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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Emer Higgins: On those 100 landlords, if a landlord went to the RTB during the year to say that the tenancies had ended and to take them off the books, they were not contacted for feedback?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Emer Higgins: Therefore, we are not capturing a huge amount of people who have left to check in to see why they left then. The vast majority would not have been checked in with, is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Emer Higgins: Did that focus group include people who had finished their tenancies during the year or was it people the RTB contacted routinely and found that they should have delisted with RTB?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Emer Higgins: It is just important to try to get a handle on the validity of that particular step since we are all so concerned about why landlords are leaving the market. It would be great to have that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (6 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to tackle the rise in anti-social behaviour in our capital city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60629/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the exclusion of glass bottles in the recently announced deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60562/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (6 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if extenuating priority consideration can be given to applicants for the one stop shop full grant house BER improvement scheme in cases in which a person is terminally ill and requires their home to be made warmer and more comfortable for health reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60588/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 260. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 29 November 2022, if he will provide a sectoral breakdown as between pharmaceutical, financial services, aircraft leasing, migration-work permits, interstate adoptions, miscellaneous notarial certs and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60664/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (6 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures are in place to assist people who feel their pension was devalued by mismanagement through wind up, (details supplied). [60584/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider adapting the living-alone allowance criteria to allow a person to rent a room in their home to an international healthcare worker who has come to Ireland to work, without this impacting on their living alone allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (6 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are in place to support mothers of children under three years of age who cannot find childcare before they return to work after maternity leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60193/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 88. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that his Department is taking to address the long wait times for respite services for people with intellectual disabilities in the CHO 7 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (8 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that a group of 95 apartment owners can avail of domestic rate electricity usage in respect of their apartments but have to pay commercial rate usage on the lighting of common areas, halls, stairways landings, corridors and so on in their apartment block; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61560/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: Post-primary schools in Dublin Mid-West are bursting at the seams. Secondary schools in Lucan, Clondalkin, Rathcoole and Citywest are all operating waiting lists. That means school administration teams are under pressure. It means parents are stressed out and that we are creating anxiety for children. Research carried out independently in Clondalkin suggests there could be a shortfall...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: I am glad to contribute to this debate today. I thank the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, for making his officials available for briefings on this Bill to the Oireachtas committee, and for engaging with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage to address all our questions, our concerns and our ideas. I understand the concerns about the limits on debate time and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (13 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 101. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the action plan on insurance reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61855/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (13 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to backdate the pension payments of those who were retired during the banking collapse of 2007 and 2008 and who had their pension cut due to austerity measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61678/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports that are available in the interim to an individual who is awaiting the result of a post-mortem following their husband’s death and who cannot claim their husband’s life insurance policy to cover funeral expenses and so on until the full death certificate is issued (details supplied); and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Death Certificates (13 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that can be taken to speed up the issuing of a full death certificate in cases in which months have elapsed and the interim death certificate will not suffice in order to process insurance claims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61940/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Bodies (13 Dec 2022)

Emer Higgins: 539. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a request for engagement with a group (details supplied) in light of ongoing negotiations on the World Health Organization's pandemic treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61692/22]