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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (14 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided for a family and community resource centre (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50225/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 219. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that the Passport Office received this application on 15 June 2021. [49550/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 220. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that this person has imminent travel plans and they applied in ample time. [49551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 221. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact this person has upcoming travel plans. [49552/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the additional 3,000 places announced for community employment; the way these places are broken down by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48629/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (7 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons under 25 years of age in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in County Mayo; the number nationally; the steps her Department is taking to reduce youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48630/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for the times of a school bus service (details supplied) in County Mayo to be reviewed and amended in view of the difficulties which it is causing for the children using the service. [48804/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (6 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport for a person (details supplied) will be dispatched in time for their travel plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48500/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: I will be very brief. The more I have listened during this meeting and at those we have had in recent weeks, the more I am uncertain about what is actually going to happen. I really believe that the Department, and I want this to be put on the record, is making a big mistake. There will be difficulties down the line. I noted down a few of the answers some of the officials gave when they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: Has the Department a contingency plan if anything goes wrong?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (5 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times Mayo County Council has used the Derelict Sites Act 1990 in each of the years 2017 to 2019, in tabular form. [47844/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the position of a person (details supplied) in a school in County Mayo will receive its correct recognition and associated remuneration, terms and conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48160/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2021)

Michael Ring: 469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those receiving illness benefit will be considered for the fuel allowance and the double payment at Christmas, particularly those who have a claim category of continuous duration and those who have received illness benefit for several months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48324/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: That is not fair. They had them in on time. They have had them in for 40 days.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: The system has to be fair.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for letting me in. I did not realise that I was going to be able to ask my question, so I thank her.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff working in the Passport Office on a monthly basis from January 2020 to 31 August 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47039/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I will put two brief questions to the Minister. First, will he take staff from other Departments and put them into the Passport Office to try to deal with the emergency? Second, and seriously, is it not time that the Department considered putting a passport office in the west? If there is a problem, it is not fair that someone from Galway, Mayo or Belmullet has to go to Dublin to resolve...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I thank the Minister for his answer. I acknowledge that the staff of the Passport Office are working under difficult conditions, but this is an essential service. I warned the Department three months ago that this problem would arise and it has now happened. There has been a problem every summer. I would like to see it not happening next year and the office being given the requisite...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: Last Friday evening, a constituent of mine who has dual citizenship - Canadian and Irish - was on to me. They made their application to the Irish Passport Office. They went up to the Canadian Embassy last Friday evening and they came out with an emergency passport for the child. They could not even get an answer from the Passport Office here in Dublin. They spent weeks and weeks and...