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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of all trade missions and engagements abroad which both he and his predecessor as Minister have undertaken from 1 January 2018 to date; the dates on which both he and his predecessors were abroad in that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the decision to maintain the cap on third level student earnings at €4,500; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23022/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected impact and cost implications to the Exchequer of increasing the third level student earning cap from €4,500 to €5,500; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23023/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 830. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1722 of 26 April 2022, if the legally binding instrument that emerges from the negotiating process will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas for debate; if a majority vote will be required before the instrument is transposed into Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23406/22]

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: The announcement of the ban on the commercial sale of turf created a fiasco, and that fiasco was of the Government's making. I have listened to statements made during the debate blaming the media, Opposition Deputies and everybody else instead of the Government holding up his hands and saying it got it wrong, and seriously wrong. It shows the arrogance and the fact the Government thinks it...

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: It is profoundly disappointing that we heard the announcement for third level and the supports available to third level students yesterday but nothing was done in terms of increasing the cap on the amount students can earn in part-time work. That cap should have been increased because students are facing a crisis in terms of spiralling rents. That was definitely a missed opportunity by the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to address labour shortages in the restaurant and hospitality sector; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the sector is currently losing highly skilled staff due to the non-availability of work permits and the refusal by his Department to extend existing work permits; if he will consider a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the use of Just Transition funding to subsidise the importation of peat moss or the adaptation of facilities to mill peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the use of Just Transition funding to subsidise the importation of peat moss or the adaptation of facilities to mill peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if her Department is considering delimiting the right to private property in response to the accommodation crisis generated by the influx of unprecedented numbers of Ukrainian refugees; if remarks attributed to her in several media sources (details supplied) that the Government would avoid if possible forcing persons or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit or jobseeker’s allowance who have been in receipt of either payment for a continuous period of three years or; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21818/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 333. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis for statements made by him and by other Ministers that Ireland had capacity to welcome up to 200,000 refugees; the assessments compiled or reports commissioned within his Department or by external agencies which allowed him to come to this estimate; his views on whether Ireland can welcome 200,000...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Ukrainian refugees who have been welcomed in Ireland to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21817/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 372. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of convictions for offences contrary to sections 2 to 6, inclusive, and 9 to 12, inclusive, and 15 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 for the years 2015 to 2021 inclusive; the total number of those convicted under each heading in each year who were non-nationals; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (27 Apr 2022)

Carol Nolan: There is a serious problem with disability services in Laois-Offaly. I refer to the children’s disability network teams, CDNTs. In one area, for example, which serves Edenderry and Mountmellick, one of the teams has seven full-time vacancies. Another team has four vacancies at Riverside in Tullamore, while the highest level of full-time vacancies is in the Spraoi Centre in...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Carol Nolan: We are the Rural Independent Group.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Carol Nolan: I welcome this opportunity to speak on the important carbon tax issue. The Rural Independent Group of which I am part is the only group that has been consistently opposed to the introduction of a carbon tax. We did not enter into playing any games or calling for a stop to be put to the increase in the tax.. We called for the whole carbon tax to be scrapped because it is an unjust tax that...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Carol Nolan: It appears the panic light finally lit up in the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil headquarters when they realised they had crossed a line with the Irish people, who are absolutely fed up with the nonsensical and detached policies the Green Party is imposing on us in rural Ireland morning, noon and night. The Green Party is acting as if it is the conscience of the country. It is high time for...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Carol Nolan: 177. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons currently employed in his Department who have been seconded in from the public sector; the number of Departmental officials seconded where the monies are recouped from the body the person is seconded to or where the Department pays for the person with no recoupment from the other organisation. [20069/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Carol Nolan: 172. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of €12.30; and the role that those persons occupy within his Department or relevant body. [19637/22]