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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That was a good overview. I thank Dr. Doorley. Did she say that five Departments had access to it and regularly used it?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That makes sense. I imagine that the pandemic will pose a statistical challenge in the coming years in terms of the anomalies that it has thrown up. Parsing those data into a system will be a considerable challenge. I do not see anyone's hand up for another question, so I suspect that we are at the end of this session. I thank Dr. Keane and Dr. Doorley for their attendance and for their...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Deputy Canney. Our next speaker is Deputy Mairéad Farrell, whom we have lost. She was online a second ago. We will give her a moment to come back. In the meantime, I might ask some questions if that is okay with our witnesses. I have a number of questions but I will stay on Deputy Canney's point around disability. The ESRI very kindly sent us that report from 2019, which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (1 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the oversight process on progressing the delivery and implementation of accessible infrastructure for disabled students such as lifts and ramps, once funding has been approved and contractors appointed, in order that schools are fully inclusive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4716/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Site Acquisition (1 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement her Department has had with a school (details supplied) in relation to its new permanent school location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4357/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken by his Department to promote and fund dedicated LGBTQI+ emergency accommodation within homelessness services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4565/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out in respect of the €20 million capital allocation announced in budget 2022 to schools for the purchase of books, audio books and other media, the way schools can access such funding; the timeline for the roll-out of the funding; her plans to conduct an evaluation of its impact after the fact; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 634. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Immunisation Advisory Committee plan to revisit its recommendation in relation to the interval between the primary vaccine series and booster doses for those who have had a breakthrough infection in terms of reducing the current three-month recommendation further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4280/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 686. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making the HPV vaccine available free of cost to all persons up to age of 45 years given the October 2018 announcement from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States of America that the approved age for the HPV vaccine had been increased up to age 45 years for women and men; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (1 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 791. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to promote and advertise the use of the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive scheme to help alleviate waiting lists for medical procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5037/22]

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to the issue of BusConnects, considering we are talking about getting people in and out of Dublin with the least congestion possible. We are rightly investing in BusConnects and I am very hopeful about it as a project. However, I am worried about the return on BusConnects as an investment in terms of existing bus lanes, which are certainly a major issue in my constituency,...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: At present, it resides in the Department. The NTA is not necessarily organising it. There is no work ongoing in the NTA. Is this correct?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is it fair to say the NTA has the expert-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I might bring in the departmental officials. Before I move away from the NTA, however, I want to ask whether it fair to say that it has the expertise in-house if responsibility were to be placed in its hands?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will turn to the Department of Transport on this issue. There are often concerns about privacy with regard to camera enforcement. It works very well in other countries. Is there current and active work on this?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Ms Brogan. As somebody who lives in the constituency of Dublin Central, I know that it will be fundamental to the working of BusConnects. On a somewhat related issue, and this is probably more for the NTA, I want to ask about investment in red light cameras. The small programme to date has focused on protecting the Luas. Are there plans to expand this to protect pedestrians or...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It was a very small pilot that we had been waiting on for a very long time.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It would have a huge impact, particularly in urban areas, on the feeling of safety that people with disabilities in particular have when crossing the road. I only have four minutes and I do not want it all taken up with this question. On a possibly related matter, will the witnesses quickly outline the oversight of local authorities on the investment in active travel? I am particularly...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that review undertaken in direct reference to DMURS?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I know DMURS can be seen sometimes as a narrative document and as being open to interpretation, but off the top of my head I can point to a number of projects that certainly do not comply with DMURS that have been built recently.