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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the outcome of the work of the Banking Forum to date; if specific consideration is being given to the need to ensure that large parts of rural Ireland are not deprived of banking services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63114/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that there will be a substantial financial allocation for the 2023 housing voids programme in view of its success since 2020 and the value of such works in bringing back to habitable use unoccupied homes; if he will ensure that additional support is given to local authorities, such as those in County Cavan,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for replacing the higher diploma in education in 2014 with a two-year master's degree in education; if any review of this programme has been undertaken in the meantime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62859/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62860/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if pupils who are enrolled in a school after 30 September will be included in enrolment numbers of that school for capitation purposes in cases in which it is clear that such pupils were not enrolled in any other school in this State at the end of September; if this matter will be given further consideration in view of the increased movement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when appeals submitted to the Independent Appeals Scrutineers which had to be submitted by 21 October 2022 in respect of students who sat the Leaving Certificate 2022 will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63022/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional third level places will be provided for all therapy courses, in view of the difficulties in recruiting therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cross-Border Co-operation (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives that will be undertaken to promote student mobility North-South and South-North; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 9 November 2022, if there has been any further progress in the consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63119/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the additional financial supports that will be provided for small-scale nursing home providers in view of the substantial additional costs incurred recently by such providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63018/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that adequate financial support is provided for small-scale nursing home providers given that a number of such providers have closed over recent months and it is essential that private nursing home care is not provided solely by large-scale operators, which would result in some rural communities losing such important health care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 336. To ask the Minister for Health when additional health care places will be provided to an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63020/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives that will be undertaken within a health care programme in 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63050/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that are available to farmers to install solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62855/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who had to cease willow production will receive compensation payments under the Just Transition Programme due to the substantial costs that they have incurred in exiting such production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63015/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to date in eliminating the delays in processing applications for forestry planting and felling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63101/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of funding provided for forestry research to date in 2022; the estimated level of funding to be provided for such work in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63102/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: 403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to date in preparing data on the sequestration of carbon by hedgerows to ensure the inclusion of hedgerows in the national inventory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63106/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Cathaoirleach and like other colleagues I welcome Mr. Adams back to the Oireachtas. In his opening remarks he referred to the Sunningdale Agreement of December 1973, the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 and the Downing Street Declaration, and we might recall that the Downing Street Declaration was signed on this day 29 years ago between the late Mr. Albert Reynolds and Mr. John...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Brendan Smith: I said it was an important stepping stone to the Good Friday Agreement.