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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 354. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a modified Covid restrictions support scheme for retail businesses that anticipate that their income will be subjected to a substantial loss in the first quarter of 2022 due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic; if such a modified scheme will be examined for retail businesses that can provide evidence that their income is down 30% or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a campaign organised by a disability group (details supplied) to improve the availability and quality of parking bays for disabled users in local authority managed carparks and on-street parking; when local authorities were last surveyed to check that their carparks are compliant with the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a campaign organised by a group (details supplied) to improve the availability and quality of parking bays for disabled users in local authority managed carparks and on-street parking; when local authorities were last surveyed to check that disability parking bays provided for disabled...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided to Tipperary County Council to repair a damaged weir on the River Suir at Loughmore, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1243/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the summer works scheme through category 10 of the scheme (external environments); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 3 November 2021, if the National Council for Special Education has provided her with information on the status of an application for expression of interest to establishment of an ASD classroom in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1355/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 21 October 2021, if her officials made contact with the school in question to rectify the issue raised; if this matter is now resolved (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2307/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider special contingency measures to allow expired Safe Pass registration cards, cards that had expired after 31 December 2021, to remain valid for an additional six months in order that the safety awareness registration card shall be regarded as valid until 30 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2308/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Communications (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 9 December 2021, if she can arrange for officials in her Department to meet and speak to the applicant (details supplied) to explain the decision-making process relating to Irish associations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1347/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1594. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE has provided funding to a facility (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this facility has informed residents and their families that they require additional or emergency funding to guarantee the facility can remain open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1060/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite care centres expressly for children with disabilities and complex additional needs by county from January 2020 to the end of December 2021; the number of nights provided; the number of children who availed of respite services in these facilities; the number of facilities that remained open and that continued to provide respite care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence from a healthcare establishment (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if he will consider the reintroduction of the temporary assistance payment scheme to healthcare establishments in 2022 considering additional infection control measures need to be sustained and healthcare institutions need to be supported to maintain...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1774. To ask the Minister for Health when he will meet with an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1781/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only 4,035 forestry licences were issued by his Department in 2021, which is well short of his Department's own target of 4,500 for 2021; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the figure of 4,035 is far below the of 7,000 licences the industry actually required;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 1977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target number of forestry licences his Department plans to issue in 2022; if he plans to invest additional resources in the Forest Service in order to reach the 7,000 licences required annually by the industry given the well documented additional resources invested into the Forest Service in 2020 and 2021; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (16 Dec 2021)

Michael Lowry: 619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give consideration to recommendations by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62497/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Lowry: The hospitality sector has suffered enormously since the pandemic began. As the Minister is aware, people had barely settled back to work when it was deemed necessary to implement further restrictions. Hotels are being particularly hard hit by these restrictions. Room bookings, meetings and numerous events have been cancelled. This will drastically curtail seasonal trading for hotels in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Lowry: The most important thing the Minister has said is that the Government is waiting for the HSE to deliver a plan to it. We in Tipperary and Roscrea all know what the HSE will deliver to us. It will deliver a short-term unit with no long-stay beds. The future of Dean Maxwell is now a clear-cut political decision. The unit is doomed as it is at present unless there is an explicit and clear...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Lowry: I am going to continue in the same vein, on the issue of the Dean Maxwell home. I am not satisfied with the answer. I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Butler, for telling me last week that a 12-month extension will be granted. I have communicated this to the residents and management of the home. Therefore, there is no new news in that regard. The time...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Dec 2021)

Michael Lowry: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional supports will be provided to those within the hospitality sector; if he and his colleagues in the appropriate Departments will consider measures (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61248/21]