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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Swimming Pools (29 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: 42. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports in place to enable new swimming pools to be established in locations in which a need for such a facility has been researched and proven; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47583/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time vacant homes officers in each local authority tasked solely with identifying vacant properties and bringing them back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47193/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (28 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, inclusive, for diving survey licences to enable the diving of a protected wreck; the number of licences that were issued in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47194/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: I will participate in the second slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: The discussion has been very interesting. I remember when the national minimum wage came in first. It was under the Minister at the time, Mary Harney, if I remember correctly. It was a seismic change. It is now embedded, thankfully, and we talk about it as being normal. As Deputy Bruton said, we want it to be sustainable. We want people to get the most they can out of it. I notice in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: That is dropping.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: Obviously we are in dramatically changed circumstances since 2018 and none of us knows where it will go or end up. There is a huge amount of unpredictability here. The number of people on the minimum wage has been stated to be 164,000. There has been huge growth in employment. Walking around this city and many towns in Ireland, staff-wanted notices are visible in many places. Why has the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: -----has increased and maybe the number on low wages has increased as well as a reflection of the overall growth in employment. Is any statistic available about the growth in the number of people on the minimum wage? Has that been looked at by anybody?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: Where does this figure come from?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (21 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 91 and 126 of 26 April 2022, if his Department will reconsider the decision not to designate funding this year to the proposed upgrade of the N25 national road between Midleton and Carrigtwohill, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46370/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (21 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Topical Issue No. 3 of 29 September 2020, if he will report on the progress made to date on improving road access to Cobh and the Great Island, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46371/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s plans, if any, to amend VAT rates for print media; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s plans, if any, to amend VAT rates for domestic retrofitting or renewable energy works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46368/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Resources (20 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. This is quite a serious issue and I thank him for taking it seriously. The pipeline is there and the Inch terminal is there. My information is it can be used for floating storage regasification units. I am not talking about using the caverns under the sea at all. The proposal that has been sent to the Minister's Department involves a floating...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Resources (20 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: Yes. They are not needed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Resources (20 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: I fully agree with what the Minister has said-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Resources (20 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: -----about green energy, hydrogen and so on. That is absolutely fantastic. However, I understand there has been no engagement with respect to companies that want to talk about regasification.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Resources (20 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: I am sorry. I thought the Leas-Cheann Comhairle called me. My apologies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: How many connections have been made to date under the national broadband plan? What are the projections under the national broadband plan per month? The Minister of State has given us the connections on the commercial side. Does he agree that there is sometimes confusion when somebody in one house, who is not in the commercial area, can get a connection and the next-door neighbour outside...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Resources (20 Sep 2022)

David Stanton: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Question No. 86 of 24 May 2022, the role of his Department in the decommissioning of the Kinsale and Seven Heads gas fields; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45773/22]