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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Thirty-five towns have storm water and sewage in mixed sewers, and none of those towns has the treatment plant capacity it needs. Are there plans to address those 35 fairly large towns?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: On behalf of the committee I thank the organisations for their comprehensive presentations. This is one in a series of meetings we are having on nitrates. The committee's objective is to produce a report that we can take to Brussels. I apologise; does Senator Boyhan wish to make a contribution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: We appreciate the witnesses’ contributions today, as well as the papers they gave us. These will form part of our preparation of a report, which we intend to take to the Commission in Brussels. Our last witnesses will be the EPA, which will do its latest report at the end of May or the beginning of June. When we get its submission, we will put the report together and we hope to take...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how a child born in Ireland in 2008 to Romanian citizen parents can qualify for an Irish passport in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12454/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 815. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what options are available to an individual who has been unsuccessful in their application for naturalisation due to an error in the calculation of their reckonable residence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 954. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 478 of 5 March 2024, with the addition of another member of An Garda Síochána since mid-January 2024 to the GNIB office in Limerick, what target has been set for the reduction of wait times for those waiting to receive an appointment for a stamp 2 visa; the current wait time in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 1279. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait times for an adult in north Tipperary to see both a speech therapist and physiotherapist after receiving a referral from their doctor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11873/24]

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

Jackie Cahill: 1391. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient transport service is available to patients in north and south Tipperary who are receiving radium treatment in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12430/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 1526. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have their home care package hours filled, given the urgent nature of the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13179/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 1577. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to release another tranche of funding for both the community enhancement grants and grants for women's sheds to local authorities in 2024 (details supplied); if she will expedite payment to avoid doubling the administrative work of allocating the grants at local authority level; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 1581. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when funding allocations to local authorities will be announced for the local improvement scheme for 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11953/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: When the town I know best gets heavy rain, the solution is to open the sluice gates and let the sewage go. My town has been flooded five times in the past six years, involving isolated incidents of heavy downpours in summer and autumn. Sewage comes up onto the streets. It disappears within ten minutes because a council worker gets to the treatment plant and the sewage is let go straight...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Last week, the national restoration law passed in Brussels. I was listening to the Minister of State's speech in my office. He said we have 24 months now to get what we need in place for this measure to work effectively. I will be working closely with him during these 24 months to ensure that farmers are not the ones who pay for nature restoration. I was interested to hear the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (7 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that the security of the entire European continent depends on Russia not winning its war on Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10854/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (7 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he agrees with the warning by the leaders of five political groupings in the European Parliament against ‘Ukraine fatigue’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10855/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (7 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the findings of a report (details supplied) will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11424/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (6 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the subsidies paid to farmers affected by ash dieback will be liable for any form of taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10978/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the visa application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10049/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce an online system for English language students in Limerick to apply for a Stamp 2 Visa, considering such a system operates in other cities in Ireland, and considering that waiting times for in-person appointments in the Immigration Office in Limerick have increased dramatically since 2022 and urgent...