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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (23 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the persons and companies he held a meeting with at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57048/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (23 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the percentage share of the average demand from each sector of the electricity market, that is, domestic, non-domestic, medium and large commercial for the 2020-2021 public service obligation levy year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57084/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (23 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount raised in 2019 by Bus Éireann by charging passengers a fee to place a non-folding bicycle in the hold of a bus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57636/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the cycle to work scheme in 2019 and 2020; the number of persons who availed of it in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57029/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the cycle to work threshold for bicycles from the current €1,250 to €1,500; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57030/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the cycle to work threshold for ebikes from the current €1,500 to €1,750 and from €1,500 to €2,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57031/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the cycle-to-work scheme to self-employed persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57032/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (23 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 648. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the site in Ratoath, County Meath purchased by the HSE with a view to building a primary care centre; the status of plans to deliver a primary care centre on this site; if the HSE will engage with the local community with a view to allowing the use of the space as public greenspace in the meantime; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: The diesel rebate scheme is an important tool to protect and sustain hauliers and others in the transport sector but it is not fit for purpose and should be overhauled. There is a maximum of 7.5 cent allowed per litre when diesel is greater than €1.43 per litre. Diesel is now at €1.70, as the Tánaiste likely knows, so the limit should be reviewed. We are encouraging...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (24 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the areas in which the €360 million in active travel funding will be spent in 2022, in tabular form; the amount from each Department that makes up the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57665/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the shortage of SNAs in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57911/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the school bus transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57912/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (25 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have been discharged from the Meath disability team during the transition to child development networks without having received treatment; if the decision was made to remove some children from lists for example, psychology, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy on the basis that they had not been in receipt of an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons contact traced using the passenger locater form in each month in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58430/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 540. To ask the Minister for Health the number of passenger locater forms submitted in each month of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58431/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (30 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 566. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce legislation to ensure the mandatory registration of payments or transfers of value from pharmaceutical companies to healthcare professionals or healthcare organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58534/21]

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Mandatory hotel quarantine is an important tool in our defence against the virus, particularly when the number of cases is low or, as is the case now, when dangerous variants break out. Sinn Féin will support this legislation and has tabled a number of amendments, as my colleague Deputy Cullinane outlined. The emergence of the Omicron variant is a concern and we must take appropriate...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I have a number of questions and concerns in relation to the provisions of this amendment, particularly as it relates to the price of fuel at the pump. Commuters and those involved in transport are seeing the price of petrol and diesel increasing at the forecourt every day. They are looking to the Government for some relief but they do not see it. Here we have a proposal to offset but as...