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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the duration of the Tús programme for people with disabilities (details supplied). [40502/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if urgent consideration will be given to extending illness benefit to self-employed people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43103/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Grant Payments (22 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grants her Department has provided to social enterprise representative bodies since October 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43274/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on an application for citizenship for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (22 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 713. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the average and median time that elapses between the receipt of a complaint by the Medical Council and the making of an initial determination by the PPC or CEO, respectively; following such initial determination, the average and median length of time that the FTPC stage takes; if he will provide such figures for 2022, 2023 and 2024; and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I want to ask the Tánaiste a very specific question about the draft Air Pollution Act (amendment) Bill. It has been widely reported, certainly by the local media where I live, that this legislation could potentially grant local authorities the power to search people's homes and seize or destroy unapproved materials. What I am talking about is turf, which people use to heat their homes....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: That is not what I asked. I asked about homeowners.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: Figures do not lie.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: In what may well be my last Leaders' Questions in the Dáil, I return to familiar territory, an issue I have raised with the Tánaiste and others many times, namely, the delivery of balanced regional development. I understand that the delivery of a balance of development between regions is not something that can be accomplished overnight, particularly when there are significant gaps....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: Oh-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: This always happens. The Tánaiste lists a few projects. Of course, I do not dispute that they are happening but he ignores the overall abysmal picture. He ignores the facts and does not deal with them. He does not come back to me and say "Well, Deputy Harkin, actually you are wrong about the completions in housing, wrong about the fact that we do not spend a reasonable amount in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: An easy question for the Minister to answer.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: No, the Deputy is finished. The Deputy has had his interventions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I am sorry. Apologies, I cannot.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: Twice in his response the Minister mentioned balanced regional development. Then he went on to tell us about projects in Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick as well as Dublin. There was no mention of Sligo. My question is about the Sligo to Dublin rail line. There are two issues that are crucial. We need a train to arrive in Sligo, at least from Longford or Carrick-on-Shannon, for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to the addition of an early morning train service between Longford and Sligo that would allow arrival in Sligo for workers, students and people with early medical appointments, before the current first train which arrives from Dublin at 10.17 am. [41698/24]

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice for drafting this motion, which I fully support. The motion proposes maintaining the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector. This is in the wider context of the huge increases in the past 12 to 18 months in the cost of doing business but specifically this morning, we are looking at the 9% VAT rate. In that context, let us look at our VAT rate on hospitality in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (15 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to clarify his policy position ahead of a planning application decision by An Bord Pleanála, given his recent comments about the fact that a liquified natural gas, LNG, storage facility may no longer be needed as back-up in a natural energy crisis, and given that An Bord Pleanála's decision on a current...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (15 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 622. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 29 May 2024, the reason for the delay in appointing a temporary consultant for the pain clinic at SUH (details supplied); when in 2025 the consultants will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41221/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (15 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 623. To ask the Minister for Health if it is envisaged to reopen the pain clinic at Sligo University Hospital when the temporary consultant is appointed in early 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41222/24]