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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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: I thank Mrs. Bojadjieska Ristovski for her presentation and her presence. I appreciate that coming over from London is not the easiest thing to do with such a busy schedule. It is much appreciated. This is a worthwhile engagement and I am grateful to the Chairman for organising it. I was struck by the commitment, of which we are all supportive, made by the Minister of State, Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: I thank the Minister for his lengthy introduction. I appreciate that this is a particularly busy week for him and it is always appreciated when he has the opportunity to engage with the committee. There is one area of the banking sector I would like to pick up on that the Minister did not quite go into in his remarks. It came up in quite a bit of detail last week during our engagements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: When the Minister says "we are at a moment of change", that leads into my next question and they are all related. No different from any of us as Deputies with constituencies, people continuously contacted my office throughout the summer because they are worried about the pricing on their borrowings - a mortgage, a car loan or anything else - especially in the context of wider concerns about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: The Minister alluded to the area of bank departures, particularly when it comes to both Ulster Bank and KBC Bank Ireland. Something that remains of concern, about which a number of people have contacted me, is with regard to switching. I am not talking about the switching of accounts, which the Minister mentioned, but everything that goes with it in terms of standing orders and perhaps...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the second summit of the Crimea Platform. [44785/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: I thank the Taoiseach for his fulsome response and for travelling to Ukraine on behalf of all of us. It was an important undertaking by him and other members of the Government over recent months, at a difficult time in the conflict. It is fundamentally my belief that as soon as this conflict is ended and, crucially, as soon as Russia is defeated, we will be able to draw a line under the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of Ireland’s level of energy security ahead of this winter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45732/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on his emergency meeting in Brussels with the 27 Energy Ministers from EU Member States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45731/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (20 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the decision to award patronage to the new second level school planned for Cherrywood; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45810/22]