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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications from County Longford that are currently outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15327/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (24 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent visit to the United Nations in New York; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15328/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. They have given us a very good overview. I have to confess to having some skin in this game. I grew up many years ago in a small rural filling station. I am very aware of some of the issues in recent weeks. I have great empathy for the small filling station operators and their staff, many of whom have been vilified over the past couple of weeks....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: In regard to the wholesalers and warehouses, will the CCPC be looking at those? I appreciate that Mr. Godfrey is constrained in what he can say. Has he looked at those or does he intent to look at those as part of the investigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. I wish to make one other point. I have given some oversight of it, in terms of the step up in the price increase that took place in the five-day run-up to the reduction in excise. Every dog in the street knew there was going to be a reduction in excise. The reality is that 24 hours prior to the reduction in excise, a small rural filling station would have placed its order for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I have a final point which Mr. Godfrey may have confirmed for me earlier. In regard to small independent retail stations that want to come forward, all of that is under the guarantee of anonymity on any information they provide to the CCPC, is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Mr. Godfrey for his forthright contribution. I will pass on to the next contributor.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 896. To ask the Minister for Health when the full-time ophthalmologist service for children at St. Joseph’s care centre campus, Longford ceased. [14249/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 897. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a replacement for a vacant ophthalmologist post at St. Joseph’s care centre campus, Longford. [14250/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 898. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that all children have not been transferred to Athlone in the absence of an ophthalmologist post as was done on previous occasions at St. Joseph’s care centre campus, Longford. [14251/22]

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

Joe Flaherty: I thank the speakers for attending. I have three quick questions, after which I will give my monologue on affordable housing in rural Ireland in the hope that the witnesses can give me comfort. On the acquisition fund, which entails €70 million for acquiring vacant housing stock, it is to be targeted primarily through the Town Centre First initiative. In rural provincial towns in...

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...