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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...year-olds in full-time education was one of my key priorities as part of Budget 2024. The measure is expected to benefit approximately 60,000 18 year olds each year at an estimated cost of €21.6 million in 2024. With many children now starting primary school at age 5, together with the increase in pupils doing transition year, there has been an increase in the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (14 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Significant additional resources have been allocated to the hospital in recent years to meet the needs of patients. Staffing at the hospital is now approx. 2,660 WTE (July 2023), an increase of 36.5% since December 2019. The hospital’s budget has increased by 30% since 2019 to €261.7 million, a significant increase in funding in this time period. The Programme for...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (14 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The focus of the 2022 Community Centres Investment Fund was the improvement and refurbishment of existing community centres across Ireland. Over €45.8 million has been committed to this important refurbishment work. This year the focus of the Fund moved tonew builds.I want to assist community groups striving to build their own community centre to service local needs. In March, I was...

Defective Dwellings Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: ..., and can be as severe as not having an escape route or not having a fire-detecting alarm system. Other defects include water ingress defects, which adversely affect roofs. This defect is present in between 20% and 50% of homes. Structural defects which make the home quite literally uninhabitable, where the roof or walls of the home are defective and therefore a risk to the inhabitants,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...been developed by the then auditor of the charity. This raises very serious and obvious conflict-of-interest concerns. The level of homelessness has exploded under Fianna Fáil's watch by nearly 50% since July 2020. The State will spend over €240 million on homelessness services next year. Vital public services have been outsourced to homelessness charity corporates. What...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (9 Nov 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...CPO, activation programme was launched in April which supports a proactive and systematic approach by local authorities to bringing vacant and derelict properties back into use as homes. Some €150 million is being made available under the urban regeneration and development fund for local authorities to acquire vacant or derelict properties for reuse or sale. In addition, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (9 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...be aware, this year is the first time funding has been provided to support the implementation of the national stroke strategy. We launched it last year and last year's budget provided nearly €5 million for this year to roll out the new stroke strategy. The Deputy and various of our party colleagues have been advocating for neurorehabilitation nurses, including in the Deputy's...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Strategies (9 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...a year, so it is clearly very important. As the Deputy said, I approved the national stroke strategy last year and allocated in the budget for this year a significant amount of money, nearly €5 million, to support the implementation of the strategy. This included the recruitment of two consultant stroke physicians, a consultant neuroradiologist and senior speech and language...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...plan in the history of the State. The Plan is supported by an investment package of over €4 billion per annum, through an overall combination of €12 billion in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5 billion investment through the Land Development Agency (LDA) and €5 billion lending through the Housing Finance Agency (HFA). Budget 2024 again provides record levels...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...homes has gone down considerably in recent years precisely because home support has improved and people can stay at home for longer. The overall budget for home support this year is €723 million. That is an increase of €228 million since this Government came to office, so nearly a 40% increase in funding for home care just under this Government. Far from being cut, the...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Nov 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...two electricity costs emergency benefit schemes, in 2022 and 2023. The electricity costs emergency benefit scheme III will see three payments of €137.61, excluding VAT, made to approximately 2.2 million domestic electricity accounts between December and April. Following a review of the previous schemes, this scheme will introduce a low-electricity-usage threshold to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

...undergraduate higher education delivery for the land sector. Total annual participation levels for Teagasc further education and Teagasc-linked higher education programmes have ranged from 5,000 to 6,000 in recent years. Teagasc also offers Quality and Qualifications Ireland-accredited and non-accredited short-duration courses on specific topics subject to demand. The Teagasc...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 144. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development how much of the €5 million allocated to the blue ways tourism fund that has been drawn down in Kildare south; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48882/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Michael McGrath: ...years old. It allows these investors to avail of a reduced rate of CGT on a sale to a third party. The investment made must be for a minimum amount of €20,000, or €10,000 where at least a 5% shareholding is acquired, and the shares acquired must be held for a minimum of three years. The reduced CGT rate of 16% is available on a gain of value equivalent to twice the value...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to access and meaningfully participate in the ECCE programme since it was first introduced in September 2016. A commitment to expand AIM beyond the ECCE programme was first made in the First 5 strategy. The fulfilment of this commitment was to be informed by an independent evaluation of AIM. That evaluation is now complete and it will be published before the end of this year. ...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...response agencies for their work in very difficult and challenging conditions during this flooding event. Last week the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, announced that she has secured a further €3 million in funding for the humanitarian assistance scheme, which is administered by the Department of Social Protection. This scheme provides support to those living in properties...

Seanad: Housing For All: Statements (7 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

John Cummins: ...many of the comments made by the Minister with regard to the progress that has been made through both Housing for All and Rebuilding Ireland. If we look at where we came from in 2013, fewer than 5,000 homes were being built in this country. Last year, 30,000 homes were delivered. We are going to exceed that number again this year. More than 470 first-time buyers are purchasing their...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...in 2024, building on the increases in recent years and securing the achievements into the future. The full package of current funding for youth services and programmes in my Department is €77.95 million, an increase of €5 million, or 6.8%, on the 2023 budget. There is no capital allocation in 2024. €74.45m is being provided for youth services funded under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...funding has allowed the OPW, in partnership with local authorities throughout the country, to treble the number of schemes at design, planning and construction to some 98 schemes at this time. In the last 5 years (2018 - 2022), the OPW has invested some €300 million in flood relief expenditure. To date, 53 schemes have been completed, which are providing protection to over...