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Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I was in the Chamber this morning when Martin from the usher's team was congratulated on his retirement. I did not get an opportunity to speak then, but I want to congratulate you. You have given exemplary service, as do all the ushers. Twenty-two years here is a long time. If I get 22 years here, I will be very happy, but I think it will be harder for me to stay the 22 years. I welcome...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Septic Tanks (13 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Like many of my rural colleagues, I was giddy with excitement at the 2023 Ard-Fheis when the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, announced changes to the septic tank grant scheme-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Septic Tanks (13 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Indeed. I have been living ever since with disappointment and a feeling of being unfulfilled, however, given numerous constituents have come to me and pointed out the shortcomings of the scheme. Just 19 grants have been paid out this year by the Department to householders with septic tanks and the Department is coming under increasing pressure to revise the eligibility and application...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Septic Tanks (13 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate him standing in on behalf of the Department of housing. It is somewhat disappointing a Minister was not available to take the question but I am sure the officials will relay my dismay and frustration with this grant scheme. The reality is that in the case of County Longford only a small number of inspections, possibly three, are carried out over...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (11 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 633.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an accommodation offer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24984/24]

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I will be the first from the Government benches to put my hand up to acknowledge we have been far too slow to respond to the immigration crisis. We entered Government in early 2020 with fewer than 3,000 arrivals per annum and a commitment to end direct provision as part of the programme for Government. Over the intervening four years, numbers have soared and we have peppered the country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I want to raise a few local issues but first, before we go into that, in relation to the transition from local authorities to Uisce Éireann, it was announced in February that there would be 700 new jobs across Ireland. Has Uisce Éireann started to recruit for those yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: In that regard, has there been a recruitment campaign since the press release in February?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I have a few local issues. While this issue is local to me, it is probably a broad issue for many of the members here, namely, the change in the criteria for taking in charge group water schemes. l will speak specifically about the Forgney group water scheme in Longford. When it began with the first expression of interest, it had 14 households. That has now grown to 17 but they were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I am happy for Mr. Gleeson to come back to me in writing about the others. Were he to bring a take-away from today's meeting on the group water schemes, it seems a no-brainer to take these schemes into charge. There is a local committee there that has been working assiduously on trying to get this scheme in charge since 2018 or 2019. They have done everything possible to get it to this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a minor works grant application to repair a roof by a school (details supplied). [26415/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: As the Tánaiste knows, the escalation of decarbonisation brought forward the closure of the Lough Ree power plant in Lanesborough, County Longford to 2020, resulting in a five-year loss of rates in the region of €1.2 million per annum to Longford County Council. Thankfully, in each of the four budgets since, central government stepped into the breach and provided €1.2...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We have had seven months of uncertainty and disquiet for staff, service users and family members of service users at St. Christopher’s Services in Longford. Figures have been bandied over and back with the HSE. We have been assured that a new funding structure is to be put in place. At the moment, they are running the service with a shortfall of at least €140,000 per month....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I raise the case of a successful County Longford businesswoman who has endured an unrelenting nightmare since she underwent what was meant to be a root canal procedure in May 2019. It left her with permanent injury that will require treatment and medication for the rest of her life, but that is not the worst of it. The worst is the absolute failure of any regulatory body, in this case the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I did clarify earlier that I was not going to do so. The same dentist is involved in numerous High Court and Circuit Court cases relating to allegations of negligence in the provision of medical care. To date, my constituent and I are unaware of any actions or sanctions by the Dental Council against this dentist. In fact, a letter from the Dental Council of October 2023 clearly stated it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I had hoped for a more robust response from the Department. Given its commitment to the comprehensive review and “reform of oral healthcare services, including legislative reform, as set out in the national oral health policy”, I would have expected the Department to be much more stringent in its terms and specifically set out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses and apologise for missing the opening statement. I was in the Chamber. Needless to say, I am come at this from a pronounced rural perspective. I am particularly concerned at what appears to be the exclusion of the National Association of Regional Game Councils, NARGC, from the process to date. I am fielding multiple calls about it in my constituency. I am...