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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: 144. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 12 May 2022, if he will outline the cost of the Defence Forces aptitude tests for each year from 2016 to 2021, inclusive; the number of tests that were administered each year; the number of applicants that failed to pass the tests in each of these years respectively; and if he will make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: I want to come back to a question I asked earlier and to the fact that largest county in the country, Cork, quite often gets the same funding under various local authority schemes as the smallest county. I ask the Minister to have a look at that and determine why that is the case. It is clear why the people of Cork feel hard done by. We are very humble and do not like giving out but the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Strategies (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: The Minister said that each local authority gets €400,000 to acquire old buildings. Cork is approximately four or five times the size of some other local authorities and yet each local authority gets the same amount. How is that decision made? A local authority with a fifth of the population gets the same amount. Is there not something unfair about that? There is a proposal to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: I agree with the Minister and fully support her in what she is doing about vacant properties. The policy mentions the judicious use of compulsory purchase orders, CPOs. Is it possible to acquire property in that manner if the owner does not want to sell it and if it is lying more or less derelict and out of use? Is the Department actively pursuing that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Digital Hubs (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: I support my colleague, Deputy O'Connor, on this matter and I thank the Minister for the great work she is doing. Are Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment involved in supporting the work to provide remote working hubs and centres? We may need to think even bigger on this issue. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been announced recently in...

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: On 30 July 2009, the former Minister, Mr. Noel Dempsey, travelled from Cork to Midleton to reopen the rail link to Midleton. There had been a big campaign for a number of years and it was a huge success. I recently met with an official of Íarnród Éireann and he told me it is planned to electrify the system from Mallow to Midleton to Cobh and it is planned eventually to have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: Given the volatile nature of oil and gas supplies in Europe at the moment, and given that we get more than 70% of our natural gas through a pipeline from the United Kingdom, has the Government any contingency plans in place in the event of a reduction or curtailment in the supply from the United Kingdom? If not, does it plan to put plans in place? It is a case of being ullamh and having...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: 16. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there will be a further round of local improvement scheme funding in 2022; if her Department has received an update on whether the Department of Transport will match funding for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27388/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: 49. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures being taken by her Department to encourage the establishment of large-scale remote working hubs in provincial towns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25014/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: 364. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces 1916-2016 centenary medals that were struck; the number that have been awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27385/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role that her Department played, if any, in the creation of a new road to service a proposed new school campus in Carrigtwohill, County Cork; the amount, if any, that was made available by her Department by way of funding for the construction of the road; if her Department has any role in requesting that the road be taken in charge by Cork...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans with respect to entitlement to school transport for students attending their second-nearest school for the coming school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27898/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: 451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are available to frontline workers who are unable to work due to long-Covid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27359/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: Discussion (31 May 2022)

David Stanton: I welcome the ambassador and acknowledge her words in respect of the support communities are providing across the country. People are working hard and there is a lot going on in my area. Hubs have been set up where people from Ukraine can collect clothes and other essentials they may not be in a position to purchase. These were donated by local people and volunteers man these particular...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 May 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. I wish to raise two issues. I ask him to comment on the Meth-Abate project whereby methane is set to be reduced by the addition of seaweed additives. I ask him for his views on its effectiveness and potential. What is his Department doing to support research in this area? The last time we were here, I spoke about the targeted agricultural...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 May 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for that. I understand in some instances methane reductions of 67% have been observed. The Minister is right in what he is saying and I encourage his Department to move on that one. I again ask the Minister to comment on the planning restrictions with respect to solar panels on farm buildings. In some countries such restrictions do not exist and people can simply...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fodder Crisis (26 May 2022)

David Stanton: I join colleagues in asking whether the Minister will consider including dairy farmers in the scheme to which he referred. Will he give us an idea as to what the subscription to the scheme will be or what the take-up is at the moment? Has he any estimate of how many applicants there will be?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 May 2022)

David Stanton: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the measures being taken by his Department to assist farmers in contributing to the national effort to reduce climate-based emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26636/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 May 2022)

David Stanton: This question relates to the role farmers can play in reducing climate-based emissions. What supports is the Department making available to help them in this regard? Farmers are often demonised but they really want to play their part and are anxious to do so. They need help, support and guidance in that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 May 2022)

David Stanton: 100. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 78 and 156 of 15 February 2022, if his Department has completed the internal review process of the project preliminary business case for an elective hospital for Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26634/22]