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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove all tax levied on automated external defibrillators, AED, under European Union Council Directive EU 2022/542 of 5 April 2022 recognising the fundamental need for wider provision of such systems throughout the State. [25677/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will urgently provide an update on the passport applications of persons (details supplied) which are currently one month overdue based on the online tracking form and that are needed for flights on 1 June 2022. [26556/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the results of her Department's research into parental alienation will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25856/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any process whereby a person can reclaim the cost of medication which has now been reimbursed by the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26406/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 246. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the difference between breaches of international law by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine and those by Israel as part of its illegal occupation of Palestine; the response to Israel's occupation and oppression of Palestinians he would regard as appropriate; if he regards restrictive economic measures as an appropriate response...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the HSE funding for a service (details supplied) was reallocated after its closure in 2021 to other services locally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25505/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I will start by saying I disagree with the Chairman about the outcome of the elections. Clearly I am an outsider from down here looking up. One of the biggest outcomes was the rise of the Alliance Party, which is representative of a rise in the number of people who just want to get on with life, in a way. I will still grieve for the loss of the two Green MLAs, who would also have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: We might stick with funding just for a moment. Many of these funding programmes are often designed by somebody very far removed from the front line. An example down here is the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP. Much of the time good work is done in spite of SICAP and not because of it. Are there roadblocks or poor design in these types of funding? If we do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I understand that it is not necessarily the right forum but it is an underdeveloped piece of youth work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: Unfortunately, funding streams often do not account for, consider or measure these soft outcomes but look for hard outcomes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I acknowledge that I am coming at it from a view down here - a view from Dublin - but we have certainly gone on a journey in community work in Dublin over the past 20 years where we have moved from those emergent and soft outcomes and funding them directly to a much more rigid, hard, outcome-focused approach. It has had that consequence. The person filling in those forms is ticking boxes...

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

Patrick Costello: I feel I have been gazumped because I was just about to talk about the short- and long-form birth certificate. I have asked my personal assistant to look up why we stopped using short form. It was stated everywhere that a long-form certificate must be submitted, so the short-form certificates kind of became defunct. There are many situations where a private long-form birth certificate with...

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

Patrick Costello: I appreciate my time is up. I will make two quick points. I am concerned about accelerating the process too much because it then becomes a tick-box exercise, but if it was in the courts it could be sped up and we could have appropriate review through the courts or whatever. To be clear, while I talked about inter-country adoption, I appreciate surrogacy and adoption are not the same thing....

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

Patrick Costello: That comes back to regulating intermediaries. I will stop now.

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

Patrick Costello: If a guardian ad litemwere to be appointed, would it be an Irish guardianad litemor one from Ukraine, India or America?

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

Patrick Costello: That is another of the challenges. If a social worker in Ireland were to be appointed, would he or she have the required legal standing? That is something that is on our side of the table. I am just in my head about guardians ad litem; I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I appreciate this is not the Oireachtas Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration so I might take Ms Holohan up on that offer.

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

Patrick Costello: One of the examples from a previous session was that of a child born to UK-intending parents by a surrogate mother in Ukraine. It has a very different system where she is not considered the birth mother but, in the UK system, the intending parents are not automatically considered the parents. That is where we get the lacuna. Is it about saying we will only accept surrogacy from a certain...

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

Patrick Costello: I had to attend something else and missed some of the earlier presentations. I apologise if I repeat questions. One of the things we have been talking about is the birth certificates and how we record these. I apologise again if I am repeating questions. What are some of the witnesses' experiences on that and being on the receiving end of these arrangements? Ms Rowley-Smith has spoken on...

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

Patrick Costello: I thank Ms Rowley-Smith for that. It overlaps with some of the things we talked about this morning, such as interim orders and the idea that a presumption to be rebutted might be safer protection. What Ms Rowley-Smith has said has give us a lot of food for thought.