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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application from the Forgney community water connection previously known as group water scheme for a water connection to the Ballymahon public water system has been included in the Longford County Council bid under the new multi rural water programme 2022 to 2024 (details supplied). [37219/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the new fire station for Ballymahon, County Longford (details supplied) [37598/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide assurances that County Longford and other affected local authorities will be appropriately compensated as a result of the new local property tax brackets (details supplied). [37601/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the current €30,000 upper limit on the amount payable under the essential works grant scheme for the elderly will be reviewed upwardly; and if so, when this will occur given the current inflationary costs affecting construction. [37603/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans to revisit the new ten-year tenancy requirement before a tenancy can apply for the tenant purchase scheme and to reduce the wait time for the many households that felt that they could have been approved in 2022. [37604/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give an assurance that Longford County Council will be compensated in respect of the significant, unavoidable and unbudgeted over-spend for the housing retrofit scheme (details supplied). [37608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any consideration will be given to community employment scheme supervisors who retired prior to the 2008 reference year in order to allow them to receive the CE ex-gratia payment (details supplied). [37222/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I commend the Minister of State on her work to date and on the enthusiasm with which she meets the challenges relating to her very busy portfolio. Following on from Deputy Tully, the Minister of State will probably know what I am going to raise. I will be very parochial about it. The Minister of State has visited the children's disability network team in Longford. It is fair to say there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: What about the summer camp in Longford?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am conscious that the Minister of State is probably running out of time. On her visit to Longford, she was probably struck by the location of the CDNT in the old workhouse building. Probably the only meritorious thing we can say about the building is that it was once home to Padraic Colum, the poet, but aside from that, it is a terrible reflection on our commitment to people with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I welcome Mr. Harris. Like Deputy Tully, I commend his outstanding work and that of AsIAm. It is great have such a strong advocacy group which not only challenges us but will also help us inform what will be very important policy into the future. I have taken one key nugget from Mr. Harris's opening statement which is that we need to move from mere autism awareness to a system where we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I apologise for being a little late coming down from voting. I am not as nimble as some of my colleagues. I thank Ms Graham for such a succinct opening statement. As the Chair rightly said, we have gone through several of the pillars of planning. This pillar might have been the most difficult to digest or explain, but Ms Graham has set it out very succinctly and clearly. The key point I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: There is some concern with onshore wind farm protest groups, for want of a better description, who are motivated by the best will of their local community, that this is a backdoor effort to change the guidelines that are there to make it easier for onshore wind farms. Have Ms Graham seen anything done at either EU level or in making our guidelines more robust, that is changing the guidelines...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: We have a set-back distance for wind farms in Ireland. Has Ms Graham seen anything to suggest that there will be a change coming from European regarding that?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Balance (7 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his Department’s strategy to encourage more female participation in science, technology, engineering and maths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36763/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the take up of the apprenticeship incentivisation scheme by sector and county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36762/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (7 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline commitments under Ireland’s National Action Plan for the EU Child Guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36705/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (6 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will retrieve the tracking numbers in respect of the passport applications of two children (details supplied). [36544/22]