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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (29 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 9. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to promote female involvement in sports from a young age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47505/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (29 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 41. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the future sports capital grants programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47506/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and Other Matters: European Movement Ireland (28 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: I thank both Ms O'Connell and Mr. O'Shea for the very good presentation and for the ongoing work of EMI. If it is okay, I want to go back and ask about polling. It was stated that a large number say they do not understand the protocol, which Ms O'Connell indicated is of concern. However, is that a surprise, considering that the vast majority of people who negotiated the protocol in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the broadening of supports for those homeowners impacted by pyrite who are not covered by current schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47314/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the provision of maternity leave for councillors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47313/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (28 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 206. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider backdating the universal childcare subsidy to when the child started creche; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47478/22]

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

Neale Richmond: 83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being considered by his Department to further cut the cost of public transport in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46254/22]

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

Neale Richmond: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions taken by his Department to increase the number of taxis in the Dublin region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the latest recommendations from the Commission on Taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46250/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Meetings (22 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report back from the informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council configuration in Prague; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46249/22]

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

Neale Richmond: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to requiring all local authorities to create statutory working groups inclusive of local representatives to develop localised road safety plans that would inform decisions in relation to infrastructural improvement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46375/22]

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: I greatly appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I am well aware that the Minister brought it, at great length, through the Seanad. Having listened in to some of those debates, I will try to avoid the repetition that happened during them and, indeed, in this debate because I only have brief time. I only wish to focus on one area. This legislation is ridiculously welcome....

Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: Like other Members, I begin by congratulating the Minister of State on his recent appointment, or indeed reappointment, to a Department with which he has great familiarity, although it is some time since he was last there. We expect great things and I have no doubt that our expectation will be delivered upon. There are many ways to approach this legislation. On Second Stage, we have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: Over the past six years more than €41 million has been returned to the State through cash and assets seized by An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau. It is welcome that the Community Safety Innovation Fund is using that cash to plough into communities. Does the Minister agree that the budget next week must drastically increase this fund from €2 million...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply but a couple of things stand out. Some 165 services in Dublin have not signed up to this scheme. Last year, a survey conducted by the Federation of Early Childhood Providers showed that 260 providers that have signed up to this scheme did not know whether they would be able to open their doors this autumn. A number of services that are not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: I am very grateful to the Minister of State for coming in to take this really important debate early this morning. This is an issue that Deputy Cathal Crowe, who is in the Chamber, has raised a number of times under Questions on Promised Legislation, as have Deputies from all sides of the House. As the Minister of State can appreciate, it is something that is particularly close to home for...