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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...that 62 modular homes for asylum seekers were being considered for construction on Heywood Road. We did not hear a dickybird since then. I have been trying through parliamentary questions and freedom of information, FOI, requests to get information but I could not get it. Last Friday, I got responses back to an FOI request and a parliamentary question. At 6.30 p.m. on Friday evening,...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendment No. 6 would require that prior to any shareholder letter of expectation being issued that it would be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas. This is important from the point of view of public transparency and accountability and given the context that shareholder letters to other semi-State bodies such as Coillte and Bord na Móna, have shown very little regard for climate...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that the Department of Social Protection's Green Paper on Disability Reform: — proposes to introduce three "tiers" of payments depending on a person's supposed ability to work; — was published with no consultation with disabled people, and is opposed by a wide range of disabled people and their organisations; - will do nothing to...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...raised it. I am delighted at long last to be introducing the legislation in the Dáil which will give effect to auto-enrolment in Ireland. Today is a major milestone and it is the culmination of years of policy development, consultation and discussion with stakeholders, and decision-making on how best to supplement income for people in their old age. Enactment of this Bill will...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Ms Claire Dil?: I thank the Chair and members of the committee for the invitation to attend today’s meeting on the topic of the protection of children in the use of AI. I am director of government affairs for Europe at X and I am joined today by my colleague, Ms Niamh McDade, our head of government affairs for Ireland and the UK. As we aim to build a global town square and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...up to the public meeting, which was in his colleague's own back yard in Inishowen, he would have heard very clearly that this scheme is not working. Maybe then the Minister would take his head out of the sand. This scheme is not working. We voted against it because we voted for the amendments the campaigners wanted to make sure it would work. The Minister spoke about how some people...

Seanad: EU Regulations (Police Co-operation on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings): Motion (11 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...I welcome the opportunity to address the Seanad on Ireland's opt-in to a new EU proposal for a regulation on enhancing police co-operation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings, and on enhancing Europol's support to preventing and combating such crimes and amending Regulation (EU) 2016/794, which is the Europol...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Planning statistics are compiled by each planning authority on an annual basis for collation and publication on my Department’s website. The information requested on the total number of applications and refusals by counties in each of the past three years in both outline permission and planning permission for the period up to and including 2022 is included in the statistics available...

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Ms Gr?inne Loughran: I will come in briefly on where we are at on benchmarking. The roadmap for social inclusion committed to the introduction of a system of benchmarking rates of pension to wages and inflation. The commitment was downgraded. The mid-term review of the roadmap revised the statement to use the smoothed earnings approach to benchmarking and indexation as an input in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (9 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the review of the freedom of information regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14354/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (9 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 6 March 2024, the reason an official from his Department is listed on a website (details supplied) as the FOI contact for the Irish Horse Board; what measures to comply with freedom of information (FOI) have been taken by the Irish Horse Board; if he has trust in the organisation's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Role of Disabled Persons Organisations and Self Advocacy in Providing Equal Opportunities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Implementation: Discussion (8 Apr 2024)

Mr. David Digan: I am a 39-year-old father of a seven-year-old daughter from County Westmeath. I am a self-advocate single-arm amputee. I have been advocating for change in the primary medical certificate criteria as the 1968 outdated criteria only include six disabilities and the category of single-arm amputees is not one of them. The UNCRPD law is being breached by the Government and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The truth always comes out in these matters. To put the Minister of State and the Minister on notice, I have already submitted detailed parliamentary questions and freedom of information requests to ensure that the full facts of this amendment come into the public domain. I appreciate this is not a matter that the Minister of State has been directly involved in but he is answering questions...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is a fact; it is well known. The advice from the Attorney General and others was withheld. These questions must be discussed. For example, shocking files obtained from the Department of Finance under freedom of information suggest that the wording of the amendment on care was deliberately chosen by the Government to avoid a concrete and mandatory obligation on the State. Imagine that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Yes, it is accessible under freedom of information, FOI.

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Pat Buckley: I forgot to mention the list of correspondence of the county council about alleged unauthorised developments in respect of Waterways Ireland. Has that list been completed yet? This is starting to stretch out. I have been trying to get information on it through a freedom of information request and I have basically been blocked legally from obtaining answers. I have photographic evidence of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Throughout the referendum campaign, Aontú said that the care amendment was designed by the Department of Finance. We said the wording proposed in the referendum was designed to protect budgets. A leak of the Attorney General's advice and responses to freedom of information, FOI, requests that have subsequently been published by the Department of Finance basically give credibility and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Sharon Keogan: The witnesses are very welcome. I am sorry I missed their presentations but I read them very carefully. I have a lot of questions because this is a really important issue for freedom of speech and censorship going forward. I am aware Coimisiún na Meán has only recently been granted some powers with regard to illegal and harmful content. Has the commission received any complaints...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to expand on the schedule of prescribed bodies in the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (details supplied); and if he has consulted the Data Protection Commissioner in this regard and-or his ministerial and departmental colleagues. [11937/24]