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Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Deputy Curran. We are delighted to get this Bill to Second Stage. It is necessary legislation which we introduced on First Stage recently. I wish to address the reasons Fianna Fáil is introducing this legislation. Quad bikes and scramblers are terrorising too many communities. It is a growing and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a proposal to house six classes from a secondary school in a nearby Gaelscoil (details supplied); if his Department approved plans for such a move; his views on whether such a move would impact on the ethos of the school; his plans to prevent the move; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18584/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of rank and file gardaí in Terenure Garda station since 2012, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18401/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Patronage (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 605. To ask the Minister for Health the owner of St. Vincent's Private Hospital, Dublin; and the owner of St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin. [18397/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 606. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and-or grants for building, plant or equipment provided to St. Vincent's University Hospital since 2010, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18398/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and-or grants for building, plant or equipment provided to St. Vincent's Private Hospital since 2010, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18399/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Supply (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the lack of resources made available to second level schools that have teachers out on long-term sick leave; his plans to address the shortfall in substitute teachers for second level schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18174/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fill a vacancy on the National Council for Special Education (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the backlog the vacancy is causing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18175/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: On a very small scale, much smaller than------

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister and his officials for their willingness to attend, unlike one of the Secretaries General, to whom the Chairman has written several times. I am sure there will be another opportunity for us to meet him. I am delighted that the Minister has committed to meeting formally with the Minister for Health to monitor the health budget. He said that he and the Minister have met...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: Did any red flags emerge at those meetings?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: Was expenditure lower than expected in January and February and higher in March?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: With regard to the property tax, what does the Minister say to the people who live on one side of the road and have been paying property tax continuously for a number of years, while someone who buys a newly-built house opposite them is paying no property tax?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: The Minister expects an increased yield from it, given that thousands of properties that are not included in the existing local property tax will be brought into a revised or reviewed local property tax. Would that yield be commensurate with the numbers that are being brought in or does the Minister expect to increase the yield anyway?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: As they are valued now?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (17 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: As the Ceann Comhairle knows, this matter was deferred to today. In a parliamentary question to the Minister in March, I asked about the archaeological significance and importance of the find at the excavation of lands at Scholarstown. They are known as the lands where the late former Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, lived. I obtained a brief response to that question and an even briefer response...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (17 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: I am grateful for the Minister's response. I did not get a copy of her script, so I would be grateful for that too. I received a two-line reply from the Minister to a parliamentary question on this issue yesterday. She has given a much more comprehensive reply today. There is an urgency about the situation. While I take the Minister's point that none of this would have been discovered...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (16 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. While I am grateful that the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, is here, I ask him to express my serious disappointment to the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan, at her non-attendance. It is not often that the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is called on for Topical Issues. If...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (16 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: If it could be rescheduled within the current week.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (16 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: The matter is one of significance for the constituency of Dublin South-West, in particular the Scholarstown area, and I would like the Minister to respond in person.