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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver tests will be facilitated for persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28753/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that will be taken to assist parents and students who have paid for accommodation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28090/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 629. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28080/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 638. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28142/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 661. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to the disability sector, particularly a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28279/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if the case of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28000/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Prevention Measures (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding dredging; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28018/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when pandemic unemployment payment arrears will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27739/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 396. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the governing authority over the protection of the forest estate here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27758/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Timber Supply (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to a ban on the importation of logs and timber from countries that have an infestation of the bark beetle in view of the fact that not to do so will jeopardise the timber here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27759/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received an ANC payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27836/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: 415. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28031/20]

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: To clarify, 1 million tonnes of timber are stuck in the appeals process at the moment, which is 25% of the independent requirement. Another 1 million tonnes are stuck at the application stage. Deputies, including the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, asked about statistics, so I will outline a couple. In the past four years, the FAC has heard only 33% of the appeals that have been put forward. In...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: A person can only listen to so much. I hate referring to Deputies directly but I must do so after Deputy Boyd Barrett's outburst. He is completely contradicting himself.

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, I am coming to that but Deputy Boyd Barrett was allowed to make statements here tonight and he must be taken to task on them. He must be asked whether he accepts that there is a crisis in our timber industry at present. Why are we debating this? Why is the Bill coming in here at all? Why have party and non-party Deputies agreed to facilitate the passing of this legislation in the...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am coming back now to the subject at hand and will address the Minister and Minister of State but I could not let Deputy Boyd Barrett away with that. He cannot come in here, talk rubbish and get away with it. I will come back now to the Minister and the Minister of State's performance and response. For God's sake, I must challenge them for coming along and saying that they will deal with...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am disappointed with the Minister of State's performance here this evening. The one thing that I will say to both the Minister and the Minister of State is that they should remember 30 September because the people of Ireland are watching and they listened carefully to what the Minister of State said earlier on. There are many millers watching this tonight and many contractors who are...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: I support the amendment. Section 18 of the Forestry Act 2014 sets out the timeframe within which the Minister and officials are required to make a decision on an initial felling licence application. The wording of section 18 is loose and, therefore, the timeframe of four months is merely an objective. It is an aspiration and need not be met. Therefore, the deadline of four months is not a...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: I wish the Minister of State good luck in her new role. Section 7(3) of the Bill contains the commencement provision. This means that, before the Bill can have any impact, the Minister needs to make a commencement order. Sometimes, an Act is commenced all in one go, but it is quite common for an Act to be commenced on a phased basis, in other words, in dribs and drabs. A delay to the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: The two Deputies who have just spoken on this issue are 100% correct. These are the same students whose parents paid for student accommodation on Friday afternoon, only to discover on Friday night that the accommodation might not be required because the universities and colleges they are going to might not be operating in that way for the next number of weeks or months and perhaps until...