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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (19 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 369. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of implementing schemes such as the special assignee relief programme and the key employee engagement programme in each year from 2018 to date; the employers and companies that have availed of these schemes during that time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50860/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 370. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for increasing the VAT rate applicable to the hospitality sector from the current rate of 9% at the end of August 2022; if he will address concerns that this increase will undermine the capacity of the sector to rebound from the Covid-19-related loss of trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50861/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (19 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will put in place an alternative income stream for Offaly County Council to compensate for the €1.65 million loss of commercial rates following the closure of Shannonbridge power station, particularly as this loss represents a 9% in the local authority’s funding; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Covid-19 related financial supports made available to Offaly County Council in 2020 will continue into 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51034/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (19 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address concerns (details supplied) and consider extending the pandemic unemployment payment for self-employed persons in severely impacted cottage industries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50653/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of a social welfare claim based on PRSI contributions is entitled to the fuel allowance payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50917/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a full carer's allowance is entitled to a fuel allowance payment or any other additional social protection supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51035/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (19 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 732. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) is still in receipt of funding from either the HSE or his Department; if it has had its funding suspended as was reported in July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50448/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: Foetal anticonvulsant syndrome is a condition that affects children born to women who were prescribed the anti-epileptic drug Epilim during pregnancy. Children exposed to this drug in the womb have a higher chance of genetic malformations compared to the general population. An additional 40% of children exposed to Epilim experience developmental delays and have a three to five times greater...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Tánaiste for his constructive response and his commitment to seek further information, which I am sure the families will appreciate. I want to point out that the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, did commit to convening a stakeholder group to see what can be done and, certainly, to stamp out the risks associated with Epilim. It is vital that the stakeholder group be...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: We heard from many Government Deputies in the Chamber last night. Shamefully, some rural Deputies were lauding the great budget and, as they termed them, the great climate action measures contained in it. I remind those Deputies who called such measures progressive that there is nothing progressive about the possibility of blackouts. There is nothing progressive about thousands of tonnes...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (13 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to ensure that hedgerows will be included in calculations relating to carbon sequestration figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50021/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (13 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions her Department is taking to combat the trafficking of human beings into Ireland; if her Department has identified significant obstacles to the successful prosecution of those charged with such offences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49940/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding provided to the National Protective Services Bureau within An Garda Síochána; the number of staff currently assigned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49941/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (13 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission that an emerging trend in human trafficking into Ireland involves the trafficking of pregnant women for the purposes of illegal adoption; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49942/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (13 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the collaboration that exists between her Department and a group (details supplied) with respect to combatting human trafficking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49943/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: I am happy to contribute to the debate. I do so from a rural perspective, as part of the Rural Independent Group and as a rural Deputy from Laois-Offaly. I raise the severe defeat for Ireland in regard to our 12.5% rate of corporation tax. That loss is conservatively estimated to be in the region of €2 billion annually to the economy but, of course, that is just the beginning....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on a carer's benefit review will be processed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49210/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (12 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 492. To ask the Minister for Health if he or any official from his Department has held meetings or conducted correspondence with a company (details supplied) from 1 January 2017 to date; if his Department has engaged the services of the company for any purposes from 1 January 2017 to date; if so, the nature of such services and the costs incurred; if a tender process was conducted; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (12 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: 493. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has held meetings or conducted correspondence with a company (details supplied) from 1 January 2017 to date; if the HSE has engaged the services of the company for any purposes from 1 January 2017 to date; if so, the nature of such services and the costs incurred; if a tender process was conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter....