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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cost of Living Issues (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to providing the proposed €600 energy credit to those living off-grid and fuelling their own generators for electricity supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the rate of remote working relief in view of the increase in inflation and cost of living. [49451/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 357. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the retention and recruitment crisis in the Defence Forces, and considering their experience and knowledge, the involvement that veterans and serving members have in recruitment in the Defence Forces. [49449/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 358. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the efforts he has made to stem the exodus of personnel from the Defence Forces. [49450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide clarification as to the social welfare recipients who are eligible for the lump-sum payment announced as part of Budget 2023. [49795/22]

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

Sorca Clarke: 14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional staff have been recruited or seconded to community welfare sections in INTREO offices to deal with the additional applications for supplementary welfare allowances; and if not, if she plans to bring in additional staff to deal with the extra workload. [50731/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the time allowed on community employment for those aged over 50 years. [50730/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (13 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking to address the staffing crisis in the childcare sector to ensure the continued provision of adequate childcare across the State. [50733/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the plan to abolish direct provisions centres across the State. [50732/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a grant will be made available to those households upgrading to a wood pellet stove; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50696/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections of rental accommodation by local authority that have taken place in 2021 and to date in 2022; and the number of inspectors allocated to carry out inspections of rental accommodation in each local authority in tabular form. [50695/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of supplementary welfare allowance applications to date in 2022, by county; the number of applications awarded; the number refused; the total amount paid out; and the reason given for the payments, in tabular form [50694/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the continued shortage of wood pellets for use in wood pellet stoves and the impact this will have this winter on householders who have removed solid fuel heating systems and rely on wood pellet stoves to heat their homes. [50697/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chair. It is a pleasure. I am not a member of this committee; I am substituting for somebody else. It is my first time here. Could I return to something Mr. Moloney said to my colleague, Deputy Mairéad Farrell. It related to the disciplinary options open to a Minister and written warnings. I fully accept that I may have picked up Mr. Moloney incorrectly. If I did,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: It was starting to appear a bit like a spider's web to me, whereby you could be branching off into all kinds of separate angles at a rate of knots. Mr. Moloney referred to civil servants above principal officer grade not being subject to the disciplinary code. Did I hear that correctly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Is it the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: What is the process involved regarding Secretaries General? I am struggling to understand. There seem to be so many processes or potential processes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Am I correct in saying there is not really much of a structured approach and that situations could be dealt with on a case-by-case basis?