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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: Amendments Nos. 102 and 103 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed. Amendment No. 103 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 102.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: The Minister can discuss amendment No. 103 in this group also.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: Amendments Nos 109 to 116, inclusive, 118 to 126, inclusive, 131 to 135, inclusive, and 143 and 144 are related. Amendments Nos 114 to 116, inclusive, are physical alternatives to amendment No. 113. Amendments Nos. 132 and 133 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 131. Amendment No. 135 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 134. Amendment No. 144 is a physical alternative to...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: Amendments Nos. 117, 146, 352a and 359a are related and may be discussed together, by agreement.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: How stands the amendment?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: Amendments Nos. 127 to 130, inclusive, are related. Amendment No. 128 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 127. Amendments Nos. 127 to 130, inclusive, may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: Amendments Nos. 140 to 142, inclusive, 145, 199 to 201, inclusive, and 208 are related. Amendments Nos. 141 and 142 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 140. Amendments Nos. 200 and 201 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 199. Amendments Nos. 140 to 142, inclusive, 145, 199 to 201, inclusive, and 208 may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: There are no more contributors and I am conscious of the time. I will put the question on amendment No. 140. We will adjourn-----

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: We will move them individually as they come up. However, if we are going to be proposing them and discussing them, we should do so before we take the vote. Will the Minister speak to them now, very briefly?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: I am conscious of time. We are due to end the meeting. Instead of putting the question on amendment No. 140, I will adjourn the meeting now. In the absence of any disagreement, I take it that is agreed. I thank the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and his officials for attending today and engaging with the committee.

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: I thank Senator Flynn for the leadership she is showing in driving the committee to deliver this report with its 84 recommendations. Tuesday was the anniversary of the day we recognised Traveller ethnicity. This has been a long struggle by the Travelling community to have their unique ethnic status recognised by the State. We did so about five years ago. While it was an important symbolic...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will carry out a feasibility study for a new DART station in the Inchicore/Ballyfermot area. [10835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (3 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the increased fines for parking on footpaths which his Department introduced in January 2022, if he has considered other measures to support increased enforcement. [10834/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the planned cost-rental development at a location (detail supplied). [10836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish the Mulcahy Report examining allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal. [10837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (3 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that all airlines operating flights into Ireland are informed of updated rules waving entry requirements for Ukrainian citizens thus ensuring that they are not refused entry to flights bound for Ireland. [12172/22]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: It is positive we have this time to discuss the Amnesty International report and the situation in Israel and Palestine. The report has detailed a cruel system of control over Palestinians by Israel. Palestinians have been left impoverished and in a constant state of fear and anxiety. The report ultimately concludes that this occupation and control meets the definition of apartheid under...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: Well, in my conversations with-----

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: In my conversations with members of the department of foreign affairs in Sweden, they told me that they had no problem and faced no restrictions. The department of foreign affairs in Sweden told me it faced no problems in terms of its programmes within Palestine after the recognition. IKEA may have had some furniture returned but that was about it. If we are not getting leverage from it...