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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. With regard to the local authority home loan, Senator Moynihan said we might have been too quick in the past to sell off some of our housing stock. With the changing of the rules, a few people have been caught in that they had a semi-successful application under the tenant purchase scheme only for the new ten-year rule to come in. Do the delegates, as those who probably were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: That is grand. I may send Mr. Baneham the details. Ms Feeney is in the firing line for my next question. When I was coming in, I heard her referring to the repair-and-lease scheme. I was delighted to hear there is some upward movement regarding the valuation. While a local authority currently gives a grant of €6,500 for a drop-level shower, we are offering only €60,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: If one were putting nine apartments into a former one-off house or pub, for example, would one be looking at multiples of €60,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. An exceptional answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Ms Feeney. I will now proceed to my monologue. Like Deputy O'Donoghue, I hope the delegates can give me some comfort with their responses. I hope that whoever is answering my next question has a mother or mother-in-law from Longford. Probably only 11 counties are being actively encouraged to come forward with an affordable housing scheme. In Longford, we have not built a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: If an approved housing body proposed an affordable housing scheme for an area that is not technically designated, would it be possible to consider it at present? Would it have to be kicked back to the Department to obtain permission to proceed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: That is grand. What is the timeline?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the supports provided under the Summer Programme for 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13501/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am sharing time with Deputy Carroll MacNeill. As many colleagues have said, we live in unprecedented and uncertain times. A friend of Europe and of Ireland has been invaded, the victim of a barbaric act and a barbaric dictator who has brought wanton and untold carnage on that country. Over the past number of days, we have seen a massive outpouring of humanitarian support and aid for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: A concern among the public, which Dr. Doyle Prestwich referenced, has to do with the sovereignty and integrity of food production and the domination of this area by four multinationals. Should we have done more as a country, ideally through Teagasc, research and our universities, to take a greater role and put more investment into it? Academics will always say that we should have given them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I was struck by Dr. Harrison's work on cystic fibrosis, CF, and his references to the progress that had been made over the past ten years or so in the treatment of CF patients. Is it fair to say that we have evolved and come a long way in terms of licensing and producing new drugs and modified treatments for human health but we are probably light years behind in terms of licensing the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Dr. Harrison.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses for attending. Their contributions have been informative. This discussion is probably much more highbrow than what we are used to, but it is good to have it. What is happening in Ukraine has put a focus on food sovereignty. Covid has been mentioned. There is probably no more pertinent a week for the witnesses to appear before us on this issue. Teagasc will be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the staffing and funding allocated to the new national apprenticeship office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12775/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: The programme for Government made a number of key commitments to look at new ways of structuring funding for and promoting apprenticeships. It recognised that we have to encourage better and wider take-up and target skills to meet the needs of our economy. A plan to deliver this is the Action Plan for Apprenticeship, which has shown the intent to create a modern apprenticeship system that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I agree with the Minister that we have seen good and much-needed progress lately in the form of an increased annual number of apprenticeship registrations. I think the entire House agrees that the creation of a focused, well-resourced national apprenticeship office to co-ordinate the apprenticeship system and to drive it forward is essential to this delivery. I am therefore delighted to see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I take on board that we have to wait for the director to come into office before seeing exactly what her plans are. The country agrees we need apprentices rapidly, particularly for retrofitting. It will be a missed opportunity if we do not take a centre and office for apprenticeships outside Dublin and the big urban areas. In the main, apprenticeships and apprentices will be drawn from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (8 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made regarding the development of the next national research and innovation strategy; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12774/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank all the speakers. As the Chairman rightly said, it has been hugely informative and we have had a number of very engaging sessions. In particular, I pay tribute to the officials from the Department. It is very clear that they have a great grasp of this area. A huge sense of enthusiasm for and information about the opportunities afforded by these funding streams are reflected in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [11729/22]