Questions asked 8 total

• Transport 3 questions

  • 2022-11-09 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport the steps he will take to ensure NCT tests across the country are carried out by suitably qualified testers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55688/22]
  • 2022-11-09 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to reports that a company (details supplied), which currently has a contract with the NCT, has been hiring unqualified workers to carry out the safety tests on vehicles as part of the strategy to reduce car-testing waiting lists thus raising serious public safety concern. [55689/22]
  • 2022-11-09 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport if he will introduce the appropriate safeguards to ensure that all mechanics and NCT inspectors are fully trained and certified before being able to pass cars on their NCT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55690/22]
• Tourism 2 questions

  • 2022-11-09 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the reason the public was excluded from the 2022 National Famine Commemoration Day on 15 May 2022, when other State events, such as the 1916 Rising commemoration held on 17 April and the earlier St. Patrick’s Day celebrations on 17 March, were all open to the public. [55696/22]
  • 2022-11-09 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the date and venue when the 2023 National Famine Commemoration Day events will be held; and if it is intended to proceed with an international-twinning An Gorta Mór day next year as intended before. [55697/22]
• Finance 2 questions

  • 2022-11-10 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Finance the supports that can be given to companies that may be required to repay EWSS or TWSS payments which they received correctly during the pandemic and which are now being recalled, due to a more forensic application of the rules of qualification for such payments, but the repayment of same would lead to the closure and loss of jobs in such companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53837/22]
  • 2022-11-10 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Finance the number of companies in Dublin 6W, 8, 10, 12, 20 and 22 that received the EWSS and TWSS; the number being asked to repay either or both the EWSS and TWSS; the number of employees in those companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53838/22]
• Social 1 question

  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the possibility that someone in receipt of disability benefit can have his or her benefits withdrawn if he or she spends as little as two days in custody; if her attention has further been drawn to the possibility that someone in receipt of carer's allowance can have his or her payment withdrawn if the person he or she cares for is in custody for two days (details supplied); and her views on whether this procedure has a hugely negative impact on families and that it needs to be reversed. [54620/22]