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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Grant Payments (19 Jan 2022)

John Lahart: 2060. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the agencies and organisations that received the social enterprise capital grant scheme for dispersal in 2021 in an area (details supplied); the way the grant was advertised locally; the number of applicants; the organisations to which funding was dispersed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1940/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

John Lahart: The Minister of State is not answering the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

John Lahart: I am not trying to grandstand the Minister of State, but I do want to send a very strong message to him from the point of view of the preparation of next year's budget. In ten years, the funding to Tallaght drug and alcohol task force from the Department of Health and the HSE decreased. I welcome the recent allocation, but it is only a start. That is the message I have to get across to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

John Lahart: Will the Minister of State champion that? I see him as a colleague.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

John Lahart: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

John Lahart: I appreciate those comments too. I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending. I acknowledge the allocation last week announced by the Minister of State in regard to dealing with crack cocaine. It is rolling funding, which is very much appreciated by the community I represent and by the Tallaght drug and alcohol task force, the board of which I sit on along with the chairman of this committee. In the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

John Lahart: I thank Mr. Walsh for that. I want to acknowledge the role that the Minister of State took in determining that. My time is running out. There has been an admission that the model up until now has been unfair and that it has not been much use to the community that I represent. I hope this represents a continuing change in direction. I want to acknowledge the Minister of State's role in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a post-primary school for Citywest, Dublin, in terms of timelines, stages and likely commencement date. [62468/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a post-primary school for Ballycullen and Firhouse, Dublin, in terms of timelines, stages and likely commencement date. [62469/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the likely recommencement date for works at a school (details supplied); the details of the present situation; the next phases of work and timelines for completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62470/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project at a school (details supplied) in terms of timelines and stages and the likely conclusion and opening dates. [62471/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Chair for facilitating me and I thank our guests for their presence. As others have, I thank them for all the work they have done, both seen and unseen, over the past year and a half, and for the essential emergency service they provide. Mr. Kenny spoke about Slea Head, an area I know intimately because my mother was from Ballyferriter. The idea that an ambulance would have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have been given a scenario. Is this a regular occurrence or is it completely out of the question for a dispatch system to send a crew on call from County Donegal to County Tipperary that is diverted en route to Mullingar, then to County Mayo, and then to County Donegal? Is it completely out of the question that this could occur?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: What would Mr. Kenny say about reports that a third of ambulance delays last more than one hour and that this is a common experience in some counties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Without being too explicit, can Mr. Kenny say for sure that these delays cause fatalities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I was responsible for ensuring that Dublin Fire Brigade and ambulance services were included today. I have had very close contact with them as a Deputy over the years. There are reports claiming that HSE figures show that ambulances turned up to life-threatening events more than an hour late on 300 occasions in the first six months of 2021. Is that accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Councillor colleagues in Donegal have told me that delays in emergency departments are a significant issue in the availability of crews responding. Can Mr. Kenny elaborate on why emergency departments cause such delays?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: If the system had all the resources Mr. Kenny wanted and was able to provide all the services and overcome all the obstacles, how long typically should it take for an ambulance once it arrives at the door of a hospital to dispatch its patient into the care of that hospital if everything was ideal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: From arrival at the front door, as it were.