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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: Is it something the local authority would support if the Department of Education came knocking?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: Okay, that is good to hear. I thank Ms Corcoran Are there clubs in the city council area at the moment?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: That is also my experience. Regarding Traveller-specific accommodation, can I get a comment from both witnesses as to what the challenges are? What are they doing in that respect?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: 37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the current situation with respect to proposals to develop transport projects in east Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4452/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the OWDT has been issued with the Minimum Irish Port Capacity Report; if so, to outline the main findings of the report and actions arising as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3350/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the efforts being made by his Department to engage with insurance providers on the cost of motor insurance premiums; the insights provided by the National Claims Information Database Report on Private Motor Insurance published in December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4591/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the situation with respect to community groups and festival committees acquiring insurance for the staging of local community events; if he is satisfied with the work of the Office to Promote Competition in the Insurance Market to make insurance available for such events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: 240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the proposed pension increases for former employees of semi-State companies that are currently awaiting Government approval; if he will provide further details in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4695/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with reference to the compulsory purchase order activation programme which his Department launched in April 2023, the targets that have been set for each local authority for the number of identified vacant and derelict properties to enter the programme; the number of such properties in each local authority that have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims lodged with her Department from County Cork households under the humanitarian assistance scheme following the damage caused to households by Storm Babet in October 2023; the number of claims that have been processed to date; the number of these claims allowed; the total amount paid out to date; and if...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I thank them for the briefing and for the work they are doing. I also want to join with the Minister in acknowledging the work the Defence Forces and Civil Defence did during the flooding in my part of the country when they came down and helped out with sand bags and took people in boats out of houses and all that kind of stuff. As the Minister...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: Yes, exactly.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: Yes, well, the Minister's own-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: I got a letter-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: Exactly.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: I got a letter from the Minister on it last May and it was ongoing at that stage, so I am wondering whether it is maybe-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: Okay. The other issue I have been raising consistently is that of psychometric testing and recruitment. I understand that the Minister asked that it not happen in the Naval Service-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: -----and it is ongoing. Are there numbers with respect to how many people fail the psychometric tests in the Permanent Defence Force, PDF, and the Army, in particular, and has that had any impact in recruitment into the Naval Service? It was a fence that many people could not jump over and they failed at that time. The other thing I am interested in is how many people would have failed...