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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Deputy Fitzmaurice asked that I get an answer to this question. That is why I am asking it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Curley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Sorry, it is slightly complicated.

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: This issue goes back quite a while. The necessity to pursue the quarries, or at least investigate pursuing the quarries, has been obvious to every fair-minded person in the House and country for a long time. Nobody could but be moved by the plight of the mica homeowners and something clearly had to be done for them. One thing I took from my very limited meetings with them and their...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: On the day the Taoiseach was elected and, indeed, in the days and weeks beforehand, I raised with him the issue of the Shannon Heritage sites. Clare County Council is willing to keep these important sites going and has carried out detailed due diligence on the capital investment required. Shannon Airport wants to concentrate on its core activities of aviation and commercial property but...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I was there myself.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: They were walking beside the Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Is that an update, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: 449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to the pension increase of €12 given that this person is in receipt of a civil service pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48539/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: 622. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a contingency plan to ensure that staffing levels are in place at Ennis injury clinic at all times following its closure at short notice on 20 August, 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48120/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transfer of Entitlements (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: 735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a final decision regarding a transfer of entitlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47877/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: 753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a reply will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48117/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: That gives me four minutes unless you need some of it, Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I always try to give people time to answer. Mr. Tarrant and Mr. Duignan are welcome. I always get confused with the ESB and the various emanations of it now as to who the appropriate person is to ask. Around Shannon fisheries and ESB's work protecting the fishery which it owns, are there plans for ESB to divest itself of that? There was a proposal that there would be a single body running...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: To whom in ESB should I address questions regarding the fishery and all of that, if not the witnesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Thanks very much. The Equinor deal is not networks either, is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Okay. I thank the Chair for the opportunity. He still has two minutes.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: 205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a reply will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47829/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: The increase in the bands in the five counties, including Clare, is to be welcomed. The Minister of State has fairly acknowledged that more work needs to be done and that it needs to be study based. He said he hopes this study is done by Christmas. If I could urge the Minister of State to do one thing, it would be to ensure this study is completed by Christmas so that we can see the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: I welcome that the banding in Clare has been changed so that the threshold to qualify has gone from €26,000 to €30,000 or €27,5000 to €33,000 in the case of a family of four. That is still a low threshold, which artificially keeps the housing list for Clare low. It needs to be looked at, particularly now that we have such inflation. There will be wage inflation,...