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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Judicial Reviews (16 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of judicial reviews of An Bord Pleanála decisions in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of decisions that have been upheld; the number of decisions that were set aside in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Judicial Reviews (16 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of judicial reviews of An Bord Pleanála decisions that have been taken by State bodies in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55513/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Semi-State Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount incurred by An Bord Pleanála in legal and consultant fees in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55514/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Semi-State Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that all external services and consultants retained by An Bord Pleanála have been procured in accordance with the relevant procurement law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the back to work enterprise allowance for those applicants who were approved between February 2020 and June 2021 considering many were not able to open their businesses due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56115/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (11 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on his plans to tackle the increase in demand on homeless services due to evictions from private rentals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54568/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (11 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant local authority owned properties in County Kerry; the funding set aside to upgrade these vacant properties in 2022; the target number of properties to be upgraded in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54569/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (11 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 143. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagements she has had with various sporting bodies and others in relation to the return of indoor sports and cultural activities for children. [54945/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Organisations (11 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 176. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagements she has had with basketball representatives including Basketball Ireland over return to play protocols. [54944/21]

Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: Ba mhaith liom labhairt ar son an leasaithe seo ar alt 33. Feicimid sa státseirbhís, sna bainc, i bhFeidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte, in Aer Lingus agus ar na comharthaí bóithre that there will not be any change. There will not be any change in what happens on the ground unless it is mandated. Asking the Garda nicely to do it will not work. As referenced...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: The Minister of State mentioned earlier that the issue preventing the transfer of prisoners from the UK is the difference in the sentences and licenses and the incompatibility of the type of sentence here, given that UK sentences have a great deal of time served on licence rather than in jail, with up to 50% remission. The courts here have had difficulty with the rights of prisoners with...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: I will allow that to stand, with a right to revisit this matter depending on what is presented.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguarding measures that are currently implemented in schools in relation to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54710/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: 563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic beds designated for pelvic fractures in each of the seven hospital groups in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54045/21]

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: I have become fairly thick-skinned over the past few days.

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: Bhíomar ag caint mar gheall ar go leor Billí cosúil leis sin atá ceangailte le coir thromchúiseach go hidirnáisiúnta an bhliain seo agus tá an Bille seo ceangailte leis sin chomh maith. Ar thaobh amháin, tá na dúshláin a fheicimid leis na coireanna sin nuair a bhíonn orainn obair le tíortha eile ach, ar an taobh eile,...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: I am not here half as much.

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: I commend Deputy Harkin on bringing forward this important Bill. I support it going to Committee Stage and allowing for further debate because it gets to the heart of the difficulties facing our credit union movement. I also commend the movement for working so hard and so professionally in their submissions to suggest many of the policy solutions causing difficulties for them and their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Women's Shelters and Domestic Abuse Refuges: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: I will be fairly brief as Deputy Martin Kenny covered much of what I was going to say. I thank each of the members for coming and Deputies Smith and Carroll MacNeill for suggesting this important module. I agree with Ms McDermott about the State integrated response, which is definitely required. It is depressing to read that with ancillary services, community care, health and hospital...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Pa Daly: I support this motion. The thing that strikes me most when I speak to nurses is how undervalued they feel. Is it any wonder? There are staff shortages. Nurses are exhausted and stressed and did not receive childcare support at the beginning of the pandemic when they were crying out for it. They did not have access to support staff in pharmacies, adequate security, occupational...