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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: Do we have any sense of how much Russian money there is floating around the Irish economy?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: Are they subject to sanctions, as a matter of interest?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: What does that mean, in effect?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: That is a good point. It just seemed an obvious question. I do not want to press Dr. Cassidy on something that is outside his remit. That would be unfair. Let us get back to the debt. It is a quarter of a trillion euro, which we forget so easily about. How sustainable is that figure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: Dr. Cassidy says it exceeds where he would like it to be by a considerable amount. It is €232 billion. Would he be more comfortable if it was in and around €150 billion? Would that be more manageable in the long term? We might not be as exposed to risks and shocks.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: The Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, which informs this committee and does a lot of research for us, has published a number of pieces recently with which Dr. Cassidy may be familiar. We can all see the challenges facing the Government. There is real pressure coming from particular forces who argue every time there is a crisis, either with a small or a capital C, that the Government must...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: I ask Dr. Cassidy to define a permanent shock. I am not being stupid. I understand the concept of a temporary shock but the current shock could potentially be a decade long before it works itself out. Is that a permanent shock?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: When does one decide it is not a temporary shock?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: I thank the Chair. I was actually just writing a note to say that I will have to depart. A group from the Huntington's Disease Association of Ireland is coming in at 11 a.m. and I am hosting them. I am really thrilled to have an opportunity to speak. I will only use five minutes of my time. I thank the witnesses. I am really concerned about some aspects of their presentation. I am very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: I have to depart. Shrinking the gap is a very good way of describing it. It certainly speaks to me. It speaks of a big gap between administration and the day-to-day role of the hospital doctors. Clearly, the chief executive of the HSE and the Minister have a role here. When we go into private session at some stage later in the week, certainly, I think the witnesses have exercised our...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the supports her Department is providing for persons arriving from Ukraine including supports for those arriving under the EU Temporary Protection Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Strategies (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the planned priority measures for 2022 under the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the recourse that a consumer has in cases in which shoddy building work has been carried out on their home and in which the contractor is not registered with organisations (details supplied); the avenues they can explore to make good on the shoddy workmanship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14227/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional schools in the Dublin 6, 6W and 12 areas that have made a decision to open or already have opened an ASD unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14257/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department has taken to ensure the opening of additional ASD units in the Dublin 6, 6W and 16 areas of an electoral area (details supplied); the position regarding this process; and her plans with regard to the provision of additional ASD units in schools in these areas. [14258/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in Dublin 6W, 6 and 16 that do not have ASD units and which have or have not made applications to provide ASD units; the stages these requests are at in terms of timelines for delivery; the reason for these schools’ refusals to provide ASD units; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14259/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in Dublin 6, 6W, 12, 16 and 24 that have ASD units at both primary and post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14260/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she has taken to persuade or oblige schools in Dublin 6, 6W and 16 to provide ASD units in their schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14261/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: 581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) would suddenly have their qualified adult pension withdrawn completely after 20 years; if her attention has been drawn to the distress that such an event can cause to senior members of society; the reason that there is not a mechanism in place that prevents such a sudden and distressing...