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Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank my Independent colleague, Deputy Connolly, for putting forward this motion and bringing focus to the necessity to fully restore respite care. The issue was highlighted during the pandemic. It was one of the many difficulties that were highlighted during the pandemic. Everybody was forced to live together as a family, which was all well and good but brought additional pressures to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32839/22]

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I partially heard the Minister's response to it. What I heard was slightly surprising in that, on the one hand, the Minister accused Sinn Féin of playing politics and not going with the clinical advice and, on the other hand, it appeared that he overruled the clinical advice and said they were not going ahead as previously planned. ...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: He is looking for a job.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: If Deputy Healy-Rae wants to conclude, I am happy to give him a minute of my time.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I listened to today's debate and I thank the Minister of State for attending. Will he attend the European Council meeting?

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank him for the confirmation. I do not mean to be smart-alecky but there is increasingly a bit of a disconnect. The Taoiseach is making statements that are very much in tune with what Dr. Ursula von der Leyen is saying but I wonder how in tune she is with the masses of Europe. She comes from a particular background, as we all do, but the old aristocratic elite of Europe is reasserting...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I again raise the issue of University Hospital Limerick, UHL. On 15 March, HIQA visited UHL to measure its compliance with four key standards. It failed three and was only partially compliant with the fourth. The report found that there was inadequate capacity and pointed to the fact that it was the only model 4 hospital and there were no model 3 hospitals in the region. It also found...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the costs to his Department and or the Road Safety Authority associated with developing a NCT centre at Smithstown, Shannon, County Clare before such a development was cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a suitable alternative location for the proposed new NCT centre for Shannon, County Clare has been found; the timeframe that is being placed on the proposed development being operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: World Heritage Sites (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will confirm the successful applications for inclusion on the new tentative list of potential world heritage properties for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31809/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will be expanding the €50 million scheme providing funding for water services’ infrastructure in rural villages that currently are outside Irish Water’s investment programmes; if he has received an application in respect of Carrigaholt, Cooraclare and Doolin, County Clare; if he will consider their...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 275. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views in relation to Ukrainian oligarchs and organised crime in the State given his advocacy for early accession to the European Union.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31777/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 279. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31811/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 280. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31812/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with the next phase of their SOLAS apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31822/22]

Emissions in the Transport Sector Report: Motion (16 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: Are they? I think there are worse but perhaps there are not. That is not for me to judge but rather for the Acting Chairman. I thank her for her time.

Emissions in the Transport Sector Report: Motion (16 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: I am struck by a number of things about this report. First, let us look around us. This is supposed to be the burning issue of our times and of this Government. I am one of three Opposition Members here, along with the Minister of State from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Deputies Matthews and Leddin. I have no doubt that a huge amount of work went into preparing...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 268. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31452/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that school transport for a specialised class cannot be put in place to facilitate a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31412/22]