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Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I am sharing time with Deputy Ó Ríordáin. The Minister of State's response was quite telling, not least when he stated, “This is what underpins our assessment that the current very high rate of inflation is temporary and that it will begin to ease from the second quarter of this year.” We all read the economic reports from the likes of the Economic and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow seat access for children (details supplied) for a school transport route. [3783/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 145. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) will qualify for the €1,000 Covid bonus. [3649/22]

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I offer my condolences to the family of Ashling Murphy. There are no adequate words of comfort that I can provide except to say that we are thinking of her and her family. I take this opportunity to remember a young woman called Karen Buckley. Karen was murdered in Scotland in April 2015. She was a postgraduate occupational therapy student from Mourneabbey, Mallow, County Cork. I do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Now we are back.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private rented accommodation inspections carried out by local authorities in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of inspections in which further enforcement action was taken in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3585/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 337. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures that are being taken to ensure first-time passports can be issued in time for those parents who have booked flights. [3038/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times she has met her officials in relation to a project (details supplied); and if there is a definitive timeline established for construction. [3254/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement she has had with trade unions and stakeholders on the local employment tender in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3040/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that all recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment had a legitimate entitlement to the payment; if payments were made in cases in which no such entitlement existed; the procedures in place to recoup such payments following the internal audit carried out by her Department in respect of pandemic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hired for each area of early intervention by CHO and LHO in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [3039/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 604. To ask the Minister for Health the reason PCR sites in Mallow and Youghal, County Cork have been removed from the online option; and if a commitment will be made to providing local PCR testing in County Cork. [3208/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Work Permits (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is instructing his officials to make the necessary arrangements with their counterparts in other Departments to enable work permits to be issued to persons from countries outside of the European Union as is occurring in other industries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2890/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 671. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will produce projections on the number of licences by category (details supplied); if it is accepted these are voluntary applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2891/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 672. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his officials have concluded discussions and arrived at a successful outcome with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding the issue of the requirement for planning permission on dead, dying and rotting ash crops as committed to by the Secretary General of his Department at a meeting of the Joint...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 673. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 9 December 2021, if the payment process for the payment of ecological reports has been fully agreed with the relevant working group in Project Woodland; if the working group is fully supportive of these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2893/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I happen to be from Cork. I might have a different view to Deputy McAuliffe on the amount of content that people in the regions perceive that is attributed to Dublin. I will begin by saying "well done" to RTÉ on its latest partnership with Virgin Media Television in respect of the Six Nations Championship. That is a wonderful example of collaboration. Speaking as a proud Munster man...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Is there anything in the pipeline at present that Ms Forbes can tell us about in respect of that collaborative model? She spoke about the diversification of sport and, specifically, gender, which is absolutely vital, but what is in pipeline that will embed that model further? From the ordinary punter's point of view, and I am an ordinary punter in this regard, when I look at the URC...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Ms Forbes. I will move on to the independent sector. My understanding is that there is a statutory requirement for RTÉ to spend in respect of it. For instance, in 2020, the statutory requirement was to spend approximately €40.2 million - Ms Forbes might correct me if that is wrong. My understanding is that RTÉ spent approximately €36.5 million, which is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: What words of assurance can Ms Forbes give us that that will be spent? What plans are afoot in that regard?