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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I will be quick, as I am conscious that the Minister needs to go. We have discussed modular builds a number of times. Could the Department set targets for local authorities to build modular builds, be they timber-framed, steel or other builds? There are great examples with the Ukrainian crisis. I have been in two-bedroom modular builds that were built for €80,000, excluding site...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion (24 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am not on the committee but my background is in regional press. I spent all of my working life before I came into politics in the regional press. I would have crossed paths with Seamus Dooley many moons ago when he was in the latter years of his career on the Roscommon Champion, and we spent a night in a pub in Roscommon, although we did not actually work together. I worked with Linda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming in. I commend them on their work in this area. Like most people from rural Ireland I am an enthusiastic supporter of horse racing. I greatly value its role in Ireland and it is important that it be funded. We have a unique relationship with the horse in Ireland. Nothing epitomised that more recently than Shark Hanlon's success in the US...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Will the Minister consider a contemporary value-for-money report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses for attending. Notwithstanding the fact that Deputy Fitzmaurice has rightly voiced concerns regarding the sensitive areas, it is rare that we get EU regulations that most people support and can see the value in. It is a notable occasion. GI is an important issue. The Department has to be commended on the work it has done on it. Equally, we have to acknowledge the...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I congratulate the Minister on a very progressive budget. It epitomises her view and approach to politics and society generally. The Minister has done Herculean work in the Department over the past two plus years and that is reflected in this budget. However, there are a couple of issues I will pick up on. One of them is the exclusion of the recipients of the disablement benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Priorities (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when it is intended to advertise and appoint a person to the recently announced role of night-time advisor for County Longford. [57292/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the income thresholds for County Longford will be revised upwards. [57405/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an issue in relation to salary payments will be clarified and resolved as in the case of a person (details supplied). [57431/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 600. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of staff in CHO8 who are still awaiting their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000. [57425/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 601. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that staff in the registry office in Longford are still awaiting their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000 given that their peers in other offices have received the payment. [57426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the departments and services within the CHO8 that are still awaiting their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000. [57427/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if the section 39 staff at St Christopher’s, Longford, will receive their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000 prior to Christmas (details supplied). [57428/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 604. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that staff employed in the vaccination centre at Newtownforbes, County Longford, are still awaiting their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000. [57429/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 774. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any intending recipient of the forgotten farmers scheme will need to meet all six qualifying points of the scheme; and if not, if it will be a case of qualifying on some of the points. [57273/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the requirement for a level 6 qualification for the forgotten farmers scheme will have to be in agriculture; and if not, if, for example a young farmer who has a level six in carpentry will qualify. [57274/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Apologies. I was listening in. I was sidetracked by other things. It is great to see the initiatives that the organisations represented are taking. It is great to see them here and it is useful to hear the shortcomings that they see in the system. Up to now, we have been focused on the area of supporting children and young people in primary and secondary school but autism is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I know we have touched a great deal on the question of summer provision but I believe there is capacity there if we could get more third level students involved in summer provision. The greatest way to come to terms with autism is to make it part of mainstream life where people come face-to-face with it. Many of the people in the room are fortunate in that they have relatives or family who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: It is good to have the Aire here. To echo my constituency colleague, I commend the Minister on the work he has done in this area. I look forward to hearing the exchanges today. I will have a number of questions for him and I will come back to him with those.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to take into consideration the timing of Leaving Certificate exam result rechecks to happen prior to college course offers. [56806/22]