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Dáil Éireann DÁIL ÉIREANN Dé Céadaoin, 25 Samhain, 2020 Wednesday, 25th November, 2020 CEISTEANNA QUESTIONS 72 DÁIL ÉIREANN 3171 Dé Céadaoin, 25 Samhain, 2020 Wednesday, 25th November, 2020 CEISTEANNA I gCOMHAIR FREAGRA Ó BHÉAL QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER Chun an Taoisigh: To the Taoiseach. 1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of Bills under preparation in his Department. — Mick Barry. [38331/20] 2. To ask the Taoiseach the status of Bills under preparation in his Department. — Alan Kelly. [38077/20] 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of Bills under preparation in his Department. — Richard Boyd Barrett. [38633/20] 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his telephone call with the President-elect of the United States of America. — Alan Kelly. [36601/20] 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent phone call with the President-elect of the United States of America. — Mary Lou McDonald. [38194/20] 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with the President-elect of the United States of America. — Mick Barry. [38330/20] 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his telephone call with the President-elect of the United States of America. — Richard Boyd Barrett. [38634/20] 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the shared island unit of his Department. — Mary Lou McDonald. [38621/20] 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination. — Alan Kelly. [36605/20] 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination. — Richard Boyd Barrett. [38635/20] 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Policing Reform Implementation Programme Office. — Alan Kelly. [36606/20] 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality is due to meet next. — Paul Murphy. [36616/20] 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality is next due to meet; and when it last met. — Alan Kelly. [38078/20] P.T.O 3172 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality will next meet. — Mary Lou McDonald. [38622/20] 15. To ask the Taoiseach the status of plans to reopen society and the economy when level 5 Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. — Cormac Devlin. [37039/20] 16. To ask the Taoiseach the status of plans to reopen society and the economy when level 5 Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. — Alan Kelly. [38080/20] 17. To ask the Taoiseach the status of plans for reopening after level 5 Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. — Paul Murphy. [38834/20] 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with foreign affairs will next meet. — Mick Barry. [38329/20] 19. To ask the Taoiseach the status in relation to the Global Ireland Strategy; and when the next progress report is due. — Seán Canney. [38206/20] 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with foreign affairs will next meet. — Alan Kelly. [38076/20] 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with foreign affairs will next meet. — Mary Lou McDonald. [38620/20] 22. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department plans to publish a statement of strategy. — Alan Kelly. [38075/20] CEISTEANNA LE hAGHAIDH FREAGRAÍ SCRÍOFA QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER Chun an Taoisigh: To the Taoiseach. *23. To ask the Taoiseach the volume of alcohol sales in each of the past twelve months in tabular form. — Róisín Shortall. [39148/20] Chun an Tánaiste agus Aire Fiontar, Trádála agus Fostaíochta: To the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. *24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide clarification for Christmas tree growers on whether they can proceed with the sale of Christmas trees from various outlets such as DIY stores, supermarkets, farms and garden centres under the current level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — John Brady. [38924/20] *25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide confirmation of a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Paul Kehoe. [38911/20] *26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or 3173 more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. — Mairéad Farrell. [39046/20] *27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a business (details supplied) is being denied access to the restart grant plus due to its landlord, South Dublin County Council, maintaining it does not have a lease despite the business paying the council rent for the business premises. — Louise O’Reilly. [39087/20] *28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will work with large multinational companies in relation to ensuring that in circumstances in which international sales jobs necessitating language skills and an understanding of specific areas, such as areas (details supplied), are created that due consideration will be given to hiring workers from migrant communities before the critical skills occupations list clause 3542 is used to recruit for these jobs from the international labour market. — Louise O’Reilly. [39089/20] Chun an Aire Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide: To the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications. *29. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will urgently enact the Private Members’ motion previously passed in November 2016 regarding the future of the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Noel Grealish. [38909/20] *30. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 26 and 27 of 4 November 2020, the financial implications or fines arising from the failure of Ireland to meet the regulation (EU) No. 994/2010 from 1 January 2021 in relation to the security of gas supply which requires member states to comply with the N-1 formula; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Marc MacSharry. [38914/20] *31. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of renewable energy in kWh and the corresponding retail value of this renewable energy that was dispatched down due to constraints and curtailment on the energy network in each of the past four years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Paul McAuliffe. [38941/20] *32. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on a number of pilot programmes in several EU countries that replaced standard streetlights with ones that included an electric vehicle charging point; and if a similar pilot programme could be considered here. — Steven Matthews. [38961/20] *33. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. — Mairéad Farrell. [39047/20] *34. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 10 November 2020, if the national broadband plan will bring high-speed broadband to locations (details supplied) in County Dublin. — Louise O’Reilly. [39086/20] P.T.O 3174 *35. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will take urgent steps to enact legislation to reflect the Private Members’ Motion passed in November 2016 regarding the future of the post office network to ensure the sustainability of the existing community post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Louise O’Reilly. [39092/20] *36. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the way in which it is planned in Ireland to meet the target of a society (details supplied) of all European households having access to 100 Mbps connections by 2025 given the fact that the National Broadband Plan is limited in its areas of intervention; the specific interventions that will be made in non-intervention areas; the details of the stakeholders responsible to deliver on the 2025 target; the plan they are working to; the progress being made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Darren O’Rourke. [39124/20] Chun an Aire Iompair: To the Minister for Transport. *37. To ask the Minister for Transport when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a driving test. — Marian Harkin. [38897/20] *38. To ask the Minister for Transport if consideration will be given to increasing road safety in Kilcully, County Cork through a number of measures including traffic calming, increased lighting and footpath development. — Thomas Gould. [38907/20] *39. To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a person (details supplied) has to resit an exam they passed earlier in 2020; the person or body that pays the cost of doing the course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Niamh Smyth. [38963/20] *40. To ask the Minister for Transport if consideration has been given to encouraging more frequent public transport timetables given the reduction to 25% capacity in order that students and essential workers can complete their journeys without undue delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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