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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Leddin wanted to come in.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (4 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he is taking to scale up the retrofit of low-income homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52962/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (4 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure that communities can develop their own renewable energy projects; if he has a target for the number of community projects to be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52963/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he is taking to provide better regional public transport connections to address rural car dependency, improve local economies and to reduce transport carbon emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53504/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Accidents (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to enact legislation to address the shortcoming identified in the Clinch report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53101/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 288. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for the extension of the excise relief programme which will offer 50% excise relief to small-scale cider producers following on from the announcement in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53099/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 450. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the increase to official development assistance announced in the budget in real terms; the meaning for the percentage spend on official development assistance for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53093/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 451. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if in view of budget 2022, he will now publish a roadmap to reaching 0.7% of GNI on official development assistance by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53094/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 452. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the oversight his Department has on official development assistance in the context of international aid allocated to other Departments in the context of budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53097/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of Way (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the passing of the Bill to amend the provisions in the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 in relation to rights of way; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53100/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Overseas Development Aid (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1059. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of his Department’s budget for 2022 which is being considered as part of Official Development Assistance in the context of international aid; the measures this budget will be spent on; the section in his Department that will be overseeing this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53095/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1060. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the recruitment plans for neurology nurse specialists for University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53098/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Budgets (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of his Department’s budget for 2022 which is being considered as part of Official Development Assistance in the context of international aid; the measures this budget will be spent on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53096/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank everyone who presented to us. This has been an interesting session because we have focused to a great degree on skills, which is welcome. One of the recurring themes that we are seeing throughout this process is that we must differentiate between senior cycle and the leaving certificate. Too often, they are viewed as one and the same. I wonder whether by overfocusing on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It would provide a pathway that sidesteps the leaving certificate and possibly allows someone to take the leaving certificate without feeling a level of pressure whereby everything in his or her life will depend on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: At a meeting of the committee two weeks ago, I asked a question about guidance counselling to which I suspected there would be a one-word answer. I suspect it will be the same at this session. Do we need to seriously invest in second level in order that guidance counselling is available? The Chairman put together a significant unit of work on bullying in schools. The need for guidance...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 11. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a report (details supplied) will examine the way Ireland can position itself to take advantage of the growing international trend to plant-based diets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51527/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My question is about the KPMG report recently commissioned by the Department, which is to examine the trend towards plant-based diets or increasing the amount of plants in our diets. Will the parameters of that report allow us to examine ways in which Ireland can position itself to take better advantage of that growing market internationally?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: One of the things that have driven me mad for years, particularly at this time of the year, is to walk past apple trees laden down with apples only to find New Zealand apples on the shelves of our supermarkets. Mick Kelly had a similar journey with regard to garlic when he set up GIY Ireland Limited. He was looking at Chinese garlic on the shelves when it is so easy to grow it in this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a massive opportunity for local and rural jobs, in particular. The horticultural sector is worth approximately €467 million per annum to the economy, and approximately 6,600 people are directly employed in it. There are many different sectors within it, but in field vegetables we have gone from 300 operators in 1999 to 140 operators now. The number has more than halved in that...