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Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: Is amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1 agreed to?

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the vote is deferred until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: Next year will see thousands of participants who joined the rural social scheme in 2017 leaving it after six years. This fundamentally opposes the very purpose of the rural social scheme and is nonsensical in the current environment. The six-year rule should be abolished immediately. Will the Government support such a move and resolve the considerable stress on participants, who are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the work undertaken within his Department to drive insurance premiums down to affordable levels; and when promised legislation reforms will be enacted to support these measures. [32374/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the progress on blended working arrangements across the Civil Service to support Government policy to move to 20% remote home working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 436. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a renewal passport application will issue on time to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that they can fulfil their travel plan. [32333/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 437. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a renewal passport application will issue on time to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that they can fulfil their travel plan. [32334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 438. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a renewal passport application will issue on time to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that they can fulfil their travel plan. [32335/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 527. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) who applied to the foreign birth register will have their application processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32764/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns that teachers and students have in relation to the many changes to the Junior Certificate Irish syllabus which is impacting the teaching and learning experience in Irish classrooms causing enormous stress and anxiety to students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32749/22]

Special Educational Needs: Statements (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: I welcome these statements on special educational needs. The need for investment in special education has been highlighted time and again in my constituency. We have made significant progress in recent years on increasing the number of places in special classes and special schools as well as the number of special education teachers and SNAs to record levels. I compliment the Minister of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: I raise an issue facing thousands of middle-income workers and families. This cohort, the so-called squeezed middle, earn too much to qualify for many State supports and pay a larger proportion of their income at the higher tax band. The Government needs to focus on targeted measures to cut rising costs and increase supports for the so-called squeezed middle. It is crucial that we now...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flexible Work Practices (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support future changes to the current tax arrangements to reinforce support for remote working given the Government’s policy to facilitate same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31359/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cost of Living Issues (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance if an additional VAT derogation will be applied to petrol and fuel to support workers and businesses during the current cost-of-living and inflationary crisis given the latest figures which indicate that the Exchequer collected a new high of over €300 million in taxes on petrol and diesel in April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ukraine War (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of involvement that his Department has had in dealing with the Ukrainian crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31311/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cost of Living Issues (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department’s plans to deal with rising inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31310/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Refugee Resettlement Programme (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the extent that Ireland’s efforts to host and take care of Ukrainian refugees will be supported by the EU Commission through CARE and REACT-EU; the level of funding that has been requested by Government; and the way that Ireland will utilise access to these EU funds to spend across...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 288. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a renewal passport application will issue on time to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that they can fulfil their travel plan. [31529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 289. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a renewal passport application will issue on time to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that they can fulfil their travel plan. [31530/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (15 Jun 2022)

Alan Dillon: 235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that he intends to support coastal communities who have demonstrated the need for increased mackerel quota; when his officials will review the existing allocated quota for mackerel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31044/22]