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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 721. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET has requested an up-to-date report from HIQA with regard to the continuing imposition of face mask wearing by children in schools and other settings. [6466/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET has not requested an up-to-date report from HIQA with regard to the continuing imposition of face mask wearing by children in schools and other settings; and the reason it has not done so. [6467/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 723. To ask the Minister for Health the expertise and qualifications of the members of NPHET that qualifies them to make decisions and recommendations regarding the health and well-being of children. [6468/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 725. To ask the Minister for Health the published studies and precise recorded data that NPHET relies on to ground the statement that the Omicron variant is a variant of concern. [6470/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 727. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET and his Department are prepared to be transparent with the public and publish all data, studies, assessments, reports and other documentation or global public health advice relied upon to continue to impose restrictions on the Irish populace in this manner. [6472/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (8 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 801. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide assurances that there is a plan and pathway in place for cancer patients who are immunocompromised to access rapid PCR tests and results; and if he will also provide a commitment that there is a supply of Covid-19 treatments available to patients who are not inpatients in acute settings. [6677/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports in place for early years providers that continue to experience severe sustainability issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5441/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the various supports available from her Department under the treatment benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5382/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of those applying for, granted and refused a heating supplement under the supplementary welfare allowance by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5383/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 174. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that Tusla has responded to the arrival of 36 unaccompanied child refugees in 2021; the supports that were made available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5442/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: 124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being taken to combat antisocial behaviour. [5479/22]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: I did not have visual contact earlier but I was able to listen to the meeting. One of the findings that has been consistent since we started discussing this topic is that the introduction of a State pension rate that is a percentage of a certain average – one of the witnesses mentioned 34% of earnings - has been regularly discussed since the 1990s and in the initial presentation from...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: That is interesting. It is a notion that I have thought about over the years. Thankfully, for the over-65 age cohort, they are vocal and good at advocating. However, it is interesting to note – not that we want any kind of poverty level in any cohort – that the weight of poverty among the over-65s is significantly less than for other groups under that age group. Now, that is...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: This question may have been answered and if it has I will read through the proceedings. What have been the major resistances to indexing? I think the witnesses referred to that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: If we were to index link State pensions, is there an argument for connecting the taxation system generally in an indexed way for ordinary salaries pre-pension runs? I may not have articulated that well. If we were to index State pensions to the average industrial wage, or whatever else is connected to that, in the economy, is there an argument for indexing taxes for the ordinary individual...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: I get how index-linking State pensions works. How would index-linking tax increases work?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: That wipes out the discretionary element from a political perspective in that the Minister for Finance could not play around with it. We would be fixing it. That would be the political downside. Is that right?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: Could one of the witnesses explain how it would work on indirect tax on, say, a commodity?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: What about VAT?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)
John Lahart: I have over-egged the pudding. I might come back in at the end if I am still here.