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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (19 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: 79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department’s engagement with the Department of Social Protection in terms of assisting people with the transition from social welfare support into employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24956/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to upskill and retrain women who are unemployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24951/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to encourage individuals towards careers in construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24952/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the three witnesses for coming here to talk to us. It is really valuable to us because they are sharing their lived experience. We have been given the job of coming up with a report and recommendations on international surrogacy in quite a tight timeframe. It is possible for us to achieve that only if we hear from everybody involved. It is really brave of the witnesses to share...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank Ms Roberts. That is a really helpful statement to hear.

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion about the just transition mechanism. It is a dynamic and proactive framework that identifies opportunities for public and private investment that is both sustainable and inclusive. It is a fair and effective way of ensuring that everyone can work together to fight the climate emergency. The just transition fund is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (18 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has responsibility for delivering a World War I commemorative memorial in Corkagh Park, Clondalkin Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the community employment scheme; and the number of persons currently availing of the scheme. [24226/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (17 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: 323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an issue in which local authorities are not progressing the CPO of properties due to the fact the property has no registry of deeds or the property has a financial charge on it; the advice from his Department to local authorities’ concerning this particular issue; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: 437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the lease for the land at a location (details supplied) and used at the moment for classrooms, will be extended from February 2023 to accommodate the completion of the new school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24205/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: 438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to use a location (details supplied) which is owned by her Department to extend the sports and play facilities in the school given that the land in question contains an attenuation tank and cannot be developed but would provide a very valuable amenity to the school in terms of additional space. [24206/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank our guests for their attendance. NOAC is probably the first organisation to appear before any of the six Oireachtas committees on which I serve to state that it is sufficiently resourced. That is definitely a first and a positive. I sat on the audit committee of my local authority, South Dublin County Council, for several years. I served there for almost a decade. I am currently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: That sounds really progressive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: Yes.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: I am so glad and it is so welcome to me that we are having this debate. Taking a pause over the past ten days was the right thing to do because people have questions and it is up to all of us who have questions, including public representatives, men, women and today's children who may someday be using the new national maternity hospital, to get those answers. I thank the Minister for...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: I apologise that I had to leave to head into the Chamber. I want to say a huge thank you to our witness today. He has obviously put an awful lot of thought and legal research into this. It is also great he is able to share his own lived experience from Holland with us. In terms of Mr. Walsh's three recommendations, his first was with regard to the legislation that is in place already and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: Mr. Walsh said the vegetable oil-based alternative, which I believe is called Foamstream, is successfully used in the UK to eradicate invasive species and is applied every six weeks when plants are small to medium-sized during growing season. Where farmers are currently using pesticides, how often is it sprayed? I am trying to ascertain whether there will be labour intensification or more...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: Okay. We hope to have the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in before the committee. It may have done some surveys or studies on it. Does Mr. Walsh know the price point difference between the two alternatives?

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: Okay. That is something we may be able to find out for sure at our next deliberations. With all the talk of the cost of living, it would be interesting to see. I thank Mr. Walsh for answering my questions and for being here today.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: I agree with Deputy Buckley. I am on another committee that wrote to each of the political parties that receive State funding to invite them before the committee and we did not get a response from at least one political party that receives funding from the State and that is represented in this building. It can be extremely frustrating for members of committees when there is not...