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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Foreign Birth Registration (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can review an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7088/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a school (details supplied), and consider a request from the board of management and parents for support from her Department to establish an autism-specific special class in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6726/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding breeding waders and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6837/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding farmland birds and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6838/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding high nature value farmland and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6839/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding the hen harrier within the ‘current distribution and breeding distribution for hen harrier’ layer and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6840/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 288. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the current caseload of the Nenagh Child and Family Agency Children’s Disability Network Team; the current level of whole time equivalent staff based in Nenagh’s CDNT; the number of WTE staff positions that are currently vacant, and the plans in place to address these vacancies;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: I also welcome Mr. Walsh and Mr. O'Neill to our meeting and thank them for their informative presentation. My experience of TII has been good in that it is open and approachable and we normally get very accurate information from it. The general experience with TII as regards projects, which is no fault of the witnesses themselves, is that the system is very bureaucratic and cumbersome and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: Has TII got any indication from An Bord Pleanála that things will improve as regards the time factor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: In general terms, these large-scale projects are hugely important to the infrastructure and economy of the country. They are prioritised by national Government and TII is the principal agency. Surely TII has conveyed to An Bord Pleanála, without mentioning a specific project, the necessity and desirability to get an improvement in the time factors, that is, how long it takes to do the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: I would appreciate if Mr. Walsh could make inquiries and send me a written report on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: This is the N62. The main problem is the need to improve the junction coming on to the N62. Mr. Walsh’s engineers should be able to report on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: What about the Thurles bypass?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: We have made a submission and we will be making further submissions. Is Mr. Walsh anticipating that review will be undertaken in the current year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: Regarding funding, I was surprised to hear Mr. Walsh say that he still does not know the capital allocation for 2025. A small business has some indication. To run a business properly, you need to have some indication of what your outlay will be for the following year. I could not run my business on the basis that I did not know what my capital outlay was going to be in 2025.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: Before Mr. Walsh moves on from this issue, the Thurles bypass was on the list but was then removed by the political authority at the time. It has not got back onto it since. As I understand what Mr. Walsh is saying, to use his own phrase, TII has “a matrix of projects”, which does not include the Thurles bypass, that have not been funded and would require additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: I has a final question on the bypass for Tipperary town.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: Could Mr. O'Neill please repeat that?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Fuels (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the plans for the end of the motor fuel subsidy on 31 March 2024 (details supplied); if he plans to review or reverse this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 17 January 2024, when her Department will issue a detailed and explanatory response to serious matters raised in correspondence from the management and principal of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6567/24]

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