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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is my final question and it is for everybody. Do the witnesses know of anybody who is in their late fifties, sixties or seventies who would be loaned anything between €50,000 and €150,000 by any financial institution in the State? Is anybody aware of a financial institution that would be in a position to lend such an amount to people of that age?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a first-time passport application (details supplied) will be processed in time for travel on 14 May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21222/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a first-time passport application (details supplied) will be processed in time for travel on 14 May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21223/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when clarity will be provide to the SEAI by his Department and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications to ensure that applicants to the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme can avail of the maximum SEAI retrofitting grant. [21632/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to increase the cap for the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme in line with increased building construction costs, as advised by an organisation (details supplied). [21631/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (9 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the draft regulations pertaining to the defective concrete block scheme for social housing remediation works will be adopted and published (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21022/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (9 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she and her Department will engage with the UK authorities to examine if an exemption could be allowed for Ukrainian refugee children based in Donegal and other Border counties to travel across the Border into Northern Ireland to avail of amenities such as swimming, cinemas and school tours. [21070/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services Staff (9 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with her colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs on what can be done to assist medical professionals working in our health service who have family back home in Sudan, by way of humanitarian assistance; and if she has received requests for humanitarian visas for family members of these medical...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As we are debating Europe Day and Ireland's place in the EU, I will take the opportunity to talk about one group for which the experience has been negative, our fishing and coastal communities. The issue relates to how the Common Fisheries Policy has been rolled out, interpreted and enforced in Ireland and how it has repeatedly gone unchanged. A 14-year-old girl has done more than most in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise for joining the meeting late. I could not join earlier because I had responsibilities in the Dáil, but I was present for the entire session last week. My first questions are for Mr. Rafferty and Mr. Wickham. Could I ask them if they watched the entirety of last week's proceedings? Did they watch them back or get a chance to review them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: So Mr. Rafferty is aware of the testimony given by the representatives from Engineers Ireland at last week's meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Did it trouble him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It did not trouble Mr. Rafferty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To clarify, the evidence from last week that Mr. Rafferty watched and then reviewed concerned him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To clarify, is Mr. Rafferty referring to Engineers Ireland?