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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There are many black spots in County Louth that need urgent attention. It is creating a divide between rural and urban areas. It is also costing small businesses jobs. It is stopping people from working from home. Households and businesses cannot wait for years. Several people have come to my constituency office saying they cannot continue to survive. I cannot understand why they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The last thing we want to do, especially in County Louth, is to drive people away from the countryside. It is bad enough having local needs and people not being able to build on their land along with everything else. It is very frustrating. People come to me knowing there are households and companies down the road from them that have broadband installed and ask me what is going on. I...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is an acute labour shortage of home care workers in the State. However, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment refuted those labour market shortages in August, suggesting that the recruitment challenges were because of a failure to guarantee hours of work and the lack of travel and subsistence payments. Although it was aware of this reasoning, the Government did not...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill and will support its progress on Second Stage. Irish businesses are facing into energy price increases on top of supply chain problems in the middle of another significant jump in the official inflation rate. There are incredible challenges right across the business and SME sectors, particularly for companies such as leisure centres,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: In the budget, the Government announced an investment of €23.4 billion in Ireland's health and social care services. However, it has come to light that on 25 October, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, recorded the highest number of patients on trolleys in 2022, when 669 people, including 28 children, were without a bed. I raise with the Minister the issue of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I would appreciate if the Minister would reply.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that he is putting in place to ensure gas supply this winter, given the unexplained Nord Stream explosions in September 2022 which could impact Ireland’s supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55323/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he, along with the CRU, has implemented protections or identified solutions to households that hold pay-as-you-go energy meters or numerous households who share a single meter; if he will ensure that these vulnerable homes receive support under the electricity support scheme this winter; and if he will make a...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I wish to share time with Deputies Canney and Verona Murphy.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue. I will support the Bill's progress on Second Stage today. Over recent months the cost-of-living, energy and housing crises have meant that people are making choices between paying their rent, paying energy bills or having money to put food on the table. People are being sacrificed and to add to their worries, there was a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I said earlier on that there had been no objections to this project, which would comprise 150 to 200 modular homes. This developer is willing to help with the current housing crisis. These houses are family homes with a front and back garden. The people who come to me do not want to rear their children in apartments. They want them to have a normal life in a very safe environment. I will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is a problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am sure the Taoiseach is aware that there are great concerns in respect of housing. The housing crisis is felt in every part of the country. Not a day goes by where people call to my constituency office looking for a home or somewhere to stay. There is a severe housing shortage, spiralling rental costs, and in Louth alone, rents have gone up by 8%. This is hitting everybody and all...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Due to the lack of public transport options, the current system has been orientated towards car ownership and use. Many workers and families, especially in rural Ireland, are completely reliant on private car use for education, work and leisure. The transport sector accounts for 17.7% of our total greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, investment in public transport can play a central role...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Finance Bill, which gives effect to some of the measures arising from the recent budget, is being considered in a number of particular contexts, including the cost-of-living crisis and electricity supply crisis. This year, a huge increase in the cost of energy is an additional cost for those who are already struggling to get by. Even before the recent spike in inflation, Ireland was the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government has plans to re-evaluate the way in which local authority housing tenant’s rent rates are calculated (details supplied); his plans to reduce rates for tenants over 66 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52702/22]

Priority Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 78. To ask the Minister for Health when a psychiatrist will be made available on the HSE team in counties Louth and Meath for children with a dual diagnosis of autism and a moderate learning disability (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52629/22]

Priority Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Families of children with autism and moderate learning disabilities who are due diagnoses are in a crisis situation in counties Louth and Meath. I am aware of 15 families who have adolescent children with autism and moderate learning disabilities who urgently require a psychiatric review but have been told by the HSE that the service is not available as there is no psychiatrist on the HSE...

Priority Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: A common threat for children with autism who are transitioning to adolescence is high anxiety levels and obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD, behaviour. Many of those adolescents are non-verbal. They display their anxiety through OCD, self-injury behaviour, hitting themselves with force, property destruction, poor sleeping patterns and assaulting others. Many of these families live in...

Priority Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: In addition to no psychiatrists being available, the only pediatrician available in Louth-Meath is Dr. Maeve McCormack, who will only see children who are aged 16 years or younger. There is a four to five-month waiting list to see Dr. McCormack. CAMHS will not see teenagers who are due a diagnosis and those adolescent children cannot be seen by mental health teams until they are 18 years of...