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Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Cross-Border Co-operation
Brendan Smith
276. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the initiatives that will be undertaken to promote student mobility North-South and South-North; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63128/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Family Law Cases
Brendan Smith
291. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 9 November 2022, if there has been any further progress in the consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63119/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Nursing Homes
Brendan Smith
334. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the additional financial supports that will be provided for small-scale nursing home providers in view of the substantial additional costs incurred recently by such providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63018/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Nursing Homes
Brendan Smith
335. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that adequate financial support is provided for small-scale nursing home providers given that a number of such providers have closed over recent months and it is essential that private nursing home care is not provided solely by large-scale operators, which would result in some rural communities losing such important health care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63019/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Disability Services
Brendan Smith
336. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health when additional health care places will be provided to an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63020/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Health Strategies
Brendan Smith
362. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the initiatives that will be undertaken within a health care programme in 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63050/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Renewable Energy Generation
Brendan Smith
393. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that are available to farmers to install solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62855/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Forestry Sector
Brendan Smith
400. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who had to cease willow production will receive compensation payments under the Just Transition Programme due to the substantial costs that they have incurred in exiting such production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63015/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Forestry Sector
Brendan Smith
401. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to date in eliminating the delays in processing applications for forestry planting and felling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63101/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Departmental Funding
Brendan Smith
402. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of funding provided for forestry research to date in 2022; the estimated level of funding to be provided for such work in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63102/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Departmental Data
Brendan Smith
403. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to date in preparing data on the sequestration of carbon by hedgerows to ensure the inclusion of hedgerows in the national inventory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63106/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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Energy Conservation
Brendan Smith
28. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the proposals, if any, to introduce additional financial supports for persons, particularly for those on low incomes, who wish to retrofit their homes; if his attention has been drawn to the long delays in sourcing support from existing schemes; if a grant aid scheme can be introduced to ensure that unacceptable delays are eliminated in having applications processed and approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62456/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Brendan Smith
61. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that public servants who contracted long-Covid due to their work commitments and who will be unable to resume employment for a considerable length of time, if at all, will be provided with proper financial supports taking into account their employment income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62454/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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Northern Ireland
Brendan Smith
118. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has had any recent discussions with the authorities in the United States in relation to the appointment by President Biden of a Special Envoy to Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62377/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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Northern Ireland
Brendan Smith
128. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if in communications with the with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland he has raised the need for the British government and Northern Ireland authorities to fully co-operate in all investigations into atrocities such as the Belturbet bombing of December 1972 and the Dublin Monaghan bombings of May 1974; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62824/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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Northern Ireland
Brendan Smith
129. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the outcome of his most recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in relation to the present and unacceptable British government proposals to deal with legacy issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62825/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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School Accommodation
Brendan Smith
140. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education when a project in respect of the provision of additional accommodation at a school (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62452/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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School Accommodation
Brendan Smith
141. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education the progress to date in the provision of specific accommodation at second-level schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62453/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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Third Level Costs
Brendan Smith
215. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 630 of 18 October 2022 and 511 of 4 October 2022, when students studying in Northern Ireland and Britain will be able to avail of the once-off €1,000 State financial support towards undergraduate fees; if his attention has been drawn to a commitment that An Taoiseach gave in Dáil Éireann that this issue would be reviewed; if his attention has been further drawn to reports that many of the students studying outside the State, despite excellent Leaving Certificate results, were unable to secure places on their courses of choice in colleges in Ireland; if he agrees that obstacles should not be put in the way of students studying in Northern Ireland, or likewise students from Northern Ireland studying in the State and that one should be encouraging the movement of students on an all-Ireland basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62821/22]
Tue, 13 Dec 2022
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Cabinet Committees
Brendan Smith
9. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with agriculture will next meet. [59342/22]