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Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: He is going to revert to the Deputy on that.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I ask the Taoiseach to be very brief.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: It will come out of the final slot.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Could we please keep to the responses to the questions asked?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Could we just go back to the topic please?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I am sure there is another forum in which the issue can be teased out. Let us move back to Taoiseach's Questions.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: We are running out of time.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Just so Members are aware, we have 24 minutes left overall for Taoiseach's Questions. We have already eaten into the time-----

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: Just so Members are aware, it will come out of time at the end. Does the Taoiseach want to conclude and to respond to the other questions?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (28 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider establishing a working group with a view to reviewing the existing arrangements for blue parking permits to ensure they are fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15088/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the operation of the croí cónaithe town fund scheme across the four Dublin local authorities, including by month and grant type that is, vacant or derelict; the number and value of applications received, accepted and rejected by each local authority in Dublin during the months July...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the operation of the tenant in-situ purchase scheme across the four Dublin local authorities, by month; the number of applications received, accepted and rejected by each local authority during the months April 2022 to February 2023; the funding available to each local authority in Dublin under...

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to examine the issue of safe staffing levels in Irish hospitals, which are fundamental to delivering safe health services to the highest standards. It is important to acknowledge the programme for Government, which commits to the large-scale expansion of the health and social care workforce. This expansion has been significantly accelerated since the beginning of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I apologise for the delay in starting. The Chair is on his way and will be with us shortly. Members are joining online, as well as physically here in the committee room. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the Climate Action Plan 2023. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and his officials to the committee room. I remind members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Minister for those opening remarks. We are going to move to questions, and Deputy Richard Bruton is first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Deputy Bruton. He could feel the glare, could he?

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms O'Reilly for engaging with the committee again. It is great to have her before us again. I thank her for her opening statement, on which I will first ask some questions. Ms O'Reilly spoke about the types of queries and complaints that her office deals with, including fundamental rights by EU agencies involved in asylum and migrant issues; revolving doors, which I heard her...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I note that in 2021 the European Ombudsman's office opened 338 inquiries investigating complaints. Ms O'Reilly referred to her office's own-initiative investigations in matters of public interest. Does that extend to Qatargate? I am sure there are many own-initiative investigations in the European Ombudsman's office? Some will arise from complaints, I presume, and then others will be...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I was taken by Ms O'Reilly's remarks on the transparency of environmental decision-making. She said her office is receiving an increasing number of complaints in this area each year. Based on a figure of 338 complaints made in 2021, when Ms O'Reilly says the number is increasing, by how much is it increasing each year? To what breadth of complaints does this extend?

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the European Ombudsman and that will be helpful. Following on from that, Ms O'Reilly launched the public consultation and I am aware that her office is still analysing that. Is she at liberty to tell us the volume of respondents that her office had to that public consultation?