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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I raise the legal fees subhead for the Office of the Ombudsman. It states it will "provide ... for the office to increase the legal fees subhead by €710,000 in 2024 to meet the cost of legal fees and settlements". Will the Minister speak to that and the main driver of it?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How much has been paid out in settlements from the State in the past year or recent years?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 16. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update following his attendance at the EU-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit and European Council. [42872/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address staff vacancies in schools. [44934/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of capital investments in the school estate. [44935/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the countries with which reciprocal driving licence arrangements are being examined at present; and the reasons for selection of these countries. [43903/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing reciprocal driving licence arrangements with the US states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Delaware, New York and Illinois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43904/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 299. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE and HTE staff, by grade, working in the Standards in Public Office Commission; and the estimated cost of increasing staffing by 50% at each grade. [44050/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43906/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the SNA workforce plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43584/24]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase scheme homes that have been delivered in County Mayo in each of the past five years, and the average price of an affordable purchase scheme home in Mayo in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44070/24]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been trying to access funding from Mayo County Council’s disabled person grant since 2021 for urgent works to their home; if he will examine this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44739/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 988. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that patients from Mayo are forced to travel to Galway University Hospital to see access optometry services required as a consequence of diabetes (details supplied); if these services can be offered in Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44350/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Relations (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on any upcoming engagements between a union (details supplied) and his Department; if he will commit to pay parity for section 39 workers; if he will honour commitments made in October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44777/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress of the joint application by ATU Mayo and Mayo County Council, made in October 2022, for the provision of student accommodation at the old military barracks site in Castlebar; to provide an update on any other student accommodation availability in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will amend eligibility criteria to enable social enterprises to access local enterprise office and Enterprise Ireland supports. [43582/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to talk to the Minister about social enterprises, in particular if he will amend the eligibility criteria to enable them to access the local enterprise office and Enterprise Ireland supports. They are locked out of some of them. The Minister knows the real value of social enterprises. There are hundreds of them right across my own county of Mayo. They generate real and sustainable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for her response. There needs to be flexibility. Many social enterprises are commercial and others are not, but they add something to communities. There must be a recognition beyond their economic value of their social value as well. They deserve equal treatment, including the same level of support and incentives as businesses and non-profits, recognising...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There needs to be an awareness of what is available and what supports can be accessed by social enterprises. The supports are often beyond the reach of social enterprises. They are so busy with what they are trying to do within their communities that we must make it as easy as possible. I, too, recently met with Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland, SERI, the representative body for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the concerns I have around the closing down of retail businesses, particularly in Mayo. The Minister of State will be very familiar with it. When I walk down American Street in Belmullet or some of the streets in Ballina, Castlebar and other areas, I see that many businesses are shut down. That speaks to me of the disconnect. We are not connecting up. The bureaucracy and red tape...