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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (17 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: 478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on proposed works to reopen a premises (details supplied); the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56447/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: 591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 30 November 2023, if her Department has published its new set of enrolment projections for primary and post-primary schools; if not, when she expects these projections to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1040/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Risk Management (17 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: 732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support plans by Cork County Council to put in place flood mitigation measures in Castlemartyr in east Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56395/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (17 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: 821. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 1 December 2022, if an inter-departmental group has been formed to evaluate Ireland's possible participation in the Antarctic Treaty System; if so, the number of meetings that the group has held since its formation; the dates of these meetings; if the group has presented its report...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (17 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: 1145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the definition of "affinity" as listed by her Department as a means of Irish association for naturalisation applicants; the number of applications received under such an association each respective year from 2019 to 2023 inclusive; the number of those applications that were successful over the same period; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (17 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: 1076. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of labour market access permission applications received by her Department from international protection applicants in each respective year from 2018 to 2023, inclusive; the number of applications granted in this period; the number of applications currently outstanding; the current estimated processing time for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: 1269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the number of complementary income support for young farmers applications his Department received in 2023; the number of applications approved and payments made to date; the number that remain to be processed; when he expects the remaining application payments to be approved and paid; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (17 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: 1810. To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, to establish a social prescribing service in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2042/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, for being here to debate it with me. It is eight weeks yesterday since the awful devastation occurred in my town, Midleton, where shops and homes were badly damaged. Floods, the like of which were never seen before in the region, caused devastation. This evening in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I understand that the Minister of State is only standing in for the Minister and that he did not write this reply. He probably has nothing to do with it and he is only reading out the script, as I have done myself on many occasions when I was in that position. It is disappointing that there is not an indication on how much has been requested by the council. Perhaps the Minister of State...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Sector (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. I welcome the setting up of this forum because a certain amount of information needs to be given to farmers and others who are concerned about it. Would the Minister agree that, if the ratings are reduced, this would result in fewer high-quality exports, fewer animals hitting local marts every week and fewer top-quality animals going to factories,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Sector (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response to the debate. Has any research been done on the possible loss to farmers as a result of these changes? Has that been quantified in any way? There is also an issue in that many farmers are uneasy that constantly selecting for easy calving will lead to cows with poor calving ability due to the smaller pelvic area. That is another concern that the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Sector (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the recent publication of the new bull replacement and terminal index ratings by an organisation (details supplied); the potential impact this could have on beef suckler farms and the suckler carbon efficiency programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55528/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Sector (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: This question offers the Minister an opportunity to give us his views on the recent publication of the new bull replacement and terminal index ratings and the potential impact this might have on bull sucker farms and the suckler carbon efficiency programme, and to make a statement on the matter.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I will be brief because a lot of ground has been covered. I agree with Deputy Ó Cuív, and as I said here last week, we have got to approach this in two ways. There is the immediate and what we can do now but then there is the longer-term stuff. If we focus on the long-term stuff we will still be here in five years' time. A lot of progress has been made with education and we got...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I want to make just one other point and then, unfortunately, I must run. Deputy Ó Cuív is right. He has been talking about the planning legislation before the Houses at the moment, and using it as a vehicle to make changes. He is also right, as I said myself last week, about the proposal to establish a national independent Traveller accommodation agency. It will have to be set...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: There is an opportunity to do it now. It will need primary legislation anyway and we have a vehicle that we could use that is going through right now. There may be other barriers and reasons it cannot and should not happen that I do not know about at this stage but there is an opportunity to bring it into the conversation and to bring it into the legislation, which is at a pretty early...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: It could set in train a mechanism to establish this agency pretty quickly, rather than waiting until we go through everything else. That is just a thought. Unfortunately, I need to go. I wish everyone a happy Christmas.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: 52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he is supporting Coillte in its new Forestry Strategy and Strategic Vision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55638/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he is supporting youth clubs and youth services nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55806/23]