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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships taken up in each of the years 2016 to 2020 inclusive; the number who left apprenticeship programmes in the same period in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43299/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: 536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current strength of the Garda Reserve by rank; the establishment of the Garda Reserve by rank; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43306/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: 305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 600 of 15 June 2021, when the internal working group established to consider a long-term strategy for unsold affordable housing units last met; the current members of the internal working group; when he expects the working group to meet again; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for coming before us today and the quite substantial volume of information given to us, which has taken a while to read and go through. A question that has been bugging me a little is that this started because the documentation arrived at the Cabinet table without going through meetings prior to that. I am a bit of a loss as to how that could happen. How is it that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister. Currently we have two other special envoys, Mr. Tom Arnold and Mr. Kenneth Thompson, who are doing very important work, although I was not aware of it up to now. It is very valuable. I assume both of these envoys were appointed in a similar way to the proposed appointment of Katherine Zappone. The process involved due diligence in the Department and the work was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: Returning to the names, there is one email in the records released yesterday with no content, but it looks like the full Cabinet memorandum with names was sent by the Minister's Department to the Secretary General of the Government for the Taoiseach's attention the night before the meeting. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: My final question is in respect of the deletion of the text messages, and the phishing and the hacking that takes place. Was the Minister advised formally by the security services to delete text messages? Does the Minister delete them on all platforms or just that particular platform?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: We note that Angela Merkel and others have been hacked in the past. Can the Minister tell me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: This is my final question, Chairman. Is it the intention of the Department and the Government to replace Katherine Zappone and to appoint somebody else to do what appears to me to be quite important work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys and Update on Afghanistan: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (31 Aug 2021)

David Stanton: I will not repeat any of the questions that have been asked. I will declare one thing at the beginning. When I was Chairman of the justice committee a number of years ago, I served with the then Senator, Katherine Zappone, and found her to be an independent thinker, courageous, brave, very talented, very diplomatic, highly respected, hard-working and selfless. I want to put that on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: 2824. To ask the Minister for Health the situation with respect to the resumption of indoor dining for those who have received only one dose of a two shot Covid-19 vaccination, having been advised by their medical practitioner against receiving a second dose for medical reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39295/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: I was involved in driving the recognition of ethnicity five years ago and it is disappointing, as was said earlier, that more has not progressed since then. That was a major step and I remember the night in the Dáil when everybody stood up and applauded. It was seen as a big step forward and we can still build on that. We should all take serious note of what my friend and colleague,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Research Funding (15 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: 42. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the ongoing research projects being funded by his Department to address the challenges of climate change in the agricultural sector; the further assistance his Department plans to provide in progressing this research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38548/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: 45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the incentives in place to encourage young persons to take up farming as a career; the enrolment trends for the respective agricultural colleges for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38549/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the incentives his Department has in place or plans to put in place to support house owners who wish to relocate from properties that are too big for their needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38772/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (15 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: 447. To ask the Minister for Health the annual capital funding received by each agency under section 38 of the Health Act 2004 in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33073/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Belarus: Discussion with Ms Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (15 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: I welcome our guests. I commend them on their courage and bravery and on the work they are doing. It is appalling what is happening in Belarus. Senator Craughwell has asked about journalists and the press. I would like some more information on other forms of communication and information available in Belarus, such as the Internet, mobile phone usage, etc.. Is there also a crackdown in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Pre-Budget Submission: Dóchas (14 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: I thank our guests for making time to be here today and for the work they and their teams are doing across the world. It strikes me that, as we sit here today, our country is convulsed with a debate as to whether we should allow indoor dining and whether people should be allowed go into restaurants for slap-up feeds. Now we hear about what is happening in other parts of the world. The...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2021)

David Stanton: 392. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of applications received for first time enlistment in the Army, Air Corps and the Naval Service, respectively, in 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of such applications that were successful and resulted in enlistment; the number of applicants who enlisted in the Defence Forces and have since left; the reasons for such...