to Covid. It beggars belief we are not able to carry out those tests on the island of Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: That was not on the island of Ireland. Am I right in saying that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I do not think the tests were carried out on the island.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have a couple of questions on the greyhound industry-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Can I have two minutes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: The industry is very close to my own heart. An Opposition Deputy from Wexford absolutely opposed the closing of Enniscorthy greyhound track, as I did at the time. However, when he had an opportunity to support enhanced funding for the track, he voted against it. It beggars belief how he could support it one day and then vote against the funding for the industry a couple of months later....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If we were to increase the salary, we would get a better, credible candidate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If somebody else in the organisation is on more money than the CEO, something is wrong within the organisation. It may be historical - I do not know. However, the CEO should be the most senior and the highest paid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I ask the Minister to reflect on the public and private tracks because the private tracks are doing a fantastic job. My track in Enniscorthy was threatened with closure and I know it will come before the IGB but it has done a considerable amount of work. I commend it on what it has done.