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Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I want to go back to the question of the 90-day period. I appreciate all the good work that has been done and I want to acknowledge that. However, if it is to be mandatory for them to leave that accommodation after 90 days, it will create huge problems depending on the location of the centres. If they are not near resources, and because there is huge competition for rented accommodation...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: My problem is------

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Sure, and I acknowledge that, too.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome that. Could the Minister raise a point for me? I am concerned. I understand why this is happening, I understand the points she is making, I support what the Government is doing and I recognise that the difficulties in creating accommodations for 70,000 people in such a short space of time are phenomenal. Yet, that does not get away from the fact that mothers with young children...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any consideration has been given to the introduction of a DNA strategy to address the issue of dog fouling across the country; if he will fund such a strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3802/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (30 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to comment on a health initiative concept for haulage drivers (details supplied) and advise on the best way to progress such a concept; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Union (30 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 246. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the discussions that have taken place with member states in respect of the EU steel safeguarding tariff; whether the measures are set to continue in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4165/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (30 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 516. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review a case (details supplied) where a person has been denied HSE assistance despite their significant requirements and diagnosis of FND; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3854/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Nursing Homes (30 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 551. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of his Department’s/HSE analysis on the safe staffing and skill mix of nurses and others working in nursing homes, public and private and in care homes; to give an update on findings and recommendations to date; when the final analysis will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (31 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the needs of coeliac diagnosed children with regard to the ever-growing and welcome roll-out of the school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4404/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if any consideration has been given to providing a national screening programme for coeliac disease, similar to that of the Italian system where they included a screening programme for one- to 17 year-olds for coeliac disease into their national legislation in late 2023 (details supplied), with consideration that Ireland has one of the highest incidence...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (1 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on any discussion within his Department in respect of the ongoing and urgent need to remove the Hebble Dredge from the River Boyne in Drogheda following its original sinking in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4441/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and his Department can ensure that any and all resources are provided to ensure that an appropriate site is found to recommence driver testing in Drogheda, which is the largest town in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4440/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (1 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance the ways that he is making processes easier for coeliacs to claim tax rebates, with particular consideration to the increasing cost of gluten-free foods which is hitting those on marginal incomes hardest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4445/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering any further easing of VAT rates for retrofitting or renewable energy works or products for domestic purposes, to assist homeowners in reducing reliance on energy providers in what is a crippling energy crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4444/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (1 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects to make a final decision on the ESB pensions increase request received in January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4831/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will do the private business first, if that is agreed. Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: We are now in public session. Apologies have been received from Deputy Frank Feighan, Mr. Mickey Brady, MP, and Ms Claire Hanna, MP. On behalf of our committee I welcome Mr. Martin Robinson, director of strategy, and Dr. Stuart Mathieson, research manager, InterTradeIreland to discuss the all-Ireland economy. I thank both of them for attending today. Separately, I would like to...