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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether new regulations pertaining to the protection of wild birds and derogations are currently being drafted; if the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government is involved in the drafting; and when the new regulations will be published and implemented. [27873/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can confirm when his Department intends to publish the results of its public consultation on the 2023.24 Wild Birds derogation declarations; if his Department intends conduct any further consultations in respect of new regulations pertaining to derogation declarations; and if he can assure that his Department will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that all new or amended regulations pertinent to the annual State-wide derogations from protections afforded to wild bird species will reflect the explicit affirmation by the European Court of Justice (EU Commission vs. the King of Belgium 1985-87 Case No. 247) that "the higher-ranking interests of public...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 734. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds General derogation Declarations, he will clarify whether he and his Department have accepted the independent legal advices (August 2020 and February 2021 acquired via his predecessor's Consultative Committee on urban gulls) that S.I. No. 254/1986 - European Communities...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 735. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that the 2022.23 Annual State-wide derogation declarations due on 1 May 2022 were delayed for over two months, and given that legal advice was provided that S.I. No. 254/1986 - European Communities (Wildlife Act, 1976) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986 "did not properly transpose the Directive", he will explain the reason...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given the CJEU's 1987 judgement in Case No 247 - the EU Commission vs Belgium, he accepts that noise and faecal pollution, serious attacks on people, including on children in their schools, from high density gull colonies, in Irish towns and cities, are negative impacts far more serious than the impacts of small species...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds derogation declarations for the period 2020.21 to the 2023.24 extension of the 2022.23 Declarations inclusive, he will provide a summary of the evidence and advices considered, rejected, and the reasons for rejection, and accepted, and the reasons for acceptance, by his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 738. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds derogation Declarations for the period 2020.21 to the 2023.24 extension of the 2022.23 Declarations inclusive, he will provide a summary of the evidence and advices considered, rejected, and the reasons for rejection, and accepted, and the reasons for acceptance, by his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 739. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds derogation Declarations for the period 2020.21 to the 2023.24 extension of the 2022.23 Declarations inclusive, he will provide a summary of the evidence and advices considered, rejected, and the reasons for rejection, and accepted, and the reasons for acceptance, by his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 740. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds derogation Declarations for the period 2020.21 to the 2023.24 extension of the 2022.23 Declarations inclusive, he will provide a summary of the evidence and advices considered, rejected, and the reasons for rejection, and accepted, and the reasons for acceptance, by his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 741. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds derogation Declarations for the period 2020.21 to the 2023.24 extension of the 2022.23 Declarations inclusive, he will provide a summary of the evidence and advices considered, rejected, and the reasons for rejection, and accepted, and the reasons for acceptance, by his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 742. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds derogation Declarations for the period 2020.21 to the 2023.24 extension of the 2022.23 Declarations inclusive, he will provide a summary of the evidence and advices considered, rejected, and the reasons for rejection, and accepted, and the reasons for acceptance, by his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 743. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds derogation Declarations for the period 2020.21 to the 2023.24 extension of the 2022.23 Declarations inclusive, he will provide a summary of the evidence and advices considered, rejected, and the reasons for rejection, and accepted, and the reasons for acceptance, by his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 744. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the Annual State-wide Wild Birds derogation Declarations for the period 2020.21 to the 2023.24 extension of the 2022.23 Declarations inclusive, he will provide a summary of the evidence and advices considered, rejected, and the reasons for rejection, and accepted, and the reasons for acceptance, by his...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 821. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current rate of pay for the job initiative scheme; if there are plans to increase this; and the measures she will take to help JI employees in the face of the cost-of-living crisis. [27892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 1118. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the situation whereby nursing home residents in private nursing homes who are medical card holders were wrongly charged for nursing home care; the steps that the family of a deceased nursing home resident who died in 2002 can take to establish if their parent and family members were wrongly charged for this care; if he can provide details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 1160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people with lung injuries and all other injuries arising from e-cigarettes treated by the health service in 2022 and to date in 2023; the location of this treatment that is, primary or secondary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27534/23]

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to make a contribution. This is important legislation. It is a topic on which Sinn Féin has been active for a long time, as the Minister of State will be aware. With that in mind, I will mention my colleagues Deputies Ward, Mitchell and Martin Kenny, who brought forward the Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022. That Bill was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms O'Dea for her very good explanation. It is useful. She spoke about raising awareness. Nobody thinks about redundancy until they get a notification. They just do not. We hear about it happening to other people and we do not think about it. Many people are unaware of their rights. I know of many situations - I am sure Ms O'Dea does too - in which people walk away from their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am conscious that there is a balancing that has to go on. I fully appreciate that many of those suppliers would be sole traders. They are not facing redundancy but when you lose your job, you lose your job. The badge you put on it is not much consolation. I understand that, but on the flip side, in any agreement between a worker and an employer, there will always be compromise. To get...