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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...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: Educational assessments for children with learning difficulties is an area of concern. Many parents are forced to pay €1,200 to have their child assessed because the average school can only get one or two assessments through the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS. It often falls on a school principal, and I was one myself and know all about it, who has to make the very...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: I support the motion and commend the Regional Group on bringing it forward. In particular, I support the call to increase the number of gardaí in the State to 16,000 by 2028. In May this year, I was informed that the Laois-Offaly divisional drug unit of An Garda Síochána has the lowest number of Garda members assigned to it compared to every other county and Garda division in...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: At this stage, we are all dizzy from being on the merry-go-round with the Minister on the issue of childcare provision. It has come up so many times, yet there has not been enough resolution from him. I heard directly from the early childcare providers, namely, the FECP. Its representatives were here with us in the audiovisual room last week briefing us on this issue. Many were...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: The fact we raise this problem every year like Groundhog Day is unacceptable. I have been here since 2016 and every year without fail. it has come up. It is ridiculous. In a reply to a parliamentary question I put down recently, the Minister for Education stated that Bus Éireann had reported "a small number of families assigned to school transport services [were impacted and] a number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: Gabhaim buíochas leis na hionadaithe ón Roinn Oideachais as ucht an cur i láthair a rinne siad. How many people are employed in the school building unit? Is there a need for more recruitment? I will refer to a particular situation that is occurring all too often. While there are some positive developments, which I acknowledge, school principals have been in contact with me...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: I used it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: There is a system but there are no answers. That is not acceptable in this day and age, particularly when it is impacting on a school community. I am well aware of the system, as we all are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: That is fine, thank you.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Union (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 134. To ask the Taoiseach if he has acted on his recent statement that he would invite EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkievicius to Ireland to discuss the outcome of the recent nitrates derogation decision. [42564/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on measures to reconstitute the Disabled Drivers Medical Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42241/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown by county of the €10.9m paid out under the tillage incentive scheme (TIS) in 2022 in tabular form as well as payments made to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42234/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulatory Bodies (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the establishment and work of the new agri-food regulator, An Rialálaí Agraibhia; the number of staff to be employed by the regulator; the positions they will hold; the budget allocated to enable it to operate and for it to engage in its investigative role; and if he will make a statement on the...