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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of children (details supplied) who have no school transport will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61542/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 602 of 8 November 2022, when school transport will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the unemployment figures for County Clare including a comparison with the figures nationally; the actions he will take to further create jobs in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60455/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (6 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will reply to a letter from persons (details supplied) considering matters within his ministerial remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60271/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (6 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (6 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if respite services have been discontinued temporarily at Ennistymon Community Hospital, County Clare; if so, the plans that are in place to have the services fully restored given that the respite and short stay beds provide a lifeline for families and their loved ones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60409/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: 601. To ask the Minister for Health if a nursing registration PIN can be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60462/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: 722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figures for fish landed into all the local authority harbours in County Clare in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60456/22]

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: I join my colleagues in welcoming President von der Leyen in the building in which we have sat for the past 100 years, each year of which has been as a neutral state. The Taoiseach is correct that we have been proud Europeans for 50 years. We have been proud Europeans for much longer than 50 years. It is worth recalling that our initial attempt at accession was blocked as part of the power...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: I join my colleagues in welcoming President von der Leyen in the building in which we have sat for the past 100 years, each year of which has been as a neutral state. The Taoiseach is correct that we have been proud Europeans for 50 years. We have been proud Europeans for much longer than 50 years. It is worth recalling that our initial attempt at accession was blocked as part of the power...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: On that issue, the Taoiseach's response to the cost overruns at the national children's hospital is to provide the hospital and then we will argue about the cost of it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: In any event, it is in marked contrast to the provision of services for children with disabilities. This week I was approached by the parents of a young man who is doing his leaving certificate this year. He is a high academic achiever but he is going nowhere because he can go nowhere without supports. In 2020 he was assessed and none of the interventions that was recommended has been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: A huge one.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: I will.

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Ó Ríordáin and my erstwhile colleagues in the Labour Party for bringing forward a motion that, refreshingly for me, I can agree with so wholeheartedly. That is with one possible reservation, which is the reference to a citizens' assembly. It seems that there is an unusual degree of agreement in this Chamber. I understand that the Government is not bringing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to increase payment of the remote area grant towards the cost of private transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59605/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: I have listened carefully to the debate. There is a slight contradiction in some of what has been said. It has been stressed repeatedly that for Shannon and Cork airports to grow, they need to be cheaper than Dublin Airport, or at least as cheap. Mr. Wilson said people want to get in and out of airports quickly. There was a marked contrast between Shannon and Dublin airports this summer....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: On accommodation costs, people go to different parts of the country and are affected by costs. A large proportion of the hotel beds in Clare are not available to tourists at present. It has to be a Government priority to provide alternative accommodation for the people who, through no fault of their own, are in those beds now. If that does not happen and there is a shortage of hotel beds,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: What about accommodation costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: Driving Airbnb out of the market is mooted by some as a solution. It might provide more accommodation for Ryanair's staff but less for its customers. Does Mr. O'Leary have any thoughts on that?