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VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The hospitality sector in Clare has been speaking and highlighting its struggles for the past number of months now. I pay tribute to Maurice Walsh and Michael Vaughan for doing exactly that. They have said that they are facing an Armageddon this winter if the Government does not respond to their loud pleas. We know that Shannon Airport has been doing fantastic and its passenger numbers are...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I ask the Minister of State to bear with me as I try to do this very fast. Out of desperation for progress, I commend the decision of acceding to the optional protocol. I commend Clare Leader Forum and the many groups and individuals in County Clare who continue to highlight the necessity of the ratification. However, I am still nervous about the timing and need clarification. I read that...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: As I do frequently in the House I want to use this opportunity to raise the need to abolish the means test for carers. I also acknowledge frequently that the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is the first Minister in so many years to make progressive changes to the means test for carers. On the most recent occasion I raised this with the Minister there was a discussion around the massive...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I have for weeks now been talking about the increases in the worrying and concerning culture that exists in this House. There is a notion that we can throw away the people's money, for example, as if we do not absolutely need it in important areas such as housing, health, childcare, disability and basically ensuring that people have access to the very least or the basics of essential...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will invoke action 17 of the current energy policy in the Climate Action Plan and enact a policy to ban liquefied natural gas terminals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41443/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Government's position and policy in respect of liquefied natural gas (LNG) proposals, and the remarks of a judge (details supplied) about not being convinced that the Government has a clear policy against LNG terminals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41442/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Cathaoirleach for giving me the opportunity to address the witnesses. I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. I want to refer to a few points that have already been made. The Minister began by referring to the additional bed capacity required for the mid-west region. He pointed to the fact that the mid-west has the lowest number of beds per population among the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Okay. Maybe they can come back. I will finish on the point that 2028 was the timeline I was given for the second 96-bed block; today the Minister has said 2027. I would like to stick with his timeline rather than the one I have received through a parliamentary question response. Will he explain why the dates keep changing? When will the 48 additional beds for Ennis be delivered? At a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: That would be great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Will the Minister send me on a note, then, about the nuances he said HIQA will be able to flesh out in its-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: That would be great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I got that in a parliamentary question response from the HSE. It was not just the INMO that pointed to that number.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I raise a local GP issue that we have in County Clare. A local GP, who is a naturalised Irish citizen, applied in January for a visa for his mother to come to visit him. He was told in March that he needed more paperwork to prove his relationship and to show that she did not intend to overstay. All of that information was provided in April. The visa office recently advised that it is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The Minister of State outlined quite a bit of information there. However, I was hoping to get an expected timeline for the second phase of the town centre first programme for towns such as Kilrush in County Clare. Specifically on Kilrush, Pobal did its deprivation report there last year which pointed to Kilrush being the most severely deprived settlement in County Clare. It is the only...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Minister of State for that information. I welcome any kind of engagement on where the €30,000 is going. I know there was consultation in respect of the old Mars Cinema building in Kilrush. I was delighted to see that was open for all the community to come along and have their say. I have been contacted by a number of business owners in the Kilrush town area. They...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 75. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expected timeline for the second phase of the town centre first programme for towns such as Kilrush, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40647/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 10 of 27 June 2024, if he will respond to the revelations from a news publication (details supplied) that the Israeli military is in fact using Irish airspace to transport weapons to Palestine; if he or his Department have any plans to act for the people of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Legislative Measures (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department supports the enactment of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40646/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate that information and background. With that in mind, I hope the Minister of State will be able to help me help Alex. She has outlined all the Department is doing with the redesign, but Alex does not have time for that redesign to go through its process and then deliver for Alex. I do not want to see Alex spend one more day in this kind of situation. It is quite dangerous in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Yes. We have another name for the child that is not the actual name, if that is okay.