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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Administration (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 196. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding oyster licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17918/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 226. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing will be held in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17887/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17943/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of arrears in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18024/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18049/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switch off. This is important as they cause interference for our broadcasting, editorial and sound staff. Today I am delighted we will have engagement on alliance building to strengthen the European Union with Ms Aingeal O'Donoghue, director general of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Mr. Joe Hackett, Deputy Permanent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the speakers. For their benefit I must explain that committee members are not leaving. A vote has been called. We have just lost two Senators but they will try to come back. Sometimes there is a double vote. I say this so the witnesses are aware it is not bad manners on the members' part. Sometimes in Leinster House a lot of people are trying to be in two or three places at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Senator is on time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Deputy. The joint committee's last engagement was with Ms Catherine Day, who spoke very well on the issue of Ireland's alliance building and who gave the joint committee a lot of food for thought. She suggested that Ireland needs to do more to understand the positions of other member states and to offer more support to them on issues that are not necessarily important to us....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Before I call the ambassador I will ask some of our other members to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Before we continue, I welcome the Portuguese delegation. I hope they are having a very enjoyable stay. I know they have had a busy itinerary so far but they are very welcome and I thank them for taking time to be here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Senator and invite Mr. Hackett to make a final response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Mr. Hackett and Ms O'Donoghue and I also thank Ms Ciara Delaney and Ms Claire Callaghan for attending. We appreciate their time very much and again I apologise. They will understand that members come and go. At these meetings and engagements, even though sometimes members are not present, they always get to see and hear all of the questions and answers and the total engagement so...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: We all know what the problems are but we need to know what solutions can be brought forward to try to resolve this critical situation. Insurance reform is needed. Action is needed to finally put the nail on what I would call bogus claims. It is totally unnatural. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, is a politician - forget about being a Minister - who deals in the real world out there with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome any additional resources for extra personnel. They certainly will not be idle because of the massive increase in applications over the last two to three years. More people are travelling, including people who may not have travelled in a decade, and that is most welcome. There are simple measures that we can take to alert people that they ought to check their passports. It is a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Is there any possibility of really looking at the value for money of a printing machine in Cork?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if airlines will be contacted to request the passport details of persons when they book flights (details supplied); and if a printing service will be provided in the Cork passport office. [17821/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: What I would call the passport season is upon us. Unfortunately, many people run into difficulties at this time because of a lack of preparedness in having their passports ready. There are very simple, straightforward measures that could be put in place to alert people to the need to check their passport expiry dates. If when booking flights they were prompted to furnish their passport...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: On the same issue of CE supervisors and the pensions they are being denied, the one thing I will say to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, is not to state that her Department is not their employer. While it may not be their direct employer, it provides the funding for the agencies that do employ them. I want to make that point because I know...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding SOLAS courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17748/19]