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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: Perhaps the Minister will come back in later to set out how this would work in terms of officials lending support to other countries. My time is pressing on. Our status is one of island nation with a shared border. Clearly the UK is not opting into the EU migration pact. Therefore, there is obviously an issue for us to deal with that. How confident is the Minister in our capacity to deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: My question was not necessarily on deportations. I specified people who do not have right to remain.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a planning application by a school (details supplied) with Fingal County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18034/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the master plan for the new build for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18035/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is working on plans to enlarge a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18036/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18037/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work her Department has undertaken to assist the primary schools in Portmarnock, County Dublin, with oversubscriptions for 2024-25; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18038/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism class school places that will be available in Dublin Fingal East for the school year 2024-25; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18039/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 572. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has approached the Department of Justice to acquire Thornton Hall in north County Dublin to house international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18043/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: The Senator is answering her own questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: I wish to make a statement first. This is the migration and asylum pact, not the asylum pact. I wish to make that point clear, and it will become clear as to why now. We talk about sovereignty, which is an issue that has come up in the approximately 50 emails I received in recent weeks on this issue from people demanding a referendum. I agree with what was said; I do not agree that a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: That was not my point.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 20 March 2024, the reasons the relief on capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax for landowners who have leased their land for the production of solar energy was not extended to landowners who have leased their land for the production of wind energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Inflation Rate (10 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the progress in reducing inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15224/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (10 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the number of people who have claimed the renters tax credit, in 2023 and 2024 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15223/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (21 Mar 2024)

Alan Farrell: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the operational status of the Naval Service fleet, that is, its deployment readiness, staffing levels, the fitting out of recently acquired vessels from New Zealand; the details of the process for acquiring a multi-role vessel; the status of current recruitment plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13060/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (21 Mar 2024)

Alan Farrell: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the acquisition of battery and battery electric trains for Irish Rail; the likely delivery date for the first tranche of this order; the number within this tranche; the phases of delivery for later tranches and their operational date range; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13061/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (20 Mar 2024)

Alan Farrell: 272. To ask the Minister for Finance in a context where the Finance Act 2017 introduced relief on capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax for landowners who have leased their land for the production of solar energy where the area of the land on which the solar panels are installed does not exceed half the total area of the land concerned, the reason a similar relief was not provided to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Alan Farrell: 780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pay claim for citizens information staff was received by her Department from the Citizens Information Board in its budget proposals for 2024; if she will support the pay claim for current staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (20 Mar 2024)

Alan Farrell: 1510. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide a breakdown of the number of children waiting on a CAMHS appointment in CH08 and a breakdown for each county within that CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13067/24]