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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2023 (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 287. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will undertake an impact analysis indexed to prices, to illustrate the impact of measures on households in real terms, rather than nominal terms, thereby addressing the inaccurate analysis that lone parents will be better-off following Budget 2023. [55041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the course of action that owners of apartments with fire defects should take now that they have been presented with bills to fix the issue while they await the announcement of a remedial scheme from his Department. [55533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 446. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a list of options available to the EU and member states, in relation to the destruction of Irish-Aid funded projects by Israel, to secure compensation and protect aid for vulnerable communities in area C, including deduction of the taxpayer’s money lost in demolitions from funding for EU-Israel bilateral cooperation be provided...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 459. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the most recent report by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55182/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the members of the high-level working group chaired by the Secretary General of the Department of Education which is examining the way in which the National Educational Psychological Service can continue to recruit adequate numbers of suitably qualified staff and continue to respond to the educational psychological needs of children in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide for the immediate provision of additional post-primary schools in the Dublin 8 planning zone given that figures supplied by her own Department show that in 2021 the total primary enrolment was 3,421 students, while the secondary enrolment was 1,022 students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55534/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide ongoing monitoring of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on lone parents, with a commitment to provide targeted support in future cost-of-living measures. [55038/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will publish the child maintenance review group report without further delay. [55039/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the Social Welfare Bill 2022 to increase core rates to a minimum of €8, the QCI for children over 12 years by €10, and for children under 12 years by €5. [55034/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the living-alone allowance to one-parent families in receipt of the fuel allowance. [55035/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Poverty (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 773. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will develop a new national child poverty plan, with a dedicated unit that encompasses an integrated and cross-governmental approach to address high levels of poverty in households headed by one parent. [55040/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 931. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the disparity whereby the Irish healthcare system does not have a chief pharmaceutical officer, but does have a chief medical officer, a chief nursing officer, a chief dentistry officer and a chief veterinary officer, who are responsible for overseeing their respective professions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54294/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (10 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: I ask the Minister to provide an update on the work his Department is doing in relation to bring in VAT rules in line with common EU priorities, such as fighting climate change.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (10 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: I thank the Minister for his reply. Taxation, VAT in particular, is one of the levers we can use to drive environmentally friendly business. That is not only for things such as solar panels. It can be a tool for businesses that will facilitate, reduce and reuse, even before we get to recycle, in terms of preventing waste and emissions. In February of last year, the Minister spoke to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by local authorities on HAP, broken down by local authority, the total number of recipients, the average payment and total expenditure in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [55694/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (10 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way his Department can help communities affected by the poor roll-out and implementation of the G-spine BusConnects route [55585/22]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Select Committee (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Apologies have been received from Deputy Ward. I welcome the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, and his officials to the meeting. Witnesses and members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Apologies, but it appears there is a vote in the Chamber. We will suspend because we will all have to go for a vote. Can the Deputy can get it in within the two or three minutes before we are all due down there?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Very briefly. Somebody-----

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: I will suspend the meeting now until after the vote is finished in the main Chamber. We will come back in on Deputy Cairns and then give the Minister another response.