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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position with regard to the restoration of post-graduate grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2724/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (22 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position with regard to the remuneration of school secretaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2723/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (22 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 519. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent by each local authority in 2018 on cleaning up illegally disposed waste. [2863/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 151. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been waiting over two years will have a knee assessed by an orthopaedic consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2120/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicle Grants (17 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a person (details supplied) who bought a 100% electric vehicle and applied for a grant was refused funding despite the vehicle complying with the conditions of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2068/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses, apartments and accommodation units owned or leased by Clare County Council as vacant social housing stock; the length of time each unit has been vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2060/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is that in a no-deal scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I will be brief because my predecessor covered a lot. The challenge facing us as an Oireachtas is to try to engage with the public to make the reality of climate change an acceptable phenomenon for it, to try to put in place a series of measures to change the behaviour of the public that the public will find acceptable and to do so in a way that the public does not feel it is being foisted...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Nor Mattie either.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Increases (19 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT on hairdressing services is increasing on 1 January 2019; if so, the amount by which; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53485/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (19 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 173 of 20 September 2018 and 248 of 14 November 2018, when the farmer will receive the outstanding payment in view of the fact that the error was made well over a year ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53616/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electricity Generation (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the development of facilities to support the sale of electricity back to the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53179/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I am concerned that Ireland did not join the 27 countries that formed the High Ambition Coalition. During the summit, this group committed to scaling up commitments in line with the Paris Agreement targets. The Minister might provide some detail as to why we did not do this or why it was not possible for us to do this. However, Ireland did join the eight other countries to work together to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The draft EU long-term strategy on greenhouse gas emissions, which was published on 28 November, also proposes a climate neutral vision by 2050. A number of key decisions are scheduled for early next year, such as the future of the carbon tax, the report of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action, and the Government's cross-departmental plan, which the Minister spoke about and indicated...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Is it still the Minister's intention to reach a point where the remaining bidder would at some point be made the preferred bidder, and from there we could proceed towards the signing of a contract between the State and that bidder? Before we even get to the starting point, does the Minister have some indicative timeline? Could we assume that within January a preferred bidder will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process to review decisions to close rural post offices undertaken by An Post; the number of reviews and successful reviews, respectively, which have been completed to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53419/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: This is to ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process to review decisions to close rural post offices undertaken by An Post; the number of reviews and successful reviews, respectively, which have been completed to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: That threw me as well.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I am familiar with quite a number of community groups around the country, including in my constituency, where people came together in the aftermath of the proposal to close a significant number of post offices. Of course there were some for whom the business and the level of transactions had gone so low that some communities accepted it was not possible to retain them. In many cases there...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister and I know there are many other matters in his brief on which he has had to concentrate in his short time in office. When he gets the opportunity to review some of the discussion and debate, particularly the proposals made by Fianna Fáil, he may recognise that there are people and communities who see the post office service as being essential, and the distance they...