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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Budget 2023 announcement of a €500 stipend increase to PhD students under Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council funding will be extended to include all PHD students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48347/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Consultations (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the Judicial Planning Working Group; when the report following the public consultation will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48412/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: 555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the exploration of the potential of an online portal for road users to upload footage of road traffic offences as published in the Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030 on 14 December 2021 (details supplied). [48456/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: The online portal was exactly something I wanted to ask about, and while I have a big cross through my list of questions, this is one that has not been asked, so we will start there. The online portal in many ways dovetails with stuff those from Dublin Bus have talked about, such as automatic number plate recognition, ANPR, and some of the stuff the Garda representatives mentioned in their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (29 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support that he plans to offer county and city councils to meet increasing costs as a result of general inflation, higher energy costs and public-sector pay increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47704/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (29 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the aid that will be provided for internally displaced civilians in Armenia, given the invasion by Azerbaijan of Armenia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47792/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fines Administration (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fixed charge notices which have been issued by An Garda Síochána using the statutory instrument for dangerous overtaking of cyclists since the law was introduced in November 2019, in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46855/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fines Administration (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of fixed penalty notices issued to cyclists annually since the commencement of the Road Traffic Act 2015 to date in 2022, by the alleged offences for which these were issued in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46856/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the implementation of the statutory instrument for dangerous overtaking of cyclists since its introduction in November 2019 (details supplied); if he will outline the training received by gardaí on the 2019 legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46857/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will introduce a specific targeted scheme to encourage car rental services to switch to electric vehicles in line with Government targets for 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46859/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Parks and Wildlife Service (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the pursuit training which park rangers receive and if he will confirm that the pursuit observed on North Road on 26 March 2022 of a car by a park ranger in an OPW pick-up truck was conducted by a suitably qualified individual and was in compliance with all necessary protocols and relevant legislation....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: After-School Support Services (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will author a policy document advising schools on a way to establish after-school services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46629/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 344. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if schools (details supplied) will be included in the proposed mother and baby home redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46659/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recently announced new minimum annual stipend rate for PhD students of €28,000 will be expanded to include current PhD students given that currently they will be paid less for their work that students who newly enter the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46640/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 397. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the public consultation on the disregarding of historical offences for the LGBT community will take place. [46873/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 398. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated timeline for spent convictions legislation as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46874/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 399. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for legislation on the Independent Commission on Information Retrieval Bill which has been on the legislative programme for several sessions but no heads have been published to date. [46886/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (27 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will author a national diabetes strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46628/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the roll-out of the G1 and G2 Bus Connect services; and when these services are likely to commence. [46202/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authorities (22 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that his Department is taking to ensure that the cycling and walking officer roles that are funded by his Department, are being filled within Dublin City Council. [46203/22]