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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (5 Nov 2024)

John Lahart: 564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the apartment defects legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44348/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (5 Nov 2024)

John Lahart: 564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the apartment defects legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44348/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2024)

John Lahart: 637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the procedures for means testing for disability allowance are carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44089/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2024)

John Lahart: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the procedures for means testing for carer’s allowance are carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (5 Nov 2024)

John Lahart: 882. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the ARP programme for refugees; how many individuals have availed of it in 2024; the overall cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43966/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: I thank the members of Fórsa for coming in and for the presentation. I have broad sympathy for many of the points made. I just wish to clarify a few things. Robert Watt was quoted. I was here the day he made that presentation. I can understand why the witnesses would select that quote, but he made many other substantial contributions in terms of trying to not curtail costs, and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: I am glad the Cathaoirleach said it. One of the things I would have said, having been a member of this committee for five years, is that while I am not here as an apologist for Bernard Gloster, I found him to be a breath of fresh air to deal with as CEO of the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: That is a question. Fórsa was extremely concerned by reports last week that HSE HR has directed all vacant posts to be switched off on the SAP payroll system. That would alarm me if it is true. Do the witnesses have evidence they can give us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: We are on the record here. That is what I am concerned about. I would like clarification of exactly what that means. How does the SAP payroll system work? Are vacancies visible? Is that what Ms Connolly is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: To drill down more into that, to whom is that data available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: If we tabled a parliamentary question about vacancies in the HSE, would that be a place the HSE would go to and where it should be able to see vacancies? Ms Connolly is saying now that that data has been removed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: I am not arguing with Ms Connolly on this. That is alarming if that is the case because if vacancies existed, they are now not visible as existing, so the system is suggesting there are no vacancies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: As a member of the committee, though I am not speaking for the committee, I am sure the HSE is watching and if that is true, I am sure the committee wants to hear an account of what that is about. Either the vacancies are visible or they are not. If they are not, why has that happened? The other side of this relates to private contractors. I will let the witnesses come back because I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: The policy choice is to say to the HSE that it can employ 6,000 additional people this year, and the HSE employed 8,500, or that it did not have the budget to employ 2,000 additional staff during Covid, but it employed them, so the Government is going to cover that cost. The Department and Government are saying the HSE cannot continue to employ thousands of people over the budgets it has...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how car batteries are finally recycled, and what happens to each of their individual parts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42659/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Motor Fuels (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the latest developments in relation the development of synthetic fuel as a possibility to use as a fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42660/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the schools which have accommodated special need classes since 2021 for the areas Dublin 6w, Dublin 12, Dublin 24, Dublin 16 and Dublin 14; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42509/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building refurbishments and new builds that have commenced and have subsequently been completed since 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42597/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether, as requested previously, he has moved to include the Glenasmole Valley in south county Dublin on the border with Wicklow in the deer control programme, which includes fifteen ‘hotspots’ nationally; when is this likely to happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42856/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 701. To ask the Minister for Health how an organisation (details supplied) accesses the funding for a number of its services from his Department or the HSE as it is its first occasion to be granted funding and it does not have a direct line to a HSE clinical lead or departmental official; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42621/24]