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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the contract for the issuing of new ballistic vests for front-line gardaí will be put out to tender. [62924/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time senior investigating officers; and the total full-time equivalent of each child protection unit since 2019. [62925/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (15 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who were successfully prosecuted in the Meath Garda division for driving a vehicle without a valid licence in each of the years of 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [62926/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates currently detained in the Irish Prison Service who are solely being held on remand for between four and eight months and over eight months. [62927/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of staff working in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, who have received their Covid recognition payment; and when the remaining eligible staff will receive this payment. [62932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases (15 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the infectious diseases clinical programme; the status of the establishment of a network of infectious diseases clinics; the number of such clinics established and operational to date; and the locations of all infectious diseases' clinics, operational or planned. [62933/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (15 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time pharmacists and senior pharmacists working in the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics in each of the years of 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased. [62934/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (15 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if the new National Children's Hospital will have the capacity and specialist staff to carry out heart and lung transplants for children aged under 16 years. [62935/22]

Cost of Renewables Taskforce Bill 2022: First Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Cost of Renewables Taskforce Bill 2022: First Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to require the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to establish a cross-departmental taskforce to examine the cost of producing renewable energy in Ireland; to provide for this taskforce to consult with stakeholders and deliver within six months policy recommendations to the Minister on ways to reduce the...

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for tabling this motion. It gives us an opportunity to highlight how broken our electricity system is and how the privatisation and marketisation of it has failed our citizens. The failures of energy liberalisation are now widely accepted, but often not in the corridors are power. These failures are exemplified by the decline in the social value,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I apologise that I missed the start of the meeting. I was caught in the Chamber. There is a chance I will go over old ground but I would appreciate if the witnesses would touch on their earlier comments and expand on them. My first question relates to their sense of Dublin Airport's readiness for Christmas. What is Aer Lingus's expected traffic for Christmas 2022 relative to Christmas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: That is short haul. I suppose the numbers for long haul are smaller.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The DAA says it is are working on the basis of comparable figures with 2019 in its engagement with Aer Lingus and other airlines. Aer Lingus is probably as familiar as we are with its plans for Christmas. Is Aer Lingus content and satisfied that things are in hand and will run smoothly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Mr. O'Neill for that. From the opening statement, I note the piece on sustainability, some agreements Aer Lingus has on the west coast of the US and some planned operations in the North. Will the witnesses give a sense of that environment, the incentives, why the company has to go to the west coast of the United States to secure contracts like that and what it might take to improve...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: On the type of engagement, what gives rise to that type of study and that partnership in other jurisdictions from a commercial innovation perspective? Is Aer Lingus driving it? Are other jurisdictions driving it? Is the Government driving it or the department in the North? That is the kind of thing I am interested in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The Dublin Airport capital programme is important to Aer Lingus in respect of its hub operation. Is it satisfied with the capital programme and, more important, with the schedule of delivery? I guess from the perspective of the DAA, there is a particular funding model and assessment of risk. Is there a need for review of that or is Aer Lingus content with the pace and plan of development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: What does Mr. Moriarty think that is related to? If we were to talk to the DAA before this committee, would it point towards constraints it has to live within in terms of regulation or in terms of some of the planning system, as he pointed to. That is fair enough, but there is this issue of authority's funding and how it assesses risk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: It will give them a long enough horizon. Was there a concern that they did not have a long enough horizon?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I would wonder why the airport would not want to realise the same sort of ambition.