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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with respect to the payment of non-EU third-level fees by Irish citizens educated and currently living outside of the EU; if he has considered any changes in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27020/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: This question was sparked by the real-life experience of a former constituent who is now living outside the European Union. He contacted me to say that his son, who was born in 2004, would like to come back to Ireland to go to college. His son has an Irish PPS number, an Irish bank account, and an Irish passport, but because he is living abroad he will have to pay non-EU fees, which are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response and interest in this matter. He will appreciate that Irish citizens living abroad would like their children to come back here to go to university, but the fees are exorbitant. The Minister said he cannot intervene in this way, but is there any way he can make it easier? Will he consider examining the possibility of making it easier for Irish citizens...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: On that last point, I understand that some other EU countries have changed that rule in that they allow people to go to university there and accept them as European citizens paying only European fees. Even Irish citizens in some countries can have that benefit. I will ask the Minister some questions. When is this policy being reviewed? Has it been reviewed recently? Will he set a review...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: If a jumbo jet with 500 people were to crash in the Atlantic Ocean tonight and all the passengers drowned, it would make headline news tomorrow. Last year, the equivalent of six jumbo jets full of people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to cross into Europe. These were desperate people getting on coffin ships. We had this happen in our own history. Some 186,000 people tried to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024, which is almost through the Seanad. Will the Government give consideration to enacting that Bill so we can have a referendum on it? When might a referendum be held?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UCD Ukraine Trauma Project: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: Apologies for being late, but I was speaking in the Dáil Chamber. It is very hard to believe this is happening in 2024 and that such awful wars are occurring on our Continent, in Gaza and in Sudan, which is beyond appalling as well. There is no sign of any of them finishing and they are, in fact, getting worse. A lot of my questions have been asked so I am not going to repeat them....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 18 June 2024, if the information from the vacancy survey project supported by his Department has been made available to his Department; if so, to list the number of vacant and derelict properties in each individual local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Energy Infrastructure (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 18 June 2024, to list the 31 PV installers referenced in his response and the total number of the 129 applications for PV solar PV panels which were submitted by each of these respective installers, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 475. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 35 of 13 June 2024, to outline the grades and positions that will be filled as part of the funding allocation for the appointment of an additional 2,969 staff in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27133/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I have a final supplementary. Given the amount of time that has elapsed since this project was initially grant funded, the costs have invariably gone up. Is the Minister open to making further moneys available to the project if required?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Does he agree that there does not seem to be a clear policy with respect to community councils at, dare I say it, parish level? We are talking about LCDCs, which are at the level of the county or municipal district. Does he agree that we need to start drilling down to more localised bodies and looking at supporting those? Does he have any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: It may very well be that the very areas the Minister of State has mentioned are those that need the most support. If small local groups are already established, they are well on their way to drawing down grants, supports and so on. Does he agree that where there is nothing at all and where there is no local initiative, we need to put a structure in place whereby somebody goes into an area...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 26 September 2023, the amount of funding made available and drawn down to date under the rural regeneration and development fund on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26445/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: This question has to do with funding being made available by the Department but not being drawn down or only being drawn down after an awfully long time while costs increase dramatically in the meantime. I have highlighted one particular case with the Minister but there are many projects on the Department's desk where funding has been made available but has not been drawn down yet. What is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I am glad this project is moving forward. If funding was granted in 2021 and it will not be ready until 2026, that is quite a while to wait. I understand that there are structural issues. The second question I asked was whether there are many other such projects in the Department where funding was granted quite a considerable while ago but where...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 42. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her Department’s plans, if any, to support the establishment and continued work of community councils across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26446/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: This question concerns the establishment and work of community councils throughout the country. I am sure the Minister of State will agree that these are a very valuable and important resource, which are very often administered under the umbrella of Muintir na Tíre. What are his plans to support the establishment and continue the work of these bodies, especially if they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. It worked in New York, where it was known as the broken windows approach. It was immediate. I met people and saw it in action. Will the Minister re-examine the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister.