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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Lovely, I would appreciate that. I thank Ms Mangan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank all the speakers for coming in. We have seen significant progress in remote working over the past two years, helped in part by the pandemic. We have also seen the springing up of a large number of hubs across the country. We recently saw the opening of the co:worx hub in Edgeworthstown in County Longford. It is a wonderful initiative which is really going to help champion the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am not at the moment. I am dialling in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Chair.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the IDA commitment to deliver an advanced building solution in Longford town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18635/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I want to thank all of the speakers for coming here today. It has been very informative and helpful. I straddle two committees as well. I am also on the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, so I am familiar with many of the issues that the witnesses raised. It is good to see, particularly in terms of what Teagasc presented, farmers are not being vilified. Too often,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. I would be very impressed with the numbers. It is just under 2,900 and follow-up engagement is very strong at 95%. That probably speaks to the belief that this is very much a consultative approach and not a stick approach and that Teagasc is engaging proactively with farmers. Perhaps we need to make farmers more aware that the service is there. At the minute, it is reactive....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I have a final question. We will have to do the glass half full and the glass half empty. The half empty part is the non-implementation or not proceeding. We are establishing that it is one in three, which would be a cause for concern. Obviously, farming is very challenged at present, with the war in Ukraine, escalating fuel costs and so forth. Many of the rehabilitative works and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I appreciate Teagasc is not making any major announcements today, but what is the level of funding it believes is necessary to try to get this one third of farmers who are not engaging, whether they are not able to engage or not able to follow through?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Is that specifically going to farmers for rehabilitative works?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Mr. Meehan. It has been very helpful and informative.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I know the Ceann Comhairle has stepped out but I want to pay tribute to him for hosting President Zelenskyy earlier. He spoke passionately and emotively from the heart and he represented the views of the people of Ireland. I commend the Minister, who also spoke most eloquently. It was wonderful to hear him namecheck and quote some of the 21 previous speakers who had addressed the Houses....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank both speakers for their informative contributions. I will go to the Dogs Trust representatives on the issue of databases, which we have heard some evidence on heretofore. Could they recap the number of databases operating in the country? I accept that they operate to varying standards. I assume that the utopian solution would be a statutory database with any subsidiary databases...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: With regard to the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010, it is telling that only 50% of local authorities have made the register available and accessible to members of the public to view online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Sorry. I will come back on that one so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: It is regrettable that no representatives from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications are attending this session but they will, I hope, appear before the committee on this theme in the near future. The Acting Chairman might note that we have requested them to attend again. I am very excited by the circular economy, probably to my wife's consternation. I am an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: That is reassuring. There is a strong focus on the retrofitting of local authority houses and the SEAI deals with contractors daily. The anecdotal feedback we are getting suggests the average cost of the retrofitting of a local authority house is in the order of €7,000 above what the local authorities have been approved by the Department. Is the authority bringing pressure to bear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: In the brief time I have remaining, will Mr. Meally update us on the one-stop shops?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (31 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 42. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on community specialist teams for older persons. [16863/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (31 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional home support hours that are being provided in 2022 for persons living with dementia. [16862/22]