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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (1 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the responses issued to the appeal made by the parents of a child (details supplied) for the provision of school bus services. [18750/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a date has been set for a meeting of the high level forum on community employment supervisor pensions; if his attention has been drawn to the anger and frustration of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; his views on the fact that their contribution to improving the life chances of scheme participants and to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a financial assessment of the implication of missing 2020 targets (details supplied) has been carried out. [17849/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to ensure that the State ameliorates the shortfall in meeting its binding 2020 targets. [17848/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that according to inter alia the EPA, the Climate Change Advisory Council and the SEAI, Ireland will miss its legally binding 2020 targets. [17847/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an all Government approach to the issue of climate change is being taken in view of the climate ambition of An Taoiseach. [17851/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Incentives (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to publish the renewable energy support scheme in view of the fact that public consultation was opened in September 2017 and closed on 10 November 2017; the gigawatts he plans to allocate to the various technologies, that is, wind, solar and biomass; and if the design of the auction system will be technology...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Children First Guidelines (24 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement his Department has had with sports clubs regarding responsibilities under Children First; and the organisations he has met with since coming into office with regard to Children First and ensuring that all policies are being met by sports clubs in all codes. [9004/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Accommodation (24 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of houses used as official accommodation by An Garda Síochána that are within the remit of the OPW by county and exact location; the number that are fully occupied and empty, respectively; and his plans to return empty dwellings to full occupancy. [17981/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Accommodation (24 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of houses used as official accommodation for An Garda Síochána within the remit of the Office of Public Works by county and location in tabular form; the number that are fully occupied; the number that are unoccupied; and if he plans to return empty dwellings to full occupancy. [18003/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if services will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17433/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (24 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in fines levied against Ireland for breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [17417/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Funding (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I accept the Minister's answer to the House and support her in her endeavours. Although no Member wants funding to be unnecessarily withdrawn, if there are question marks over governance standards, the taxpayer investment in the organisation should be withheld until those governance issues are dealt with. I ask the Minister to keep in mind the volunteers at a local level because they are...

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Funding (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I raise this issue along with Deputy Rabbitte on the basis that we are both concerned about it and are both members of the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs. We are both conscious that this story seemed to emerge in the public domain through The Irish Timesbut, until now, this House has not had an opportunity to discuss the issue. We were conscious about giving the issue an...

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this issue. As we speak, I have a Bill before the House on the prohibition of microbeads. It is before the committee. On 28 March, we had a positive engagement with experts from NUI Galway, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and the Department's officials regarding the Bill's progression. I noted the words of the Minister of State, Deputy English,...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: That is a steer.

Committee on Public Petitions (18 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I advise members to turn off their mobile phones or put them into airplane mode.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (18 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The first petition for consideration is Petition No. P00025/17. The petitioner is seeking a legislative amendment to be included in budget 2018 to allow him, as a holder of an approved minimum retirement fund, AMRF, to make withdrawals subject to the same rules that applied when he made the investment in 2013. Do any members wish to contribute to this issue? No. It is proposed to forward...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (18 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Certainly. In terms of dealing with the specific petition before us I believe we have agreed an approach.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (18 Apr 2018)

Seán Sherlock: There is a wider societal issue about how we facilitate more home working, but perhaps that is a discussion we could have at our next meeting. We will discuss the points the Senator is raising to see if we should correspond in the context of this petition about the wider societal issue. Is the Senator agreeable to that?