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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

James Lawless: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 4 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19808/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

James Lawless: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 1 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19807/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (2 May 2024)

James Lawless: 201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review of the Irish Residence Permit card fee will be completed; if a reduction on these fees is anticipated soon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20453/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 May 2024)

James Lawless: 89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to examine a passport issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19898/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [14090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to examine a passport issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18932/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: 150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to expedite a passport application of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19077/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the steps his Department is taking to create a more robust enforcement and implementation of the Protected Disclosures Amendment Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18957/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will begin on the permanent school building for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18792/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Leave (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: 437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the current criteria regarding carers leave/benefits (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18784/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: 699. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an issue (details supplied). [19116/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: We have received apologies from Deputy Mark Ward. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire is substituting for Deputy Ward and I am sure he will join us shortly. This is the first of two sessions today. In this session we will engage with Ms Nuala Egan, who has been appointed chair of the Legal Aid Board. Ms Egan is very welcome to our committee, we are delighted to have her with us and we thank...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: I thank Ms Egan for that very useful overview of her role and the service the Legal Aid Board provides. We will take questions from members now. I propose to the committee that we allocate four minutes per member instead of the usual six because we are under pressure with the number of items we need to get through this afternoon. We can have a second round if there is time left. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: The split-fee system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: Very good. I thank Ms Egan. I will call the next member. Deputy Pringle had indicated next. Then I will call Deputy Daly and Senator Ruane. That is the order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: I call Deputy Ó Ríordáin, to be followed by our visitor, Deputy McNamara.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: I call our visitor, Deputy McNamara. We are under a bit of time pressure, so I ask the Deputy to be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: That brings the session to a close. We are about to move on to another session. I thank Ms Egan for her engagement, which has been extremely useful. We had intended to engage with the board, so it was a good time to have her appear before us. I wish her good luck with her work. As a procedural note, we will inform the Minister that we have had engagement with Ms Egan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

James Lawless: I welcome our witnesses. I thank them for joining us. I will come to them all individually in a moment. The purpose of today's meeting is to consider the directive on international protection, asylum and migration, sometimes called the EU asylum and migration pact, from the European Parliament. This is part two of our deliberation. We met with the Minister last week, when we had some...