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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (19 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: That and the vacant property grant have been a seachange in terms of the way young couples in rural Ireland in particular look at older properties when a short number of years ago they were not being looked at all regarding the possibility of being renovated. Right across the north Cork and the Duhallow regions, the uptake has been hugely positive, it has brought stock back in, as have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (19 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the operation of the Croí Cónaithe scheme; the uptake of the scheme in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36749/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to help first-time house buyers; the impact of these over the past twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36748/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Business of Joint Committee (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We will commence the meeting in public session so that we have our business properly done. The Minister of State is on the way. She has left a meeting in Government Buildings and it will be a few minutes before she gets here. We will suspend the meeting until she and the other witnesses arrive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Coveney. Today's meeting is to consider aligning disability funding with the UNCRPD. On behalf of the committee, I warmly welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for disability, Deputy Anne Rabbitte. I also welcome the officials from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Margot Loughman, principal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State. I call Deputy Tully.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Junction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We are very tight on time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: To follow up on that, further to a letter from the committee about those grants that are under review, the Minister wrote a letter I will share with the committee over the next day or so. There is no need for the Minister of State to look at me so. There are a number of things. She said the section 39 organisations were paused in respect of the two sides coming together on it. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: -----care tested. The Minister of State might reflect on those issues, but alternative respite is something that should be championed in a major way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I take the point with regard to equine services and other services. Some of the service providers were able to access facilities heretofore whereby they were able to take families away for weekends or for two or three nights and build equine and other services around people. One of the service providers is developing a project whereby it has acquired extra land and wants to develop some of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State and the officials for their contributions. I thank them sincerely for being here with us today. The battle is ongoing and we wish the Minister of State the very best of luck when she takes on the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and the Department of Finance in the coming while. If she needs us to make any public...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on revised services on Bus Éireann route 243, covering Bweeng and Grenagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36006/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 640. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider changing the criteria for publicly funded IVF treatment, to allow couples with a child to avail of this service; the reasons for the criteria currently in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36007/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (9 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 81.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to alleviate and respond to concerns about battery energy storage systems and the long term safety and security of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34057/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (9 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 82.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to detail the monitoring and regulation of battery energy storage systems; who has ultimate responsibility for the safe management of these systems and if the appropriate equipment and facilities are available to deal with fires of this nature; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34058/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (9 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 83.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied that there is a robust safety framework and system of regulation in place for battery energy storage systems; if any action is being taken to address the concerns of residents living close to these projects, to provide reassurance about the safety of these projects; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (9 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 84.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if new electricity storage technologies are being considered as an alternative to lithium battery systems; if the potential for new technologies which may have less safety concerns will be given priority for future projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34060/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (9 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 89.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide details of the procedures in place to ensure the safe decommissioning of battery energy storage systems in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 873.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason landlords are obliged to provide the Residential Tenancies Board with a copy of a termination of tenancy notice, if the Residential Tenancies Board cannot adjudicate the validity of the notice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35598/24]