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Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak on Second Stage of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023 and will support its progress today. The establishment of the new agency is a key action included in Impact 2030: Ireland’s Research and Innovation Strategy and will serve as the foundation for achieving many of the strategy’s goals. The agency will help build the capacity we need for...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Development Plan (30 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 75. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on all current National Development Plan 2021-2030 projects under her Department being progressed in County Louth, including the current status of each project and the planned completion date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3827/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Authorities (30 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 80. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details on the total amounts of monies awarded to Louth County Council by her Department in 2023; the total monies drawn down and spent by Louth County Council over the same year; if not spent, the total monies that were returned to her Department respectively over the same year; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (30 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 89. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of hubs that have joined the connected hubs network and have been onboarded onto the connectedhubs.ie platform; her future plans for the development of additional hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3830/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Vacant Properties (30 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 111. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures being taken to tackle vacancy and dereliction in our towns and villages; the number of local authority requests to date under her Department's building acquisition measure to tackle vacancy and dereliction in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3829/24]

United Kingdom Import Controls: Statements (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Approximately 40% of Irish exports in food and beverages take place with the UK. Some 47% of Irish beef exports, with an estimated value of €1.3 billion go there, while dairy exports to the UK were valued at €1.1 billion in 2023. Overall, it is clear to see that despite the UK now being outside the EU Single Market and customs union, it continues to be an important market for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I have spoken numerous times to the Tánaiste in his role as the Minister for Defence about soldiers being forced to be discharged from the Army when they reach the age of 50. I met a NCO chef who is coming up to 50 in January 2025. He is a very fit soldier who passes the fitness test and medical every year. He is currently running the kitchen in the local barracks where I come from-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ----and as the Tánaiste knows there is a big shortage of chefs and numbers of soldiers are at an all-time low. This chef has over 24 years experience. He has a family with three children who will go to college and still has a 15-year mortgage to go. He would love to stay in his job but at the moment he feels as though he is being forced out and unsurprisingly is looking for a job. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Will the Tánaiste please provide some kind of clarity on what will happen to these fit people who are being forced to leave the Defence Forces?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: In time for 2025.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand on the funding for which students from the Republic of Ireland can apply for in respect of medicine places in universities in Belfast and Derry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1717/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I ask the Minister to expand on the funding for which students from the Republic of Ireland can apply in the context of places on medicine courses at universities in Belfast and Derry, and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I received an email from a third-year medical student who is attending Ulster University. The course is located on Magee campus in Derry and, this year, the students are based in hospitals throughout the east trust in Northern Ireland. Many of those studying medicine at Ulster University are from the Republic of Ireland. The student was shocked to find out this week that upon their...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am surprised that no one else has contacted the Minister on the matter. In fairness, the Government is subsidising these medical students to go to Northern Ireland. The difference is that students from Northern Ireland who wish to attend university there have to pay up to £10,000 or £11,000 to do so. My big concern is that a recent ESRI study showed Ireland will need at...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport given the level of fatalities on the public road network, with an especially high number in January 2024 already, if road safety enforcement is the responsibility of An Garda Síochána, the motor insurance industry or the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2113/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what supports are available for part-time students; if he will expand on the eligibility criteria for the scheduled SUSI grant scheme due to be implemented in September 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1718/24]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Ireland used to have one of the highest rates of home ownership in the EU. Yet, despite reaching nearly full employment and economic growth, just 66% of housing is owner-occupied. Home ownership has collapsed particularly among younger generations and lower-income groups. Housing is consistently the number one issue of concern for my constituents in Louth and East Meath. Last week, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The word "cancer" puts fear into every household in the country. It changes peoples' lives. I guarantee the Tánaiste that not one person in this House does not have examples similar to those I will give him today. The bottom line is that if you are not working, you are not earning. I had a self-employed man come into my office this week whose wife was diagnosed with cancer. He is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: It has been one year since the tragic death of Private Seán Rooney, a member of the 27 Infantry Battalion in Dundalk. Today our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. There seem to be more and more problems for cancer patients applying for a discretionary medical card. A discretionary medical card gives you the same services as a means-tested medical card, however, a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I raise an issue highlighted by a GP in my constituency that reduces patients' access to GPs. The issue relates to Revenue plans to change the current system in which GPs pay their taxes. GPs practising under the General Medical Services scheme often lodge money from it and from private patents into a partnership bank account of the practice that can cover running costs, including light,...