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Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas le gach Teachta a bhí páirteach sa díospóireacht. Tá sé iontach, caithfidh mé a rá. Is cuimhin liom nuair a bhí an díospóireacht le haghaidh an tAcht Oifigiúil nach raibh ach triúr nó ceathrar ann le hé a spreagadh. Tá na guthanna go léir anseo anocht. Luaigh an Teachta Pat the Cope...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tá brón orm ach cén alt é sin?

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

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Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Caithfidh mé teacht ar ais go dtí an Teachta ach rachaimid ar aghaidh leis na leasuithe ach tiocfaidh mé ar ais chuige amárach chun na sonraí sin a sholáthar. Tá brón orm ach caithfimid dul ar aghaidh leis na leasuithe ach tiocfaidh mé ar ais ag an Teachta leis na sonraí sin. Tá brón orm faoi sin.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta agus tuigim an méid atá á iarraidh ag an Teachta agus go mb'fhéidir go mbeidh leasú eile curtha chun cinn ar an gcéad Chéim eile. Tiocfaidh mé ar ais leis na sonraí amárach nó b'fhéidir dé hAoine.

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." As the House will be aware, in January 2024, the Supreme Court overturned my Department’s decision not to pay the widower’s contributory pension to Mr. Johnny O’Meara. At the outset of the debate, I wish to acknowledge the loss Mr. O'Meara and his family have suffered. Mr. O'Meara's long-term partner and the mother...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Deputy Alan Kelly stood with Mr. O'Meara every step of the way. I met Mr. O'Meara last week and was very taken by his very quiet determination and courage, and a certain unease about being in the middle of this. He was determined to see this case all the way through to the Supreme Court. I was impressed by the pride that he has in his achievement, which is something he and his children can...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta. Beimid ag plé an Bhille sin níos déanaí anocht. Tá súim agam scrúdú a dhéanamh ar na hathbhreithnithe atá ag an údarás ag an bpointe seo faoi chúrsaí tithíochta. Níl sé soiléir agus ní bheidh sé éasca, ach beidh seans againn é a phlé...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (HAS), administered by my department through the Community Welfare Service (CWS), was activated on 23 January 2025 to assist householders affected across the country by Storm Éowyn. Stage 1 of HAS is available to people who need immediate humanitarian support while they are without power and/or water. Payments under Stage 1 are not income tested...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those unable to work due to illness or disability. These include insurance-based schemes, based on Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contributions, and means-tested social assistance schemes. The primary social assistance scheme for people who are blind or visually impaired is the Blind Pension, which is a means-tested payment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (HAS), administered by my department through the Community Welfare Service (CWS), was activated on 23 January 2025 to assist householders affected across the country by Storm Éowyn. Humanitarian assistance is available in three stages. Stage 1 of the HAS is available to people while they are directly impacted by the storm. It targets people who...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Increase for Qualified Adult (IQA) allowance is a means-tested payment, payable to a claimant whose spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is being wholly or mainly maintained by them, and where that qualified adult’s personal means from any source does not exceed a means test income limit. Where a qualified adult has weekly means of up to €100, the maximum rate of IQA is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that the person concerned applied for Carer’s Benefit on 27th November...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, my Department may make Additional Needs Payments to help meet essential expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income or other personal and household resources. The payment is available to anyone who needs it and qualifies, whether the person is currently receiving a social welfare payment or working on a low income. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Civil Registration Act 2004 allows for the registration of a stillborn child and the production of a certificate from the Register of Stillbirths. The definition of a stillborn child was most recently amended by The Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Act 2024. The criteria for stillbirths is based on recommendations received from the Department of Health and the HSE. My...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department's Data Protection Officer (DPO) and senior officials of his team meet with officials from the Data Protection Commission (DPC) twice a year. The last such meeting took place on November 5, 2024. The DPO also attended the Supporting DPO Success conference, which was hosted by the DPC in Croke Park on November 29, 2024. This conference was aimed at supporting DPOs and their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make an Additional Needs Payment (ANP) to help meet essential expenditure which an eligible person could not reasonably be expected to meet from their weekly income. This is an overarching term used to refer to Exceptional Needs Payments (ENPs) and Urgent Needs Payments (UNPs) and certain supplements to assist with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Asylum Seekers (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: On 4th March 2022, the Council of the European Union unanimously adopted the implementing decision regarding the Temporary Protection Directive. This means that people arriving from Ukraine under the Temporary Directive can move through the EU as EU citizens. It also means that, subject to their accommodation arrangements, they have been granted the status to avail of all income supports and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Weather Events (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Humanitarian Assistance Scheme, administered by my department through the local Community Welfare Service, was activated on the 23rd January 2025 to assist householders affected across the country by Storm Éowyn. The purpose of the Humanitarian Assistance Scheme is to provide financial support to people whose homes are damaged and who are not able to meet costs for essential needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Welfare Services (26 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department received a funding proposal in 2023 from Dublin Northwest Partnership (DNP), outlining the importance of the Fingal Centre as a community hub and facility for service delivery, and advising the centre was experiencing a financial shortfall. DNP are a Local Development Company who deliver our Social Inclusion & Community Activation Programme (SICAP) in the area and...