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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether there is any funding stream available to assist a school in purchasing additional land for a safe drop-off area when existing conditions are unsafe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is on a reduced rate of pension (non-contributory); the reason this was reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54282/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (7 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he is considering financial aid for a sector (details supplied) given the significant challenges being faced by the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54232/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is enough choice and supply of post-primary school places for the growing population of Pelletstown, Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54573/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider increasing a school (details supplied) to three streams to accommodate a rise in the number of young children in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55385/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a new school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55386/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the permanent site for a school (details supplied) which has been in temporary accommodation for three years without any update on its future and final location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55387/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for allocating special education teaching hours to a school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55388/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline of correspondence, communications and events since a commitment was given by her Department in 2021 to provide a school (details supplied) with a permanent extension by 2024 and facilitate its growth to a 1,500 student post-primary school, including any decisions taken by either her Department or the patron, DDLETB, to change that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update of the work of the Anti-Social Behaviour Forum and subgroup on knife crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54575/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance whether there is any mechanism to prevent a bank from selling a performing loan to a debt collecting agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55876/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there has been any communication between her Department and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform on how retired gardaí have to draw the jobseeker’s payment for nine months in order to avail of their supplementary pension; if she is aware of the issues that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what efforts are being made to urgently resolve a dispute (details supplied) due to the pressure on the industry and farmers affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56077/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weather Events (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is looking into actions to mitigate the damage caused by adverse weather events (hail) in Wexford in June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56081/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I wish Mr. Gorman all the best as president, and Ms Alice Doyle, my constituent, as vice-president of the organisation. Mr. Gorman will not always get plaudits like this when he appears before a committee. He will probably be shouting and roaring at us, but that is the way it goes. On his first committee outing, I wish him the best of luck. I say that genuinely. I am interested in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: On forestry, I agree that farmers have totally lost confidence in planting and everything like that. That confidence has been totally eroded. I know how it can be restored and, if we are to reach our targets, we need farmers onside. They are the people on the ground who will help and assist the Government and the State in reaching our targets. What are the pertinent questions the IFA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I have just one further question. It has to do with the industry but it is a bit outside the remit of what we are discussing. I ask Mr. Gorman for a very quick reply. He has been through elections and everything like that. When he was going around the country doing his meetings, was forestry a big issue? I am not asking about this specific issue but forestry in general. Was it being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I am not sure if they have had the opportunity to listen to the delegation from the IFA. I have just been listening in online for the last while and I do not want to be repetitive in the questions I will ask. Does the Department believe there is merit in the IFA approach for carrying out the review, putting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Are the Department officials happy with the checks that are in place at the moment on the importation of timber? Are the checks making sure the beetle is not in some of the imported products and timber being imported at this time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I do not want to harp on about it but ash dieback has been mentioned by every contributor here this evening and by the IFA well. I raised one point with the new president of the IFA on the issue of forestry implantation in general. If the Department did not hear his reply, I would ask Mr. Delany and his officials to listen to his reply. It was alarming for the first-time president to...