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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: The advice I got, as recently as last Friday, was that the local authority would have to liaise with the Department. I outlined the reasons and went back to the appeals body within the local authority. We had been given every encouragement, as an awful lot of people with disabilities are, to go on the housing list, because that is a mechanism for the service provider to access capital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I will. That case is fundamental to a lot of what we do at the committee and many of the recommendations we made in the report in respect of ensuring independent living. The other issue raised by our Vice Chairperson was that of decongregation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: The policy of new beginnings and all of that has been well documented. It has been in place for a decade or more. There are huge challenges, however, for approved housing bodies, which are sometimes the service providers. When they look for accommodation or money for accommodation, there are challenges along the way, including HIQA reports, and all the other documentation the statutory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I will make one other point. The disabled person's grant-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: The standard disabled person's grant-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: For a private house. To categorise it, for a stairlift in that house. It is the disabled person's grant. It is the grant for the person with a disability. On the comments I made, if somebody with a disability due to a stroke or car accident moves in with a son or daughter or whatever, and the income of the son or daughter is way over the limit, the next thing is they cannot accommodate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State. I also thank Mr. O'Sullivan and Ms Naughton for their indulgence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State, Ms Naughton and Mr. O'Sullivan for their indulgence, our members for their help and commitment, and the team for all the work they do behind the scenes. We will have a private meeting at 5 p.m. next Wednesday. Our next public meeting will be on Monday, 8 April at 11 a.m. in the Seanad Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: The exact reason was because the person was said to not have rented privately for six months or longer and also that no details were submitted to outline the supports that would allow the person to live independently. A social worker's report was provided by the service providers in the application but what was written in the correspondence was that the person had not rented privately for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Correct.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to upgrade the grid in order that the limits for peak export from single-phase connections and three-phase connections can be increased. [12821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on plans to draft legislation to restore the supplementary pension to post-2012 gardaí and other uniformed members of the Fast Accrual grades of the Public Service Single Pension Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11640/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 344. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail the number of work permit applications received by country of origin over the past four years; the number of rejected applications per country; the reason for those rejections; and the number of spouses/dependents of successful applicants per country of origin also granted residence. [13293/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 1035. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will consider a scheme to support more wind powered microgeneration on farms. [12822/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 1036. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is investigating the use of new technology which has been developed for energy storage capacity on farms.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12823/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the consequences for all of Europe if Russia is allowed to prevail in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10846/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how Ireland is working with the EU partners to stop battlefield goods and technology reaching Russia and to combat the circumvention of sanctions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10847/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department is investigating the use of new technology which has been developed for energy storage capacity on farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10858/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 on 27 February 2024, and the reply given, if he could provide in tabular form a county breakdown of the 333, 309 taxpayer units that had made rent tax credit claims as of 22 February 2024. [11456/24]