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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (6 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the recent United Nations Security Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48884/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ukraine War (6 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 79. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the supports that his Department and the Defence Forces have given to the Ukrainian army since the onset of the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48886/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the VAT rate on medication for domestic animals to 13.5% to match the rate for farm animals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49367/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 352. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to fund trainee HSE educational psychologists as is done for clinical psychologists and those on counselling doctorate courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49150/22]

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate the opportunity to share a few brief thoughts on this extremely important legislation, which I of course welcome. More importantly, not only do I welcome it, but I sincerely hope we see its passage through the Houses extremely swiftly because it is important that we see this come into place. We think back to 2016 and the establishment of the cost of insurance working group...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the funding that has been allocated to the shared island unit of his Department in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48332/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: I am very grateful, as ever, to the Taoiseach for his comprehensive response. One of the many great sadnesses of the political stand-off on these islands is the fact that we do not have the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement up and running properly, for example, the North-South Ministerial Council, and that we do not have our trade and economic ministers meeting more often and pushing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address payroll issues in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48799/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who chooses to stay in work upon reaching the age of 66 years can access their State pension under her new pension plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48716/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that additional resources are in place to ensure social welfare recipients who are supplying new bank details to their social welfare office do not experience delays or lose a payment due to the payment details not being changed on-time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects childminders to be added to the national childcare scheme and therefore those who avail of their services can benefit from the reduction in fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48712/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 254. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will introduce alternative ways for those parents who utilise a childminder to avail of the reduction in childcare fees announced in Budget 2023 while parents wait for childminders to be added to the national childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48713/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and the General Affairs Council: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: The conference was a good exercise in democracy. The Minister of State was very engaged, and not just from an Irish point of view. He attended many of the meetings. We shared flights and the odd coffee during the process. I am taken by how 95% of the recommendations can already be implemented without even considering treaty change. Something that struck me was that, be it through the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2023 (4 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the cost-of-living supports announced in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48325/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation with the new British Prime Minister. [44783/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the European Union Commissioner for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight, Mr. Maroš Šefčovič. [44784/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: I am grateful, as ever, for the Taoiseach's fulsome response. I am also grateful for, and strongly welcome, the surprising comments from the minister of state at the Northern Ireland Office, Mr. Steve Baker, at the weekend. They were long overdue, but welcome, and they form a basis for an opportunity to seal an agreed solution to the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol while...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2023 (4 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the package of supports for community and voluntary organisations and sports clubs announced in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48326/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (4 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether if incentives were to be introduced for microgeneration of electricity, more microgeneration would be encouraged and emissions and fossil fuel dependency would reduce; if he will consider this course of action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (4 Oct 2022)

Neale Richmond: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the vacant property refurbishment grant will be extended to the local authorities in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47954/22]