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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 579. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently seek a review concerning the level of funding for youth services such as Waterford and South Tipperary Community Youth Service in Budget 2023 (details supplied); the measures that are being taken to alleviate the financial difficulties and obstacles that youth service organisations are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting on radiation therapy since January 2022 until the end of September 2022, by county and radiotherapy centre in tabular form; if he is satisfied that there are enough radiation therapists working in the HSE to carry out radiation therapy treatment to those on waiting lists; the measures that are being taken to alleviate the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 878. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the environmental report grant as set out in circular 13/2022 will be payable on afforestation files planted in 2023 and payable in 2023 or afterwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51813/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with the environmental report grant as set out in circular 13/2022, if the “report from an external ecologist” must be an NIS or does a habitat survey or ecology survey qualify for the environmental report grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51814/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: I attended a briefing on the recently published Deloitte report commissioned by University Hospital Limerick, UHL. Deloitte fulfilled the task it was given. It set out figures and predictions on patient flow and the requirement for 300 new and replacement beds up to 2036. I wholeheartedly welcome today's event, with the turning of the sod for a new 96-bed block in Limerick. This is long...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: I thank the Tánaiste. At present, 58,000 people in the mid-west region are on waiting lists. UHL does not have the capacity or capability to complete these assessments. The option to upgrade and increase the services provided at Nenagh and Ennis hospitals is an obvious way to ease this pressure. I wish to acknowledge, in this House, and compliment the management and staff at Nenagh...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an applications for assistive technology for a child (details supplied) which was submitted by the child's school will be reviewed and a decision issued on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50488/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: On the final point made there by the Senator, what is the position with South Africa? I have had many inquiries and industries are short of drivers. There are drivers available in the country from South Africa but they cannot go on the road. What is the issue with the South African drivers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: The time factor in this instance is significant, from the moment the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is notified, the paperwork involved, when the drivers arrive here, and then to get the exchange done. This is taking inordinate time with the result that many employers in Ireland have been discouraged from taking on South Africans. The issue is that they are available and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: Effectively, they are here at that stage and the employer has to pay them, but they are not productive. It is a costly exercise while they the wait is on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: I appreciate that. Like my colleagues, I also want to mention the fact that there is a problem in the car rental sector and car providers that must be examined. I will not rehash it, but previous speakers outlined the difficulties in the sector. I got a letter from one of those companies and I got a response from the RSA to it. The response from the RSA effectively said: this is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: It is obviously at the discretion of the garda involved and what I find is that it is not being equally applied. We have cases where people have not had an NCT test, through no fault of their own, and are getting penalty points and fines. I presume from what Mr. Waide says, that every garda has access to the database and he or she can see the status of an NCT applicant who is being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: Do they have information on the status of an individual?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: That is the point I am making.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: So it is not on the system. We hear reports and it comes up on our news reel that gardaí came across people with no NCT tests at a checkpoint. What I am asking is if the data system is up to date to the extent that the garda can put the number into his PULSE system and check in the RSA's system whether an application is pending and if the person is to be fined or to get three penalty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: It is important to do so. In response to my question it was said that a person can prove to a garda that he or she has submitted an application. That means a person must take the time to get their documentation and bring it to a Garda station, and a garda will use up time looking at that documentation. Gardaí can check whether a vehicle is taxed by simply putting in the registration...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: I do not consider poor tyres a minor matter. Tyre safety is a fundamentally important matter. How many repeat tests are caused by the discovery of, for example, a cracked tail light or something very small? If there is more flexibility with the testing system does it free up other slots for cars? In other words, does flexibility improve the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: That is a huge issue when 40% of capacity is taken up with retesting. There must be some way to educate the public and ensure that they arrive with a vehicle in the condition required to pass an NCT. Mr. Walsh has said that people undertake an NCT to get a free diagnosis and retest when the repairs have been made which is a scenario that chokes the system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: Please excuse my ignorance about lanes in NCT centres. So there are 49 NCT centres.