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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 1390. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a contribution is requested from beneficiaries of temporary protection to date who are in employment and are residing in State-funded accommodation or State-provided accommodation in 2023; and if so, the amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57242/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 1403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) were in receipt of State-funded accommodation on 31 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 1404. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the occupancy figures in respect of State-funded accommodation to beneficiaries of temporary protection on 31 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1011/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 1492. To ask the Minister for Health how many medical cards were provided to people in receipt of temporary protection; the total cost of medical care provided pursuant to the said medical cards to people in receipt of temporary protection since February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56475/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 1595. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 574 of 28 November 2023, which he claimed only part of which related to operational matters, will be answered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57133/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 1646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1113/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 1766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people that have been approved for home help services in County Clare but are still waiting to be allocated the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1761/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: On that very issue, there is increasing speculation within the House, and particularly outside it, and I would like to give the Government the opportunity to dispel it. The speculation is that the reason for the non-payment is not computer problems but rather that the Minister’s ambition for the scheme overshot his budget. That is an acknowledged problem in other Departments but I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I can say it is circulating.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: The money is not there.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I do not think a duck could swim the Dodder.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: At the outset, I asked whether the Minister thinks that the concentration of ownership within the processing sector, which includes the rendering sector, is part of the problem and is coming back to bite the Department, as it has done. Farmers have been objecting to the concentration of power in the beef processing sector for a very long time. Is the fact that there are so few renderers and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: 11. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will promulgate emergency interim measures to allow farmers and knackeries to dispose of dead animals in light of their accumulation, with the resultant risk to sanitation, due to the strike by renderers since 1 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55812/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: Will the Minister promulgate emergency interim measures to allow farmers and knackeries to dispose of dead animals in light of their accumulation, with the resulting risk to sanitation, due to the strike by renderers since 1 December 2023? Will he make a statement on the matter? Perhaps that statement might address whether the concentration of power and ownership in the processing sector is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: For parts of the country, it will be of great benefit to be able to dispose of animals in Northern Ireland; however, for the part of the country I represent, and I dare say any part south of that, it will be less helpful, purely because of the geography. The cost of driving dead animals from west Cork to Northern Ireland would be prohibitive. I do not know whether the Minister can tell us...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teagasc Activities (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: When we talk about sustainable farming, there is a great deal of talk about sustainability generally, and everybody claims to be sustainable. For example, Amazon is very sustainable, notwithstanding the very large proportion of returns which went to landfill and the fact it is wiping out shops in small towns and villages across Ireland. This firm claims to be sustainable. Likewise, a big...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teagasc Activities (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: Yes it is, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Big discount retailers stick a seeding roof on their shop a call themselves sustainable. When we talk about sustainable agriculture, we have to know exactly we mean by sustainable. It is very important to define that. I know that a newly elected Green Party councillor in 2019 said that Origin Green was painting a false image to the world and that it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct his Department to make interim, part payments immediately to farmers in ACRES tranche one, following the announcement by his Department that it will not pay monies out on this scheme until February 2024, in view of farmers’ reliance on the scheme payments to pay end-of-year bills; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: 469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 481 of 5 December 2023, if his Department seeks any record of individual occupancy per night from IPAS accommodation contract providers; if it maintains any record of individual occupancy in IPAS accommodation centres per night; if he will provide any such figures in his...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I will make a point of order. Standing Orders provide that, where there is a substantial amendment made on Committee or Report and Final Stage, the Ceann Comhairle or Cathaoirleach of the committee, as the case may be, may direct that a new explanatory memorandum be provided. In this instance, amendment No. 84, which the Minister moved, runs to some seven pages. There are more than 60...