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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Chair for allowing me to come in as a non-member of the committee. I appreciate the opportunity, and I thank the Minister and his officials also for the information they have provided. As the Minister knows, I received a reply to a parliamentary question from him last week in respect of the number of farmers awaiting the ACRES payment. I was quite shocked and astonished to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4652/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused an exceptional needs payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4632/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection that average length of time it takes from the day of application for an applicant to be either granted or denied disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4651/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what engagement his Department has had with Scottish authorities on matters of biosecurity with specific reference to the bark beetle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4628/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given consideration to a request from an organisation (details supplied) to temporarily suspend the importation of timber into Ireland while simultaneously setting up a taskforce and a National Forestry Strategy in his Department to oversee and investigate the biosecurity failings that allowed bark beetle to enter County...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tree Remediation (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine about the issue of ash dieback in respect of roadside recovery and felling, who is responsible for clearing ash dieback effects from the roadside; what role his Department has in this action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4629/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tree Remediation (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with local authorities on the recovery of ash dieback from the roadside; if he has a role in requesting a local authority to remove ash dieback related debris; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4630/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how he will ensure biosecurity measures at Irish points of entry are increased as a preventative step; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4631/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine about the significant lack of confidence from farmers in respect of the delays with the forestry programme and the need for the urgent establishment of a national forestry strategy taskforce to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4634/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if he will comment on a service level agreement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4644/24]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate the Chair allowing me in as I am not a member of the committee. I am seeking updates on the delivery of a number of things for this year in respect of yesterday's online meeting. We were given the opportunity to discuss ongoing issues at UHL with the new regional health executive officer, Sandra Broderick. I was happy to attend and I wish Ms Broderick the very best in her...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I commend this timely motion on this crucial issue. We are nearly four months into the genocide in Gaza - the first genocide to be live-streamed across the world. A record number of bombs have been dropped, killing over 25,000 people in Gaza in just three months, including over 10,000 children. Some 95% of the hungriest people in the world are now in Gaza, as the Israeli Government uses...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: It is just over a year since I first condemned in this House the Minister's proposal to convert a light industrial building in Shannon into emergency accommodation for IPAS. I gave my reasons then, and consistently since, for opposing the proposal. I liaised with the Department on behalf of Shannon Chamber to meet the Minister about this. My team followed up with 15 emails and made 22...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I will conclude with this question. How can one effectively respond if one is not listening?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: International Agreements (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland plans has any plans to exit an international treaty (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4311/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to comment on the current iteration of the regional airports programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4313/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a review into the Regional Airports Programme will conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4314/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total to the nearest euro in State aid received by each airport in Ireland over the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4315/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will comment on the steps that need to be taken in order to bring Irish aviation policy into line with the objectives of Project Ireland 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4316/24]