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Covid-19 (Mental Health): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: Covid has visited significant pressures on mental health services. For all of us, isolation and restrictions have been a considerable challenge, but for those battling their way through life, it has been nothing short of a nightmare. In August, I first spoke in the House about the following young constituent. His family desperately wanted to get him out of seclusion, but at the time, St....

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I acknowledge the major strides the Minister has made to date in the provision of housing. It remains the biggest challenge facing the country. Now more than ever, I am reassured and convinced that we will finally get to grips with this crisis with this Minister at the helm. I raise the issue of index-shared ownership loans. In the pre-2003 version of the shared ownership scheme, the...

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I also feel it is very important to send a message to the staff of the Department of Social Protection that underscores how appreciative we are as a nation of their tremendous work and commitment over the past ten months. While they are not directly on the battlefield, as such, they are very essential front-line workers and they responded tremendously to a national emergency, pulling out all...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of approved just transition projects given recent confirmation that the stipulations for drawing down funding requires the project promoters to provide an unrealistic 50% in match funding for projected project costs. [4839/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will engage with the ESB and request that the €6 million earmarked from the company for the just transition funding will be ring-fenced and allocated directly to the 30 plus projects struggling to meet the matching 50% funding requirements under the draw-down criteria for just transition approved projects....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 279. To ask the Minister for Health if all CHO8 staff involved in Covid-19 testing and swabbing and specifically at the Mullingar and Longford test centres have received the Covid-19 vaccination; and if not, when vaccination is planned for same. [4848/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that his Department monitors and tracks the development of the new drug omaveloxolone which presents the first real breakthrough treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia patients (details supplied). [4849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Colleges (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will insist on the suspension of the student placement component as part of the certificate in agriculture QQI level 5 and QQI level 6 courses in view of the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied). [4874/21]

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Covid Restrictions Support Scheme) (Percentage Adjustment) Order 2021: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: The country is tired and weary as it looks to get past Covid. There is no doubt that the crisis has utterly transformed much of everyday life in Ireland. I am conscious and deeply appreciative that a range of supports have been put in place to support businesses throughout the lockdown and that, in the main, they are proving very effective. The reality, however, is that many businesses...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who have applied for and are awaiting their driver theory test by county (details supplied); and the number waiting at 31 December 2019, 31 March 2020, 30 June 2020, 30 September 2020 and 31 December 2020, by county in tabular form. [4094/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for each county for the driver theory test from 31 December 2019 to end December 2020 by month. [4095/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the growing numbers of persons who are awaiting their driver theory test (details supplied). [4096/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister. It is very important at the outset that we state we have come on an incredible journey in a short space of time in terms of the vaccination roll-out. We have moved from being the laggards of Europe to being the top performing country in the continent, and this is the level at which we need to be operating. As of last Sunday, we had administered 94,000 vaccines. We...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Registration (21 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will engage with the Companies Registration Office, CRO, to resolve the issue of levying late fees to the original date for filing despite providing leeway for companies to file up until October 2020 (details supplied). [3036/21]

Brexit Readiness for the End of the Transition Period: Statements (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: Brexit is foremost in our minds this evening. I commend the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, when she was in her previous role, our Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, the Minister for agriculture, Deputy McConalogue, and my constituency colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, for the Herculean work...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding that will be provided in counties Longford and Westmeath under the local improvement scheme in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Broadband Plan (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 67. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the establishment of a network of broadband connection points in counties Longford and Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43608/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Longford and Westmeath that have availed of the Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43806/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Longford and Westmeath that have received support under the restart grant and the restart grant plus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43805/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts and Culture Capital Scheme (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 322. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when her Department will issue decisions in respect of applications under strand B of the cultural capital scheme 2020 (details supplied). [44335/20]