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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: Less than that if the legal matter is sorted.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 56. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the application of PGI status for boxty. [36483/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: Once again, I am asking for an update on the application for protected geographical indication, PGI, status for boxty. I put down this same question several times every single year throughout the lifetime of this Dáil. The original application was submitted to the Minister's Department ten years ago. We keep getting the same responses, which are a long explanation of what PGI status...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. I am pleased to hear that, but to be honest with him, I am looking at various responses he has provided to me over the years. I will go back 12 months. The final sentence in his response to my question on this was: My Department's scrutiny is almost complete. Once my Department is satisfied that the application is ready [it] can move to the next stage which is the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (26 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will commit to an increase in ANC supports. [36484/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if urgent consideration will be given to increasing the household benefits package, which has not been increased since 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38339/24]

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this motion on eliminating the means test for family carers. It echoes part of the motion I tabled on supporting family carers. While there are many ways in which family carers need to be supported, eliminating the means test for the carer's allowance is one of my two top priorities alongside the provision of adequate respite care for family carers....

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yesterday, I listened to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, speaking about this issue. He informed us that the cost would be between €600 million and €2 billion. That is off the charts; it is nothing like that.

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Minister should be better informed.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has costed a publicly delivered childcare model in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38088/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: Ballynacarrow is a village on the N17 in County Sligo that immediately needs traffic-calming measures, yet nothing is happening. In 2024, Sligo County Council allocated €264,000 to safety improvement works for the entire county. That is a great deal less than the cost of the bicycle shed out the front of this building. While there is no traffic calming in Ballynacarrow, Sligo County...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: I had two separate questions.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (24 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the rural social scheme/Tús top-up to at least €12, to keep pace with other social welfare payments. [36468/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Swimming Pools (19 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider fast-tracking funding for the building of a 50-metre swimming pool in Sligo given there is no 50-metre pool in the north west. [36482/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide school transport for a number of students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37136/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans in place to ensure a proportionate number of houses are built in the regions in order to achieve the Government's National Planning Framework numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37086/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an ACRES payment will issue for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37141/24]

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. The only addition I would make to it is to emphasise the need to ensure that parents can access childcare. Just today the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation was in Buswells. One of the issues it raised with me was childcare. While costs are less than previously, its members have huge difficulty in accessing childcare. One of the...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: My time is short so I wish to emphasise the critical importance of tax justice nationally and internationally and how Ireland must play a full proactive role in ensuring social solidarity in the global tax regime. Knowing how political the Commission can be, I was initially concerned about what we would call competence creep but the ECJ has backed the Commission and we have to learn lessons...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: I welcome the Taoiseach and all colleagues back. I want to raise the with the Taoiseach what is known as the Sligo cancer bus, which brings patients from Sligo-Leitrim and parts of County Donegal to the centre of excellence in Galway for treatment. There are two issues. First, the bus has no toilet facilities and is not wheelchair accessible. It is unacceptable for sick patients to have...