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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (22 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current average pupil-teacher ratio for mainstream classes in primary schools, not including special educational needs classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (22 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current average pupil-teacher ratio for mainstream classes in post-primary schools, not including special educational needs classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46431/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 304. To ask the Minister for Health the optical support schemes that are available for schoolchildren aged between 12 and 18-years-old to provide financial support towards the cost of optical services, glasses, lenses et cetera; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46437/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister of his State and all his team who have worked on this. I particularly thank the subgroup, on which Councillor Lorraine Hall was the Fine Gael representative. I know she put an awful lot of work into it. It is to be hoped that it will have results from which she and many other women will benefit. It is an important step forward. The Minister of State described it as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: Super. I again thank the Minister of State, his team and the subgroup. This is such a positive step forward. It will make council chambers across the country more welcoming spaces for women. We all need to make sure that politics is more welcoming for them.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary ASD places that will be available for September 2023 in the Clondalkin area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46161/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of post-primary ASD places that will be available for September 2023 in the Clondalkin area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46162/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 122. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that is being made with regards to reinstating public health nurse check-ups for infants and children in Lucan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46164/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I raise with the Taoiseach the serious backlog in national car test, NCT, appointments. The Covid-19 lockdown obviously had a part to play in creating the backlogs, but these do not seem to have been caught up with. The fastest appointment it is possible to secure at my local testing centre in Fonthill is in March 2023, some six months away. People are...

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

Emer Higgins: 91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the provisions in place for Budget 2023 to include a windfall tax on energy providers profiteering from the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45750/22]

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

Emer Higgins: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the feasibility of introducing energy price capping to provide customers with stability of price during the current cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45751/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the feasibility of adding beauticians, hairdressers and childcare workers to the existing list of workers who can claim flat-rate expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45770/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of nitrous oxide canisters seized by the Revenue Commissioners on a monthly basis in each of the years of 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45791/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: 385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she is considering expanding the grant towards the cost of a wig or hairpiece for those suffering hair loss due to illness to also include children suffering hair loss due to illness whose parents have the necessary PRSI contributions or self-employed equivalent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45853/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for her opening statement and welcome the €2 billion her Department is providing for special educational needs. That is 25% of the Department's budget. I compliment the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, on fighting for that budget and I hope we will see the same in next week's budget. I know an awful lot of resources have been achieved through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank our guests for being here. It has been an interesting discussion and it is certainly timely and needed. We know that private landlords are the backbone of the rental market. As has been noted, they provide 94% of rental properties. My local estate agents and property rental companies have given me three reasons for landlords leaving the market. The first is the regulatory context...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: Does the IPOA want to comment on any of that? We can bring in Threshold then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: We have a minute left. If I could just-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: On the case for the arrears fund she put forward, Dr. Byrne was talking about 1% of terminations coming from arrears based on his research. Is Ms O'Reilly's experience different?