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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...to the changing environmental, economic and geopolitical landscape. My Department is also continuing work with other departments and ports to ensure compliance with any EU trade sanctions that have been introduced due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In December 2022, the Government published Ireland’s Road Haulage Strategy 2022–2031, following two phases of public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The total cost of the scheme in 2023 was €382.02m. Children are eligible for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Norma Foley: ...over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The total cost of the scheme in 2023 was €382.02m. Children are eligible for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The total cost of the scheme in 2023 was €382.02m. The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The total cost of the scheme in 2023 was €382.02m. The National Council for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (15 May 2024)

Martin Heydon: ...and other measures to make sure the overall CAP budget was not reduced and we had to then try to make that fit. We are in a different world now compared to 2019, following the invasion of Ukraine and Covid. I have consistently felt that there was a complacency in Europe before that time, albeit less so now, around what the CAP did. Europe initially was a peace project and the CAP was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...set under the approval, is 70%. However, there are challenges facing the sector. The costs for recycling are currently high. This is due to the closure of the Chinese market to plastics, the war in Ukraine, which drove an increase in costs by 18%, and by lower-than-expected sales compared with collections arising from weather and cost issues being faced by the agricultural sector. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The total cost of the scheme in 2023 was €382.02m. Under the terms of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The total cost of the scheme in 2023 was €382.02m. The Post Primary School...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...We have full employment, the unemployment rate is low and the public finances are healthy. That we are in this position after a series of significant external shocks, such as Brexit, Covid-19, war in Ukraine and conflict in the Middle East, speaks to the resilience and can-do attitude of Irish households and businesses. It also reflects the underlying strengths of the economy, including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024) See 10 other results from this debate

...to the committee, when I focused on opportunities for Ireland to address its own security and defence capabilities gaps. Today, I would like to speak on three main points: the challenges facing Ukraine in responding to Russia’s ongoing aggression and the implications for European security and defence; new initiatives at an EU level to further co-ordinate defence production,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...The original temporary wage subsidy scheme was due to last for 13 weeks and we had no idea what would happen. The scheme lasted for nearly two years. The warehousing was extended when the war in Ukraine started and the cost of living peaked. That was for a year but we had no idea how long it would be needed, and it was subsequently legislated for. The legislation was drafted such...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Simon Harris: ...of European institutions. The meeting with President von der Leyen covered many of the significant issues that are currently on the EU’s agenda. We discussed the very worrying situation in Ukraine and the country’s urgent need for continuing financial support. I conveyed the same message to President von der Leyen as I did to President Zelenskyy when I spoke to him, that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...to secure the prosperity and well-being of our people in a rapidly changing world. The Spanish Prime Minister and I also attended a special European Council in Brussels on 17 and 18 April, the agenda of which included Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East and, as I already discussed, the future of the EU’s Single Market. I thank the Spanish Prime Minister for the work he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Seán Haughey: This was the Taoiseach's first European Council meeting. As we have heard, there were several items on the agenda, including the Middle East and Ukraine. On Israel's war on Gaza, the European Council finally agreed, for the first time, to call for an immediate ceasefire, thus discarding the previous and wholly inadequate call for a humanitarian pause. It was also able to agree on the need...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...sustainable. This is not a question of abject failure. It is a question of looking at how the numbers have gone from about 3,500 people a year to one where we saw 106,000 people fleeing war in Ukraine since 2022 come to these shores and where we have seen international protection numbers rise significantly and we are having to build systems in real time to respond to that situation. I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (14 May 2024)

Niall Collins: ...161,600 children, including in excess of 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post-primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs and 6,800 pupils who have arrived in Ireland from Ukraine, are transported on daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The total cost of the scheme in 2023 was €382 million. Under the current terms of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerry Horkan: ...the big wave we celebrated recently which happened 20 years ago, along with Romania, Bulgaria, and, ultimately, Croatia after that. As a Parliament, we need to send a message to countries like Ukraine, which Senator Clonan has referred to in the context of what is going on there, and, in particular, Moldova and Georgia. I know that Georgia has its own challenges at the moment. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024) See 14 other results from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...briefed them on those issues in October, as well as our relationship with NATO. As might be expected, discussions and decisions in all of these formats have been heavily focused on the crises in Ukraine and the Middle East. I will address those today, but I also wish to take the opportunity to highlight a select number of other issues that would be of interest to the committee. I wish...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (14 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ....pdf Link to the data: aegis.acer.europa.eu/chest/category/36/list Ireland is a price taker on international energy markets; the rise in wholesale gas prices since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the strong correlation between gas and electricity prices has therefore had a direct impact on the cost of electricity here. Due to high gas storage levels, warmer than normal winter...