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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 804. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be made available to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59077/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 808. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an organisation (details supplied) will qualify for the community and voluntary energy support scheme; if not, the reason therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59328/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (30 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 17 November 2022, the specific data points from the Revenue Commissioners' data holdings, data analytics and risk assessment that system-prompted the decision by the Revenue Commissioners to implement seize and release VRT enforcement performance targets for 2017 to 2019, which prompted the decision to cease the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (30 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance further Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 17 November 2022, if seize and release VRT enforcement performance targets have been set for any other years since the introduction of the seize and release procedure; if so, the performance targets set for each such year; if seize and release performance targets were set by region, unit or other; if seize and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (30 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify an issue in relation to accommodation for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59586/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (30 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a decision on a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59614/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will qualify for the temporary scheme of paid leave for public health service employees unfit for work following Covid infection; if the situation for such HSE employees will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59639/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I am substituting for Deputy McNamara.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care of the Elderly (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: Many day centres in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Donegal and elsewhere have not reopened or only partially reopened since the Covid-19 pandemic. Before I go into detail as to the location of these centres, it is important to make clear why I am raising this matter. It is very simple. Day care centres are a lifeline for many older people. Above all, they provide company, a social...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care of the Elderly (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the Minister of State. She mentioned, as I did, the importance of day care centres which is a social setting. It gives people an opportunity get out of their homes and makes such a difference to their mental health, as well as their physical health. That is all a given. The Minister of State stated that one of the reasons that some day care centres...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Social Democrats for raising this important matter. Unfortunately, it is a daily issue for many families and virtually every school. Highlighting it in the Dáil is important because not every school is prepared to come forward and say that it has trouble sourcing teachers, including substitute teachers. Some schools do not want to admit that children are sometimes being...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I am again raising the crisis in the private and voluntary nursing home sector, where 17 homes have closed this year. These homes tend to be independent, small and family run. While some of the chains are replacing some of the lost beds, that is not happening in rural or smaller areas where family-run homes are closing. More and more older people will not be able to remain reasonably close...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 115. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team in every CHO; and if such teams already exist, the details of the specific location of each. [61054/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 801 of 8 November 2022, when funding will be phased in for graduate entry medicine and if a reduction of student contribution fees is expected by September 2023. [60930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 801 of 8 November 2022, if extra Government funding for universities, such as University College Dublin, will be ringfenced to ensure lower student contribution fees going forward. [60931/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 505. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 808 of 29 November 2022, if further details of the schemes (details supplied) referred to in the response will be provided. [60992/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 538. To ask the Minister for Health if he will re-open the Mater Private Hospital to HSE patients given the backlog of critical cancer surgeries (details supplied). [60242/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Opportunities within the European Union for Irish People: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank Professor O'Brennan and it is good to see him again. As he said he has been to Brussels a number of times and I have made my way to Maynooth as well for various meetings. One of his proposals was about a visit to the battlefields of World War One. I fully sponsored a programme called "My Adopted Soldier." RTE covered it. There were two half-hour programmes. It was one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Opportunities within the European Union for Irish People: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: The last point Professor O'Brennan made is true. The number of European officials and MEPs who have been to Ireland on the Erasmus+ programme is substantial. I have yet to meet one who did not have something positive to say about Ireland. People are positively disposed to Ireland. That really does matter. The point about the value of having Irish people in the Commission has to be seen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Opportunities within the European Union for Irish People: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: The fact that is the way the European Commission is supposed to work benefits smaller countries much more than larger countries. One of the branches I dealt with most was the Directorate General for the Environment. There were quite a number of Irish officials there. It was important because they had the knowledge and the perspective. That perspective was not always in favour of the Irish...