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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Agriculture Schemes (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will fully honour the commitments made in the Programme for Government - Our Shared Future to ring-fence €1.5 billion of carbon tax receipts over the next ten years for agri-environment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44089/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 326. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support the request from an organisation (details supplied) for funding support to enable its vital work of providing financial assistance directly to parents of children with life-limiting or chronic complex care needs across Ireland to help with the non-medical expenses related to caring for their child; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware whether there have been any prosecutions brought between 2019 to date in 2023 of an entry way to a premises being blocked by participants involved in a public pro-life assembly; if so, to provide details on such events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43680/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide €90 million in funding for TAMS in 2024 to keep it in line with current levels of inflation costing which must be updated before the opening of each tranche; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44032/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include grant-aid for dribble bars, rubber mats and quad gates under TAMS in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44033/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support a proposal that a young farmer capital investment scheme and the women capital investment scheme needs to be established (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44034/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he accepts that there is a need for a significant upward revision of TAMS 3 for the pig sector to facilitate the significant investment required at farm level and consideration of funding this through a separate mechanism to TAMS 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44035/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 436. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support the request from an organisation (details supplied) for funding support to enable its vital work of providing financial assistance directly to parents of children with life-limiting or chronic complex care needs across Ireland to help with the non-medical expenses related to caring for their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 479. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the decision by the Health Secretary in the UK to implement a single sex policy in NHS hospitals meaning that transgender women who were born biological males will no longer have access to female-only wards; if he will support such a policy here for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43553/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 513. To ask the Minister for Health how much territory, in metres, in Táilte Éireann or any other relevant body which has informed the Government's introduction of exclusion zone legislation, it is estimated will be covered by prospective abortion exclusion zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43678/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 526. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the request from an organisation (details supplied) for funding support to enable its vital work of providing financial assistance directly to parents of children with life-limiting or chronic complex care needs across Ireland to help with the non-medical expenses related to caring for their child; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Courts Service (5 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department had any engagements with or made submissions to the Department of Justice with respect to the establishment of the new planning and environment division of the High Court; if he will share any submission made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43313/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reinstate the VAT equalisation measure for rental cars in budget 2024 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43341/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (5 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the employment policy of the Civil Service supports the implementation of gender quotas when hiring new staff; if so, the steps that have been taken to implement such a policy from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (5 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with an organisation (details supplied), specifically regarding the need to draw up and implement a national plan for the support and management of exceptionally able children in the Irish education system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43334/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Courts Service (5 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department had any engagements with or made submissions to the Department of Justice with respect to the establishment of the new planning and environment division of the High Court; if he will share any submission made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43314/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding allocation that will be made available to facilitate the operation of the proposed statutory agency with a dedicated focus on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; the number of staff she anticipates the agency will employ; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43316/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the reason recruitment for new genomic resource associate roles at the department of clinical genetics at CHI Crumlin, as specified as part of implementation of the national genetics and genomics strategy, is being held up, in spite of the fact that €2.7 million was allocated to implementation of the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (5 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the policy of his Department to support measures designed to ensure that the number of termination of pregnancies can be reduced year on year; the practical supports he is putting in place to ensure that the number of termination of pregnancies does not continue to grow year on year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43211/23]

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the debate on this vitally important issue of sexual offences and human trafficking. This is an issue that needs much more attention and, of course, in Ireland we do need tougher laws and tougher sentencing, and we need it urgently. Two years ago, I and my colleagues in the all-party Oireachtas life and dignity group organised a briefing on countering human trafficking in Ireland...