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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 332. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to streamline the referral process for children who move between early intervention services and the school-age team in north County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the resources being allocated in the early intervention services and school-age team to assist it to accept the influx of referrals if the assessment of need waiting list is cleared by April 2021 in north County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35945/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open a school age team in Balbriggan primary care centre and transfer the waiting list and families already attending the services of a clinic (details supplied) in Clontarf, Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35946/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if resources will be allocated to community care teams within north County Dublin to treat additional referrals following the clearing of the assessment of need waiting list by April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35947/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2020: Motion (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I do not have any question, so I will be brief. I compliment the Minister and the Department on this step. It is the second step in an important process for our regions. I have a personal interest in seeing a technological university arrive in the south east, but this meeting specifically relates to the one in Munster and I am delighted to see it happen. As has been outlined correctly, it...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I wish to make a point of order, not to correct the Chairman but to ask if responses to individual queries could be issued to the secretariat as it is committee business.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for attending. I am not sure Ministers would be happy giving up part of their budgets under normal circumstances but, under the current circumstances, we probably welcome it. I have a couple of queries on additional budgets, particularly in respect of the Minister's reference to additional release days for principals and deputy principals, among...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I welcome the Minister and Minister of State to the committee and thank them for coming before it. This is a very important, albeit brief, encounter on the establishment of the technological university in Munster, which I am delighted to see. I have a personal interest in the south east, so I look forward to that happening in due course as well. My question is broader, I am sure the...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs for the work he has done in his Department in recent years, particularly on Brexit and on this and the previous Brexit Bills. I appreciate all of the work his Department has done to best prepare this jurisdiction for what will inevitably cause significant damage, not just to our economy, but also to our relations with the UK. Of course, all of that...

Estimates for Public Services 2020: Message from Select Committee (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the following further Revised Estimate for public services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2020: Vote 37.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration has been given to adapting SEAI grants for buildings developed after 2006 and which do not meet current insulation requirements as prescribed in the 2003 building regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34937/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 616. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the family courts Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34938/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I apologise for having stepped out. The witnesses will appreciate there was a vote in the Dáil. The representatives will forgive me if I repeat questions that have already been asked. I ask the witnesses to pretend they have not already answered the questions. My focus is not on leaving certificate 2020. It is done. There were regrettable errors. We know that, and we also know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I am sorry to interrupt. Will that report be presented to this committee or to the Houses of the Oireachtas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: The committee and the witnesses, as individuals within the Department, must recognise that the fifth years who are now sixth years are at a distinct disadvantage to their peers. I welcome what Dr. Hislop said, but I would urge caution and suggest members might pause their consideration of this matter and how it might affect the current sixth years to a later stage, perhaps with the student...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 11 November 2020.

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Acting Chairman for the opportunity to address the Finance Bill. I welcome the Minister of State. I find myself wanting to start where I had planned on finishing, that is to say, talking about the long-term sustainability of budgets of this nature. This is so given the volume of borrowing that will be necessary to fund expenditure in 2021 in addition, no doubt, to voluminous...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (5 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to implement aspects of an EU directive (details supplied) that provides owners of microgeneration units the possibility to sell surplus energy back to the grid for a determined price; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34405/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reduce the delays in the planning and application process for both on-shore and off-shore windfarms which are needed to meet our 2030 energy targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34400/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of development for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34401/20]