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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: On Question No. 108, to expand on the points on working from home that have been made, the Department and Minister must take recognition of the benefit of working from home for people and to society. People had long commutes and then started working from home. We must accept as a State that working from home which, for want of better English, was a by-product of Covid-19, has such huge...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I take the point regarding the State but we also need to take recognition of the State employees who can work from home, provide the same service and do the same job equally well from home a number of days per week. The State needs to examine this and make sure it has have every incentive in place in order that people are not commuting from the likes of my area in Duhallow to other large...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to expand remote-working relief in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46279/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve public transport connectivity in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45983/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will review train schedules and timetables between Cork and Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45982/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his recent engagement with the credit unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46280/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: We have received apologies from Senator McGreehan. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss aligning education with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. On behalf of our committee I extend a very warm welcome to: the Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley; Martina Mannion, assistant secretary for special education and inclusion, Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister. I call Deputy Murnane O'Connor in place of Senator McGreehan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I call Deputy Tully.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputy Tully. I call the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister. The questions from our members today are based on information the committee has received from various witnesses who have appeared before us over the past two years. The summer provision is one thing and I note with interest the Minister's commitment to it. It is vitally important that it is out there strongly and that every plan is put in place for next summer. On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: There is one final point. On the special units that have been built onto schools, as Deputy Canney said, it is very important that it is policy where new schools are being built, or where there is substantial refurbishing of additional schools that are not new, that children are not travelling long distances and the units are, as much as possible, available in nearly every community.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: Absolutely. The word was hardly out of my mouth before I realised I should not have said it. I take the Deputy's point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Deputy. I very much thank the Minister, Mr. McLoughlin, Mr. Doody and Ms Mannion for attending at this hour of the evening. We appreciate their commitment and our further engagement.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the remote working strategy. [45165/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the implementation of the insurance reform agenda. [45166/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am pleased that he and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, are committed to the funding of the wastewater treatment plants in the small towns and villages growth programme. It was on the scheme in October 2021. The Minister of State outlined what Irish Water said. The initial steps involve the assessment of needs process. The correlation...