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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes. That is the other thing. That is a very important point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: This goes back to what I said earlier about how the comparable funding now seems to be the same. According to the figures given today on the loans from the HFA, the same amount is going to the local authorities as to the approved housing bodies. There is an accountability issue with regard to the approved housing bodies. Do we not now need to look at this issue? Will we have problems in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: They are voluntary organisations in the sense they cannot be sold off to a commercial enterprise. There is accountability from this point of view. The amount of finance they are managing now is substantial. We need to ensure we have some oversight of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: Back in June and July a huge amount of work was done in a very short timeframe. The volume of work that was done in that period of time was tremendous. We could not have dealt with it without the information that was provided to us.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline in detail the progress that his Department has made to date, in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, in the creation of a national biomethane development strategy plan through the new built environment and heat delivery task force; when it is envisaged that this strategy will be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to reduce the timeline from when livestock in a herd have been tested and identified positive with tuberculosis and when these animals are removed from the herd, in view that the current average timeline is 17.3 calendar days from the date of test to the date of removal; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm what his Department’s plans are to recruit and retain childcare workers in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55729/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 139. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many parents and guardians will benefit from childcare measures announced in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55728/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 255. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 19 October 2023, to provide an update in respect of the legal drafting of provisions for a seasonal employment permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55888/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 19 October 2023, the progress made to date in respect of the Employment Permits Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55889/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of TB reactors in each of the past ten years in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55948/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 426. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TB reactors in dairy stock per year over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55949/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 427. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TB reactors in beef stock per year over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55950/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many animals under three months were TB reactors per year over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55951/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money paid out per year over the past ten years under the TB compensation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55952/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of running the TB eradication scheme per year over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55953/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the badger vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55954/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 471. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review the current process which is applied in determining the core funding for afterschool services, in view the fact that some of these facilities are now closing due to the costs that they have to incur in order to secure core funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55924/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 472. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that will be put in place to assist parents in the Kerry Pike area in Cork who depended on afterschool services in view of the fact that the current operators have decided to withdraw; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55925/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: 496. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update in respect of an application (details supplied); when a decision will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55936/23]