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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Bronagh Hinds (2 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: Before we go on, I will stop the clock if I may. Deputy Wynne has to leave for very good family reasons. If it is in order, I will allow her to come in now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Bronagh Hinds (2 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Bronagh Hinds (2 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: Is that a question of an Executive allocation or is it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Bronagh Hinds (2 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: On that point, we met a group of young people from the North - I will not mention the community - but they could not access funding because they were not part of the inside track in terms of knowledge or part of the system that was operating the funding. It is very difficult to understand why they were being left out and were being given inadequate support when they were dealing with drugs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Bronagh Hinds (2 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I appreciate Ms Hinds's comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Bronagh Hinds (2 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I also thank Ms Hinds for her contribution. She touched on a significant number of issues about which we need to think more. She certainly informed our debate. It will make me think far more about society overall and what we should be doing, particularly in terms of women's rights, access and so on. It is a small point but 40% of candidates at the next general election in the South must...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the commitment the Taoiseach has reiterated this morning. The fact is that 24 residents died in St. Mary's community nursing unit in the first phase of the pandemic in 2020. A protected disclosure was made and was discussed by the HSE at a meeting held on 14 May 2020. The minutes of that meeting show that advice was given to take emails relating to that review and investigation...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if the total number of persons who have successfully claimed the rent tax credit recently introduced by the Government; if this measure will be strengthened into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11343/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (7 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the total moneys received by the Revenue Commissioners in January and February 2023 through benefit-in-kind payments for vehicles compared with receipts from January and February 2021 and 2022; if any further consideration has been given to assist the many thousands of BIK recipients who have been negatively impacted financially since the change on 1...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (7 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will arrange for the appropriate official within the Department to make contact with a school (details supplied) to organise a discussion on greenwashing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11023/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (7 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the long-awaited transfer of ownership of the historic Westgate House, Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11375/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (7 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to concerns raised (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11049/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (7 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 622. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns raised (details supplied) on bilingual packaging on alcohol warnings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11212/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 647. To ask the Minister for Health if the audit of TAPS payments undertaken by both the NTPF and the HSE has been delivered to him; if so, if he will publish the audit in full; if it is not complete, if he will indicate an expected date of the report to be before him, and subsequently published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11431/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any further plans to amend existing regulations exempting certain types of vacant commercial premises from planning permission in order to maximise the number of vacant units being brought back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11866/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: One hundred years ago, many people lived above commercial premises in the centre of Drogheda. Today, very few people live there. What further and additional regulations can he amend- obviously, I exclude those relating to health and safety - in order to encourage more people to live in the centre of our towns and over commercial premises nationally.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I congratulate the Minister of State on his recent appointment. I have not sat here in the Chamber with him for a number of years, and he and I both know how we feel and think about things. I recently met the owners of property in the centre of Drogheda. They are local people who own substantial levels of property. They were aware of the exemptions but they felt they did not have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: These properties are vacant today. I hear what the Minister of State is saying but we need a driver. I am not condemning the current vacant homes officers, but most of them were doing other jobs previously. That is the reality. They were not doing anything in this area. I accept and acknowledge what the Minister of State said about housing, particularly in the context of his recent...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to respond to issues raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to the Drogheda driver test centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11769/23]