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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am heartened by the Minister of State's response and I pay tribute to her efforts in this area. Since taking office, she has been very passionate about her work and a great support to me and many colleagues. She and her officials have liaised with me on a number of difficult cases and I thank her for that. In regard to the audit, will she give some indication as to a timeline for when...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for her detailed response. I ask her to home in, in her final response, on the specifics of the over-reliance on medication and parents' concerns in this regard. Following what has emerged in recent weeks and months, the entire CAMHS process has been discredited to some extent. It is important and reassuring for the public to see she has come out strongly on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I have previously raised with the Taoiseach the matter of the stalling of the allocation of funding for the continued development of the N4 upgrade from Mullingar to Longford. It has now emerged that €6 million has been spent on the project to date. In the event of funding not being allocated this year, we risk that previous expenditure being wasted. The Taoiseach has committed to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent engagements with the social partners. [7950/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours that will be provided to older persons in counties Longford and Westmeath during 2022. [7876/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the first home affordable purchase shared equity scheme; when the scheme will be available to access; and if it will be available countrywide. [8401/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: The Minister is very welcome and I applaud him and his officials for this initiative. I know there has been great feedback from local authorities that are very enthused by it. The figures speak for themselves: 283 commencement notices and 676 units. Perhaps it is more the officials who can provide feedback to us on this, but in terms of engagement from local authorities, do they see...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: It is fantastic to see the energy and enthusiasm the Minister has brought to the Department, as have his junior Ministers, over the past 19 months. They have hit the ground running. In particular, over the last quarter and the start of 2022 we have seen real success in the battle against the housing crisis. The Minister is the bainisteoir and is here with his bainisteoir cúnta and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Amid concerns over sustained inflationary pressures, and as the midlands struggle to adapt to a new era with the fast-tracked carbonisation and the closure of Bord na Móna and the ESB operations in those areas, I ask the Taoiseach if he has a view on giving some consideration to a further decentralisation of Government Departments and agencies in Dublin, and bringing them out to areas...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [6147/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from Northern Ireland enrolled in further and higher education in each of the years since 2010 to date in tabular form; his plans to further investigate the mobility of students in the Common Travel Area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation of the Cassells report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6382/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (3 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects that baby boxes will be rolled out to new parents nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5440/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of pension auto-enrolment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5394/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (3 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the Report of the Commission on Pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of admissions to the Irish Refugee Protection Programme since its inception; the number of persons that are expected to travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5439/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Hopefully, I have sufficient breath. The latest phases in major road upgrades around the country for this year have been shelved by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, citing insufficient funding. These include the N4 Mullingar to Longford upgrade, which has now been more than 20 years in gestation. It is a critical piece of infrastructure for the region and, given the road's inclusion...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the public health supports available to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4676/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her strategy to address the lower progression rate to third-level among DEIS schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4675/22]