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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ...fixed for all prisons/institutions at 50 cent per session with a maximum of €3.50 per week for work training activities, such as work in kitchens, laundry, industrial cleaning, grounds maintenance, industrial waste management, painting and stores. The Incentivised Regimes policy was subject to a national review which concluded in September 2020. One of the recommendations from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...with more than ten parking spaces in 2021 and in certain existing non-residential buildings from 2025. We have introduced regulations that allow efficient district heating systems using unavoidable waste heat to fulfil the renewable requirements of Part L of the building regulations. We support the proposals for the review of the energy performance of buildings directive that also...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Micheál Martin: ..., or 18%, on the 2022 initial allocation. This is the highest level ever and the ninth consecutive year in which the overall allocation to ODA has increased. In 2023, just over 58% of total ODA is allocated to the Department to be managed through this Vote. The remainder is managed by other Departments, including Ireland's contribution to the EU's development budget. I should add that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...relevant agencies and stakeholders to deliver the annual support of €75 for the disposal of medical incontinence wear for vulnerable persons to help meet the average cost of disposing of domestic waste; when the support will be implemented and through which agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (14 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...1999, my Department established the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System (NLPMS) to provide a continuous and objective assessment of Ireland’s litter problems and enable local authorities manage litter pollution in a systematic, structured manner. The NLPMS publishes the results of its surveys online at www.litter.ie/. Since 2002, an Taisce has been carrying out litter...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (14 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Sections 22 & 33 of the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 require that the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) prepare and submit to me in my role as Minister for approval, draft codes of practice for the purpose of setting standards for the operation of CCTV and other mobile recording devices in order to deter environmental pollution and to facilitate the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (14 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: While the primary responsibility for management and enforcement responses to litter pollution lies with local authorities my Department provide extensive policy, financial and legislative support. For example, my Department provided €750,000under the Anti-Litter & Anti-Graffiti Awareness Grant Scheme for 2022, with a similar amount expected to be made available in 2023....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

...for inviting us to present at this meeting. ABI Ireland provides community neurorehabilitation services across Ireland. These include in-home, centre-based and assisted living, along with case management, vocational and family support services. My brother, Peter Bradley, acquired two brain injuries as a result of a road traffic accident and a subsequent stroke by the time he was 42....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

...nurses try to gather themselves together and move on because there are so many sick children. There is a process to be followed. The incident should be reported upwards. I am the clinical nurse manager, CNM, 2 of the emergency department I work in. The incident would be reported to me on my shift. We complete incident report forms, it is then discussed at huddle, goes to the assistant...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an annual support of €75 will be introduced for persons with lifelong, long-term medical incontinence to help them to meet the average annual cost of disposal of incontinence products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3982/23]

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Lowry: ...have grave repercussions for a child's physical and mental health. It cannot and should not be tolerated. It is evident from the report that there are serious deficiencies in leadership, management and integration structures that must be urgently addressed. There is a massive problem with staffing deficits. The CAHMS interim report points to stress and burnout in a significant...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Government too late in reforming Coillte to prevent this model, where profits will go out of the country and the heavy lifting is being done by a State entity? Coillte will find the land, plant it and manage it, and international investors will be subsidised to receive those profits in 20, 30 or 40 years' time. The question is why the Government is not making that investment. If it...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pesticide Use (26 Jan 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ...2010 and the Wildlife Acts 1976 to 2022, which made deliberate poisoning an offence. Possession of carborfuran is also illegal. Products containing carbofuran have been classified as hazardous waste since the legal use period expired in December 2008. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, have primary regulatory...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (25 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...more for packaging that cannot be readily recycled. - Plastic Pledge: Repak's Plastic Pledge initiative supports a commitment from members to prioritise the prevention of plastic packaging waste, to minimise single use packaging and to promote packaging reuse. The Plastic Pledge report is published online annually. The 2021 report states that an average reduction in plastic...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how his Department will support persons with long-term incontinence with respect to the disposal of medical incontinence wear; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3125/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the two management teams from Mayo and Longford for coming before the committee. It is meaningful. It is nice to meet the representatives and see the whites of their eyes. This debate gives us a human dimension to all of this topic, which is what this is all about at the end of the day. I do not have any more questions for Longford County Council other than to say we are concerned...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Holly Cairns: ...emphasised by representatives of the Irish Farming Association, IFA, at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, who highlighted the need to "prohibit the buying of food below the cost of production by food procurement managers in dominant positions." This would be a game changer for the food sector that would enable farmers and other producers to receive fair...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (19 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department is responsible for the allocation of public funds across each area of Government spending and to ensure that expenditure is managed by Departments in line with these allocations. The responsibility for the management and delivery of investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan 2021 – 2030 (NDP), rests with the individual...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Haughey: .... The plan contains challenging targets and will involve real change in the way we live. These real changes will be in respect of electricity, industry, enterprise, housing, heating, transport and waste management. Many of the changes will improve our health and our quality of life. We will switch to renewables, offshore wind energy and solar and decrease our reliance on imported...