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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding front-line workers for homeless service charities (details supplied) who worked throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; if they are being considered for the €1,000 Covid recognition payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8545/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8546/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: I will ask about the planning exemptions for solar panels. The microgeneration support scheme received Government approval last month and the large retrofit scheme was announced only last week allowing premises to install and use solar panels, including schools, churches, community buildings and farm buildings. I understand the requirement for strategic environmental assessment. That is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: 392. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7488/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: 626. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be eligible for the €1,000 payment allocated to frontline workers for their efforts during the pandemic. [8318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (15 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: 889. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Departmental review of the dental medical card scheme; if a timeline can be provided for its completion; his plans to alleviate access issues to dentists for medical card holders in the short-term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8317/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: 890. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of existing mental health supports for children in County Wicklow; the number of children under 18 years of age who are waiting three months or longer to see a psychologist following a referral from a general practitioner; the steps he is taking to reduce wait times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8320/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Research and Development (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: 97. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of research conducted by his Department into technologies companies that could assist with increasing the speed of housing construction projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of research carried out by his Department in the past five years in the west County Wicklow area regarding the potential benefits of vaccinating badgers as opposed to culling them to prevent the spread of tuberculosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6050/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: The committee is meeting to consider the Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to the committee. He is accompanied by Mr. Colin Ryan, senior adviser on national, regional and urban planning policy at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and Mr. Terry Sheridan, principal officer of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: All of us welcome these measures. The Minister will know the committee had a series of three meetings in which we considered urban and rural regeneration in towns and villages and measures like these. We will produce a report, which we will send to him, and I hope he will take on board some of its recommendations. It fits well with the objectives of the town centre first approach and many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: I will now put that to the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed. As we are short on time, I ask that everyone be brief with questions and answers. I first go to Deputy McAuliffe and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: I call Deputy Ó Broin. It would be great if he can keep questions as tight as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: I call Deputy Flaherty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Steven Matthews: The Deputy is eating into Deputy Flaherty's time.