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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: I just caught the end of Deputy Heydon's contribution. My query also relates to rail services in Kildare but I think it is of a slightly different nature. As the Minister knows, I have been raising the plight of Kildare commuters since I entered this House and since the Minister became a Minister. At the stations in Sallins, Naas, Kilcock, Maynooth, Celbridge and elsewhere we have a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: The Minister made a number of points in his reply. They are strong on rhetoric but they lack timelines or details. I am quite familiar with the issues because I have worked on the issue for a decade, long before I became a Deputy. I have tabled many parliamentary questions and some of the responses I received actually contradict the information in the Minister's speech. I hope that is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: I offer the Minister an invitation to come to Sallins one morning so that he can travel with me on the train. Let us try to park a car at 7.30 a.m. in the station and circle a few times to get a space.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: Then let us get on the train and see if the two of us can actually find some room. Then let us get off at Heuston and see if the two of us can manage to get on the Luas.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: I do that most days and I would be delighted if he would join me so he can see for himself.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: The programme for Government details investment in second level education. I have raised the issue of Naas Community College on many occasions in the Chamber. It was instructed to begin enrolment in 2014. It is to have 1,000 pupils when the building is constructed but, for the fourth year in a row, it has an enrolment crisis. The town of Naas is now facing a school accommodation crisis....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (23 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the significant increase in overcrowding in Naas hospital emergency department over the past two years. [43596/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (23 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an illness benefit payment in the case of a person (details supplied) will be normalised; the status or changes to the system which have resulted in delayed or irregular payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43185/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (23 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the illness benefit payment to a person (details supplied) will be normalised; the status of changes to the system which has resulted in delayed or irregular payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43208/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Reform (23 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an illness benefit payment will be normalised in the case of a person (details supplied); the status of changes to the system which have resulted in delayed or irregular payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43417/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (23 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an illness benefit payment will be normalised in the case of a person (details supplied); the status of changes to the system which has resulted in delayed or irregular payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43694/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Bodies Membership (18 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a timeline for Ireland becoming a member of CERN will be committed to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36141/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Bodies Membership (18 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: My question is about CERN, the laboratory for particle physics and international collaboration in a variety of technologies, which is headquartered in Geneva. Ireland has made great strides in research and development and science but it is a blot on our copybook that we are yet to apply for membership of CERN. We are a member of most other such bodies but we stand alone with Moldova and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Bodies Membership (18 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: Professor Emmanuel Tsesmelis visited Ireland in July 2018, at my invitation. I travelled to CERN, on my own steam, in March this year to meet him with an Irish delegation that included Professor Ronan McNulty from UCD. I was very impressed with the facilities and the capacity at the institute but the lack of Irish involvement was striking. We are, in fact, precluded from further...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Bodies Membership (18 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: I agree, as the committee did, that associate membership would be the way forward. In recent discussions, the price tag has been raised and €30 million does seem very high. We could, however, be associate members for €1.3 million. A total of €500 million is being made available for the emerging technologies fund so we could take €1 million from that and leave...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Supports (18 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is satisfied that the national research prioritisation exercise allocated sufficient funding and resources to research projects in the discovery and basic oriented research areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36140/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the construction and remaining stages of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41826/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale behind taxation on passive investments every seven years as though those investments had been divested; his views on whether this may be an impediment to the use of such investments as long-term pension style instruments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42991/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (17 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: 55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and reservists in each Garda station in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42426/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Irish Membership of CERN: Discussion (16 Oct 2018)

James Lawless: I welcome the delegation. It is great to have them before the committee today. I thank Professor McNulty for a very comprehensive overview of CERN and the benefits membership would bring. I was fortunate enough to travel to CERN with Professor McNulty earlier this year. We had a very productive two days meeting with the academics, researchers and technicians there. I certainly learned an...