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Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: I am informed that I am sharing with Deputy Cathal Crowe but if he does not appear, I will continue on. I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach very much and I am very reluctant to interrupt Deputy Healy-Rae whose speech I was enjoying immensely. I sincerely congratulate the Minister on bringing this legislation forward. It is very timely in view of the fact that it has been...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: I am sharing with Deputy Crowe.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (17 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 18. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the VAT exemption to counsellors and psychotherapists in Ireland, which would create equity of treatment and parity of esteem for mental health professionals providing psychotherapy and counselling services with those who deliver physical healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16870/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance claim by a person (details supplied) will be put into payment after being allowed on appeal in December 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16876/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (17 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 142. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the internship placement allocation to allow Irish graduate medical students who trained in Derry or Belfast equal status to other Irish graduate medical students, as this will offer those graduates the opportunity to return to the State as doctors, to continue speciality training here and serve our local communities; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (16 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16536/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many new affordable homes were delivered in 2023 and how this compares to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15670/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many new social homes were delivered in 2023 and how this compares to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15669/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (10 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the mortgage interest tax relief scheme and its operation to date in 2024. [14268/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (10 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance how he proposes to protect the role of cash in our society and economy in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14269/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Flood Relief Schemes (10 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be provided for the proposed flood relief scheme at Ballycar on the Limerick to Ennis railway line, where flooding has occurred on a number of occasions in recent years, including recently, resulting in the closure once again of the rail line. [15520/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 788. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14752/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 1156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) has been excluded from the mother and baby institutions redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 1312. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending special leave with pay for those who worked on the front line during the pandemic and contracted long-Covid and whose health and lives have been badly damaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14034/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 1455. To ask the Minister for Health if extra home help hours will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14648/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (20 Mar 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 5 March 2024, if he will accept that the response is misleading, given An Garda Síochána has informed this Deputy that there is no request with it for a business case in relation to the force's long-term requirements in the area; the up-to-date position in relation to acquiring a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an appeal from a school (details supplied); if favourable consideration will be given to this appeal; and when a decision is expected. [12016/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding an application for funding for a school (details supplied) to meet an overrun on the cost of recent necessary renovations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Mar 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 733. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision be made in relation to a disability allowance review (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12046/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (20 Mar 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 1355. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there are almost 200,000 people suffering from illness relating to eating disorders and that there are huge barriers to access proper treatment, as there are no dedicated public specialist units outside the three beds in St. Vincent's Hospital and these are catchment based; when the Eating Disorder Model of Care plan 2018 will be fully...