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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, that are in place to reduce the current 13.5% VAT rate to the beauty industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50114/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (11 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 278. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50146/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (11 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist has not been assigned to a school (details supplied); and if this matter will be rectified as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49628/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to make funding available to fund a training programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49629/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application for school transport for a number of pupils (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50153/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (6 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if provision for electricity credits will be made for voluntary organisations (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49254/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (6 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the statistics on vehicles (details supplied) from May to August 2022 inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49158/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider making available financial assistance to families to assist with extra food costs for those suffering food allergies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider an extension to child benefit payments for parents who continue to have children in education after the age of 18 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49255/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (6 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering increasing the minimum age to purchase cigarettes to 21 years following the publication of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49256/22]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I am pleased to support the motion to make public transport free and accessible. It is certainly ambitious but I believe its time has come. The Minister of State said we cannot afford it and suggested it does not work as well as they thought it might elsewhere. The argument of not being able to afford something is not a good argument if the objective is positive. I will come back to that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: Yesterday, Monday, 3 October, dermatology clinics were cancelled at Sligo University Hospital, SUH. A letter was sent on 22 September by Dr. McKenna, the consultant dermatologist at SUH, to healthcare providers telling them the clinics would be cancelled. The reason we have got to this point is more than 3,500 new patients are waiting for their first appointment and there are 100 new...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I raised it already

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: Perhaps raising it here matters.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I will be honest with the Minister. Perhaps it is my naivety but I really thought when I came in here this evening he would be able to say there was a package in place and that it was agreed. I cannot remember exactly the wording the Minister used the last time I raised this issue on the floor of the House but I think the phrase "in due course" was used before. That could have been six or...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I am glad to see the Minister here this evening because the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, who is leaving the Chamber, the Minister and I have discussed this on a number of occasions. I very much hope that tonight we can finally get confirmation of the promise the Minister made when he visited Drumkeeran last November. He met farmers, stakeholders, landowners and local politicians etc....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank everybody for their presentations. In a way I feel I have a foot in both camps as I was a teacher for a number of years. I agree with our guests that schools are very busy places. We all like to think sometimes that our lives are the busy ones, and indeed they are, but lots of others have busy lives too. The truth is when teachers get to their summer holidays they are looking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: Do Mr. Clerkin’s colleagues in the unions agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: What one can do-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: This is in the context of a system if it is not working. By the way, I do not see this as a failure of teachers but of a system that does not work. If the system is not working, then, perhaps, is it not time to look beyond that? That is very much the question.