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Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: I welcome today's upbeat assessment. I certainly hope the Minister's expectations are delivered because there is a palpable change of mood in the country. That burst of hope that came with the news that vaccine roll-out was under way has evaporated. Despair, doubt and frustration have replaced it. With every passing day, patience and tolerance are fading. There have been problems, excuse...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on Bus Éireann's plans to withdraw the Expressway services on the N7 and N8 routes in the near future (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1355/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the current delay in the issuing of driving licence cards to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1356/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 381. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position on the provision of a ring road in Tipperary town (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1353/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position on the delays being experienced by essential workers who have applied to sit a driving test (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1354/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 969. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason those in receipt of the carer’s allowance cannot avail of the fuel allowance; if the criteria for receiving the fuel allowance will be reviewed and amended to automatically include persons in receipt of the carer’s allowance as a qualifying payment; if this request will be considered in the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1429. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of student radiographers (details supplied) to allow same to put forward a request for the development of standardised allowances, placement grants and payment for work carried out while on student placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14187/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1627. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite funding and approval for patisiran Onpattro or an equivalent drug used to manage the condition hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14857/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1659. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite the vaccination of special educational staff who work and teach some of the most vulnerable children in the special education sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14996/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1662. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite the vaccination of special educational staff who work and teach some of the most vulnerable children in the special education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15016/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capacity output if the number of licences issued for afforestation, roads and private felling per week by the forest service of his Department as reflected in the weekly dashboard is not capacity output under its current resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15011/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1992. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the number of licences issued for afforestation, roads and private felling per week by the forest service of his Department as reflected in the weekly dashboard is the actual capacity output of his Department under its current resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15014/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1990. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1016 of 10 March 2021, if he is stating that the forestry sector is not a relevant stakeholder with regard to the CAP strategic plan; if the forest sector, which is a section of his Department, is not a part of the CAP process regardless of the way in which it is funded; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1993. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1016 of 10 March 2021, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that he has excluded the entire private forestry sector and appears to be reliant on his officials who have presided over the demise of the current forestry programme under the current CAP in his reference to all relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1991. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1014 of 10 March 2021, his views on whether not including afforestation initiatives in the pilot agri-environment scheme will further disincentivise afforestation among the farming community; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the GLAS and afforestation schemes were and remain...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of weekly full-time equivalent ecologists working in the forest service of his Department since June 2019 including the ecologists who are subcontracted by the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15017/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: 1995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1015 of 10 March 2021, if he will review the answer provided given that the question did not ask for the departmental target but the number of licence and scheme approvals his Department must issue each year in order to deliver on targets; if he is stating that the target of 4,500 new licences...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: I thank the witnesses for their presentation today. It was certainly interesting and informative and gave us a clear understanding of how complex and complicated the whole system is. I acknowledge the contribution made in relation to the principal items, namely, income, business support, personal safety and the lack of consultation and involvement in the solution process. We must find...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: I thank Mr. Brophy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Viability of and Opportunities for the Post Office Network: Discussion (16 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: I welcome our witnesses and thank them for their presentations. We all know that for years our post offices have been allowed to wither and die. Most post offices are under the threat of closure. An Post is worn out from analysis. It has been flogged to death by Government indecision. An Post has been the subject of a mountain of reviews, assessments and evaluations and numerous reports....