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Thu, 9 Mar 2023
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Tax Code
Marc MacSharry
329. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health if he intends to expand sugar related taxes to include other goods including a wide range of high sugar quantity confectionary sweets, snacks and other consumable products to help tackle the national obesity pandemic. [12060/23]
Thu, 9 Mar 2023
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Tobacco Control Measures
Marc MacSharry
330. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health the current Government position with regard to target timeframe to achieve a tobacco free Ireland. [12062/23]
Thu, 2 Mar 2023
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Bus Services
Marc MacSharry
80. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Transport if he is prepared to immediately increase services on the S2 bus route in Sligo that services Rosses Point, among other locations in Sligo, which is insufficient at current capacity given the effective doubling of the population on the Rosses Point peninsula due to accommodation of Ukrainian refugees, such that school children and elderly people are unable to secure a seat on the bus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10497/23]
Thu, 2 Mar 2023
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International Protection
Marc MacSharry
268. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an accommodation provider for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) who is experiencing financial difficulties will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10779/23]
Tue, 28 Feb 2023
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School Accommodation
Marc MacSharry
340. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Education when the board of management of a school (details supplied) that was approved for works under the additional accommodation scheme in February 2021 will have a decision regarding a stage 1/2A submission for works, given the time elapse since approval was first received; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9613/23]
Thu, 23 Feb 2023
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International Protection
Marc MacSharry
240. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an accommodation provider for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) who is experiencing financial difficulties will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9298/23]
Tue, 14 Feb 2023
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Emergency Accommodation
Marc MacSharry
425. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an accommodation provider for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) who is experiencing financial difficulties will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6595/23]
Wed, 8 Feb 2023
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Special Educational Needs
Marc MacSharry
207. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Education if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) whose child had a place confirmed in an autism class for the academic year of 2023-2024 but had the place subsequently revoked; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5743/23]
Thu, 26 Jan 2023
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Ukraine War
Marc MacSharry
273. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when accommodation providers for Ukrainian refugees across the country, who are experiencing delays with receiving payment will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3825/23]
Thu, 19 Jan 2023
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Greenways Provision
Marc MacSharry
196. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a status update in relation to the proposed greenway Collooney to Bellaghy, given that Transport Infrastructure Ireland has assumed responsibility for the development of all greenways. [2674/23]
Thu, 19 Jan 2023
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Greenways Provision
Marc MacSharry
197. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Transport if work by his Department has been lost with the transfer of responsibility to TII or if his Department intends to progress the project using this knowledge gather to advance the project, given that over €350,000 in public money has already been spent on feasibility, preliminary works, public consultation and landowner consultation for the Collooney-Bellaghy Greenway. [2675/23]
Thu, 19 Jan 2023
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Greenways Provision
Marc MacSharry
198. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Transport the timeline TII is working towards for the delivery of the Collooney-Bellaghy Greenway. [2676/23]
Thu, 19 Jan 2023
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Greenways Provision
Marc MacSharry
199. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Transport the methodology being used by TII to prioritise the chronology of the delivery of greenways. [2677/23]
Thu, 19 Jan 2023
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Greenways Provision
Marc MacSharry
200. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Transport if there is a ring-fenced multi-annual budget within TII for the development of greenways; and, if so, the amount that it is. [2678/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Departmental Schemes
Marc MacSharry
271. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Transport if he will include a rural location (details supplied) in County Sligo for the new pilot subsidised hackney service scheme for rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1776/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Tourism Industry
Marc MacSharry
449. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of tourist beds available in Ireland across the full offering (details supplied), in tabular form; the availability under each category in each region or county as of 1 January 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1696/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Tourism Industry
Marc MacSharry
450. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has researched and quantified the projected loss in tourism revenue in 2023 as a direct reduction in the tourist-bed capacity resulting from the reliance on tourism accommodation for refugees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1697/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Tourism Industry
Marc MacSharry
451. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the contingency planning that her Department has undertaken to assist the tourism economies of small coastal towns and villages such as Bundoran, Lahinch, Strandhill, Rosses Point, among many others by the absence in tourism revenue and seasonal employment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1698/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Tourism Funding
Marc MacSharry
452. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if compensation schemes are being worked out to support tourism auxiliary businesses and leisure activity and amenity providers in tourist areas who will likely lose out due to the absence of tourism sufficient accommodation when compared to previous years. [1699/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Tourism Industry
Marc MacSharry
453. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if an analysis has been carried out regionally to identify the regions, towns and villages that are set to be worst affected due to the absence of sufficient tourist accommodation; if so, if she will publish such analysis; if not, if she will undertake to carry out such analysis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1700/23]