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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for an amendment to the Building Control Acts to allow for the transposition into law of Article 8 of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9887/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 320. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Large-Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund; if the fund is open to new applications; the number of successful applications; the amount disbursed; if she will provide a list of the successful projects; and the number of applications that are currently being assessed in tabular form. [9792/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 327. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the large-scale sport infrastructure fund scheme; if it is open to new applications; the number of successful applications; the amount disbursed; if she will provide a list of those successful projects in tabular form; and the number of applications that are currently being assessed. [10103/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a letter of intent has been issued for a project in a school (details supplied); and if so, the details of same. [9778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a letter of intent has been issued for a project in a school (details supplied); and if so, the details of same. [9779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the fuel allowance claim by a person (details supplied) has been disallowed. [10057/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will account for a situation that was decided on recently in the courts; and the way that a payment was obtained for so long without verification (details supplied). [10104/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 566. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will develop a specific fund for local authorities to develop and improve playgrounds in their area on a multi-annual basis. [9144/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitalisations in 2021 linked specifically to long-Covid, broken down by hospital, age and gender in tabular form. [9793/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (22 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 843. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [9883/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: To be very clear so there is no ambiguity, what I actually said was that there needs to be greater resourcing of the local authorities to provide for personnel to carry out the inspections.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: That is the key point. The question is: will additional resources be provided to local authorities to carry out more inspections?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: It is on the Department's agenda as a priority.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Ms Timmons. I appreciate the answer. With regard to water services, as a typical Deputy trying to get schemes up off the ground in regard to wastewater treatment plants and sewage treatment plants, and generally improve the condition of services, in particular water services, I recognise that some very good projects are under way right across the country under the ambit of Irish...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Will the Department devise a new scheme for small settlements and villages where projects are shovel-ready and where the local authority says it is ready to go and would like to bid for a scheme that might be devised?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I will follow on from my colleague, Deputy Dillon, regarding the inspections regime. I understand there are a set of regulations going back to 2019 relating to standards in private rented accommodation, which are very clearly delineated. I am struck by the fact, notwithstanding Covid-19 and the inability of people to inspect private rented accommodation that is subject to housing assistance...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: It was 2021. We are factoring in Covid-19. We know there will be a drop-off so the officials do not need to respond to that. That is a given and that is understood, but the number of prohibition notices that have been served out of those inspections is 15. Even if we track back, taking into account Covid-19, in 2018, approximately 28,000 inspections were carried out with 99 prohibition...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 56. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will allow discretionary funding under LEADER Food Initiative for projects that were submitted but withdrawn to resubmit with the new parameters of a project to be funded. [8698/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadband Infrastructure (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 65. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her engagement on the broadband connection points elements of the National Broadband Plan to date in 2022. [8699/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 75. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagement she has had with counterparts in Government and in Europe on LEADER funding. [8700/22]