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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (27 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of appeals his officials dealt with in each of the past five years relating to individuals in receipt of occupational pensions which he and the respective Ministers approved from An Post, Eircom (No. 2 Fund), the Irish Aviation Authority and Coillte and who have a "not less favourable" guarantee on their pension...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (27 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list all registered charities that received funding by way of grant-in-aid or through schemes administered by his Department in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30533/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (27 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list all registered charities working in the area of housing or homelessness with which his Department has engaged from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30534/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (27 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the overall number of registered charities operating in the area of housing and homelessness, and whether there are too many such bodies operating at present; whether the sector would benefit from some mergers to achieve economies of scale and to avoid duplication of their work; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns that there are insufficient financial incentives for persons to apply for options such as home improvement grants when compared with options provided by other EU member state governments (details supplied) and that the application criteria are too restrictive; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to address concerns that persons applying for disability allowance are being charged €60-80 for letters by their GPs; if he is taking any measures to provide for the reimbursement of these costs to those who successfully qualify for disability-related payments or supports; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 635. To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns that medical card patients are being charged for blood tests; to clarify what precisely the policy is on this matter; if medical card patients have any options to seek reimbursement of the costs incurred for blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30598/23]

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm labhairt ar na ráitis seo. I acknowledge the fact that there is tremendous work taking place with respect to apprenticeships and further education. The fact that we are slowly but surely graduating away from a model of further education focused almost entirely on third level is welcome. We need to continue that work of developing a broader vision in that regard....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (22 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 304. To ask the Minister for Health if a tender was published for the commissioning of the report of the Public Consultation Relating to the Review of the (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2015; how a company (details supplied) was selected for the position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30299/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason he has established a consultative forum to discuss future Irish foreign policy instead of proposing the establishment of a citizens’ assembly; the reason he feels that a citizens’ assembly would not have been conducive to discussion of these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason schools will not be receiving the ICT grant payments in June as expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29668/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to address the need for an increase in the capitation grants for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29669/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29670/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Commission (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the new Electoral Commission to be fully functional and in a position to perform all of its functions prescribed by the Electoral Reform Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29753/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the penalties, if any, that apply to individuals or families on local authority housing lists who are offered social housing but who turned down that offer; if he believes that any changes should be made to legislation governing these schemes to encourage acceptance of such offers; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to list all Peace Commissioners appointed from 11 February 2022 to date and the areas to which they were appointed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29755/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the measures his Department has taken to implement the recommendation of the final report of the beef taskforce that the Irish Government should seek the invocation by the EU of the World Trade Organisation's safeguard clause to reduce the level of beef imports from third countries; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: 477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to the data on future needs relating to total job openings (details supplied), by occupation, in Ireland in 2022 to 2035, provided by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, which shows that Ireland is set to lose 10,600 jobs in farming and related work; and if he will make a statement on the...

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm labhairt ar an mBille seo. Labhair mé ar an topic seo cheana féin agus ag an bpointe seo níl ach cúpla pointe breise le déanamh agam mar sin ní bheidh mé ag tógáil mo chuid ama go léir. All of us in the House agree that taking action to protect the lives and health of our young people is important, and that efforts to...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: It is hard to overstate the level of disconnect which appears to exist between what the Government believes it is doing for rural Ireland and what people on the ground in rural Ireland are actually experiencing. For decades we have talked about balanced regional development to take away some of the imbalance between rural, urban and city economies. When we look at job creation, we see an...