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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.

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

John Lahart: This might be a question for management as they have the figures, but how often does that happen?

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

John Lahart: That is all very useful.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tax Code (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 105. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has examined a report by an organisation (details supplied) with regard to policies acting as disincentives to work for moderate to lower paid employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61270/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of income that was taken in by the National Transport Authority from public transport providers (details supplied) in 2020 as compared with 2021; and the amount of subvention that was required to sustain same. [61260/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the use which is made of surplus fares paid on Dublin Bus and public transport in general; and the amount of surplus fares that was paid by consumers to transport providers by individual operator from 2016 to 2020, in tabular form. [61267/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the income derived in tolls from the M50 toll bridge from 2016 to 2020, inclusive; and if information in relation to a series of matters (details supplied) will be provided in relation to same in tabular form. [61269/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the report by an organisation (details supplied) with regard to policies acting as disincentives to work for moderate to lower paid employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61268/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to implement recommendations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61900/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent report by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, the way he intends to address the Government’s continued over-reliance on corporation tax receipts, in which one in five euro of tax receipts were from corporation tax in 2020 and more than half of those receipts were from ten corporate groups; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to heed the advice of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council with regard to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61905/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (14 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: 237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the process underway by the Office of Government Procurement in relation to a new framework for the procurement of cloud video conference services; the expected date for the publication of this framework; the timelines for premarket engagement and evaluation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61231/21]