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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 546. To ask the Minister for Health when cardiac rehabilitation services in Nenagh General Hospital will be restored (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53959/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when alternative services will be put in place by the NTA to replace the cancelled route X12 Expressway service between Roscrea and Limerick; if the NTA has identified the need for a public passenger transport service between Roscrea and Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53743/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 255. To ask the Minister for Finance if provisions will be provided to community groups that are not VAT registered to reclaim the VAT payable on defibrillators and defibrillator equipment given that many of these community groups have to undertake significant fundraising to purchase and maintain community defibrillators and under current guidelines it is not possible for them to reclaim the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts her Department and the NCSE are making to address the lack of ASD units in primary schools in south County Tipperary, specifically the Carrick-on-Suir attachment area; her plans to develop new ASD units in primary schools in south County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53417/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts her Department and the National Council for Special Education are making to find a replacement special education needs organiser for the southern area of County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53418/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the NCSE is expected to issue a decision on an application for expression of interest to establishment of an ASD classroom at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53451/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Reopening (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts her Department has made to return a school (details supplied) back to the local community; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the local parish council has submitted a request to her Department to obtain or use this closed school for community activities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53452/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made with her Department and the Minister for Finance to honour a Labour Court recommendation (details supplied) to allow community employment supervisors access an occupational pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53461/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: The educational needs of their children are taken very seriously by every parent, and particularly so when a child has additional needs. Across Tipperary and the country, numerous children are in their final year in autism units of primary schools. Secondary school enrolments are under way. Autism units in secondary schools should be structured to be capable of accepting all pupils who are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if proposals for additional investment and upgrading the Ballybrophy to Limerick rail line beyond 2021-2022 were included in the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53337/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an NCSE application for an expression of interest to establish an ASD classroom by a school (details supplied) was refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52156/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an emergency works application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52622/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 21 October 2021, the anticipated timeline for the outcome on potential alternatives to the current system in the discussions between his officials and their counterparts in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52925/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 21 October 2021, if an applicant proposes the use of a conifer nurse species, if his officials view this in the strictest sense of conifer species replacing broadleaf species in such instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52926/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 21 October 2021, if his officials raised the specific issue of the disease status of the broadleaf crop with their counterparts in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the drafting of the legislation given the requirement for planning does not take into account the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if a harvest plan was a requirement of his Department when the files that were returned were received by his Department in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020; if a harvest plan was not a requirement, if his Department was entitled to return the files on the basis it did; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if 377 of the total number of 420 files of the equivalent of 90% of the files were submitted to his Department in 2019 and 2020; the reason these files were not returned to the applicants if sub-standard on receipt by his Department; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if greater than 53% of the files referred to were received by his Department in 2019 and were not sub-standard at the time of application as they were not returned to the applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52930/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if greater than 36% of the files referred to were received by his Department in 2020 and were not sub-standard at the time of application as they were not returned to the applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52931/21]