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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mental health supports and strategies in place to support students in further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58628/21]

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: I will be very brief. I found the conversation and the reading material fascinating. I have what I hope will be considered a constructive observation to make on what Mr. Ryan said. His paper was so full of acronyms that I kept getting lost in it. We all do that when we are in the system. I got the thrust of what he was saying. As someone who had a professional connection with mental...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: My question is on how they become part of the multidisciplinary teams.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: That is useful in that they do not just walk into it. There is an accredited process and avenue.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: If I am right, the impetus is from the individual who expresses an interest. The HSE then responds to that. Probably not in all cases, but in some cases it may have an accredited course to bed in the structures and how that peer support role can be fulfilled to the best of the individual's ability.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: I like that idea of incorporation and multidisciplinary teams. I do not want to place a burden on Mr. Ryan so rather than asking him to make further submissions, I will ask him the following question. The public would be interested in the process by which those people are selected. Is it based on the expertise of the medics involved - in other words, they work with a patient and they...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: That is terrific.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: It was a Fianna Fáil commitment in that regard. I have heard the Deputy speak passionately about this and I acknowledge that he supports such action. There are a few amendments I would like considered as well but the bottom line is that an unsuccessful, disastrous policy is being brought to an end by a Fianna Fáil Minister with responsibility for housing. The House should at...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: The problem that confronts me here is to combine my loyalty, affection and respect for the Minister as a colleague with the criticism which he knows I have of the previous process. One of the previous speakers suggested this was a U-turn in Government policy. As a Fianna Fáil Deputy, I can say this is not a U-turn in Government policy. This is Fianna Fáil putting its stamp on...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: We did not support it, actually. It was stitched into the programme for Government. I wish we had outlawed SHDs from the start. However, this legislation appears to do it. I was concerned that a Government press release about its legislative programme and what it was prioritising for autumn term - I welcome that this Bill has been prioritised - stated that the legislation would see a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the changes to the carer’s allowance means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58004/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons availing of the fuel allowance, by main social welfare payment, in tabular form; her plans to extend eligibility for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58005/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her assessment of the recent rise in fraud crime. [57818/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken to deal with the increase in domestic violence during the pandemic. [57819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request statistical information from the Garda Commissioner on the number of instances of spiking that have taken place to date in 2021; if she will request the views of the Commissioner in this regard; if such spiking took place in the form of an injection into the body of a third-party by syringe; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances of spiking, including either physical spiking of a person, perhaps through syringe into a part of the body, or of spiking of a drink, that have resulted in presentations at emergency departments in hospitals, by hospital, in tabular form; and the presenting symptoms of the patients to emergency departments in this regard. [58096/21]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister and Ministers of State for being present. Having listened to members of the Opposition, I am very tempted to look back at the past year and where we were this time last year or a little before that, when the world felt a vaccine would not be available until now. To the Deputies who say the Minister has failed and the Government has failed to look after its people, I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: I thank and welcome the witnesses. Is this the first time that the Governor has appeared before this committee?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: The Governor is very welcome. I do not wish to pile pressure on the present Governor but his predecessor made himself very available, which was always very appreciated by the committee. I am not an economist and I focused on the Governor's paper entitled Inflation dynamics in a pandemic: maintaining vigilance and optionality, in which he fleshed out some of these issues. I will work...