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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I welcome the ambassador and her team. I thank her for her presentation. The ambassador covered much ground with my colleague. I will ask some questions on other matters. I will zero in on the nuclear power plant. The ambassador stated that seven pillars of nuclear safety and security have been compromised in Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: Sorry. It might be my Cork accent. The ambassador said that seven pillars of nuclear safety and security have been compromised at the nuclear power plant. Physical integrity is one. I understand the second is that safety and security systems are not functional. The rest are: staff being safe and secure; off-site power supply; uninterrupted supply chains; on-site and off-site radiation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: As well as Russia itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: My second question relates to the moves to facilitate Ukraine becoming a member of the European Union. The ambassador stated that much progress has been made in this regard. In her view, what are the next steps?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: Earlier this week, some equipment - military vehicles - was sent to Ukraine, specifically 20 4X4s, two ambulances and eight low loaders. I have been told there is a huge need for more of that kind of equipment – ambulances, buses, trucks and so on. Perhaps the committee could help with that and put out a call to people across Ireland who have vehicles like that which are not being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: We could put out the call today that if people out there – companies, individuals, the State – have vehicles and equipment like that, they can contact the ambassador and arrange to send it to Ukraine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: What is happening there is barbaric. It is terrible. Thousands of children have been abducted and people have been killed and injured in a war with no real aim except greed, power-grabbing and land-grabbing. It makes no sense at all and the cost to everyone on all sides is horrendous. What can be done with the funding can be for good and yet it is being ploughed into war with no sign of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place to support teachers and special needs assistants who have been injured while working in the classroom and in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26296/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware if local authorities in the State are compiling and maintaining registers of vacant properties, as distinct from registers of derelict properties, in their administrative area; if so, if his Department is advised of details of any such registers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25989/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 28 May 2024, the number of companies involved in submitting the 129 forms which were those other than his Department's official S198 form for the installation of solar PV under TAMS 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26298/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 28 May 2024, the way his Department ensures that the person signing the specific form mentioned in his response is a currently registered Safe Electric Ireland electrician; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25739/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: The purpose of this question is to ask the Minister how his Department ensures that persons signing the form relating to the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, solar photo-voltaic, PV, panels are registered Safe Electric Ireland electricians, bearing in mind that more than half of the TAMS 2 processed grants were processed on the basis of forms that were not from the Department...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. Form S198 from the Department is very comprehensive and contains registered electrical contractor details, as the Minister outlined. This is the SEAI form. It is basically the same, but not exactly the same because it does not contain those details. There is no way of checking whether the person who filled out the form is an approved Safe Electric...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: It does not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: They do not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I accept the Minister's bona fides. However, I am taking information from replies to previous parliamentary questions I tabled. Half of those applications were on the wrong forms. They are very similar but not they are not the same. There is serious information missing from one to the other. I am really worried about this. Does the Minister agree that farmers are at a legal...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: Apologies for having to leave. I had a parliamentary question to take in the Dáil Chamber. I was listening online as best I could to the debate. I thank the witnesses for being here and for the work they have done. To continue the conversation on the Portuguese model, I went there a number of years ago with a committee. We visited and spent time engaging with all the actors involved...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: The witnesses talked about different metrics and the need for services. That was evident when we visited a number of years ago. Without the backup and follow-on services and treatment, and help and support in that area, once people got into the dissuasion area and the services were not there, they were in trouble and going nowhere. Have the witnesses carried out analysis or discussion of...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: Will Mr. O'Regan speak about the different levels of intervention he mentioned? I take it there is education, treatment, counselling and so on. What levels of intervention are we talking about?

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I am interested in two areas. The first is respect of recommendation 21 and when the witnesses speak about family members and resourcing family members, extended support networks and supporting people affected by drugs use. I am also interested in the role of education in schools, particularly youth services in this space and the role they would have. Could Mr. Reid comment on those please?