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International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

James Lawless: ...because we moved quickly to enable the debate and make sure it happened, and then we heard from a range of stakeholders, such as representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Bar of Ireland, the ICCL, various other subject matter experts, including NASC, a migrant agency, and others who gave their expert perspectives. We listened to them carefully, took note...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: ...European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, such as lobster v-notching, completion of BIM's inshore census, business skills training for fishers and the young fisher scheme which supports young fishers acquiring their first vessel. BAR funding of €1 million also was made available to Bord Bia for inshore marketing schemes to promote sales of stocks of particular interest to the inshore...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: .... Is a PPP actually the most effective way? The IMF said it should only be chosen when it can demonstrate that it is a better approach than direct funding from the Exchequer. That is a high bar. When we talk about the value-for-money assessments or reviewing individual contracts, that is where cost-benefit analysis comes in, explicitly comparative cost-benefit analysis, namely, an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...to be on two reasonably late night flights not long ago. I understand there has to be a wind down, but there were big signs up saying duty free flight and then the duty free zone was shut. The bar started to close. It was great for time spent at security. I flew through it. Is there a way to keep anything, such as the shops, open a little longer for those who are using the later...

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...Minister of State want? He should talk to the Revenue. It will tell him. On principle, it is not being very lenient with people either. The hospitality sector is broad and encompasses businesses such as hotels, bars, pubs, canteens, hairdressers, barbers, catering operators, hostels, bed and breakfast providers, caravan parks, self-catering accommodation and guesthouses. Many of us...

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Michael McDowell: ...somehow, within a three-month period, we will adjudicate on, first, an examination, second, an appeal and, third, that we will deal with the judicial review process. In the latest edition of The Bar Review, David Leonard, a barrister who gave evidence to the justice committee at the hearings on which I insisted, states: [The] 12-week limit isn't absolute. When the border procedure is...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Paddy Burke: For my own information I want to inquire about casual workers in restaurant and bar businesses. With summer work for, say, students who are less than 23 years of age, where does automatic enrolment kick in? Can casual workers avail of AE? They might decide to join because they would get the top-up from the Government and the employer's contribution, and people can cash in after a year or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The marriage bar was a legal requirement for women in the Irish civil service and some areas of the public service to retire from employment after marriage. While the legislation applied only to the civil and public sector, a similar policy was adopted by other sectors, such as the banking sector. The marriage bar for civil servants was removed from legislation in 1973. Civil and public...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Martin Conway: ...during an emergency situation, but that is no longer the case given the fact that the predominant income in north Clare is derived from tourism for at least six months of the year. Restaurants, bars and visitor attractions have suffered simply because there is not accommodation for tourists. The best approach is that each local authority would be asked to come up with a plan. In the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...we need to actually look at that to scale it into other areas. The other piece around the review is to identify why we are struggling to recruit staff into some CDNTs. Why can we not raise the bar there? What is wrong there? Is it a clinical governance issue? That is why we are holding the review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Right now, there is no funding to deal with any of these bar what might be left with the local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (18 Jun 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

...LSRA is now made up of approximately 60 staff across five departments who deliver a challenging annual programme of work. The LSRA is funded by way of an annual levy issued to the Law Society, the Bar of Ireland and barristers who are not members of the Law Library and not in the full-time service of the State. The levy mechanism was amended by the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to the particular...

Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Neale Richmond: ...claims relating to motor vehicle liability by allowing the compensation body to also handle, for example, claims on comprehensive motor policies, which predominate the Irish market, rather than the minimum bar of third-party cover as is the requirement under the directive. As such, we have tailored our approach under this Bill to meet the specificities of the Irish motor insurance market...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Admissions (13 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...each month of the year and the numbers were stark, with in excess of 500 people month on month. July showed the highest number at 656. It was significantly higher for UHL than any other hospital bar the three main Dublin hospitals. That again points to UHL being a major anomaly, as the Minister has indicated. In 2009, HIQA recommended the closure of Ennis Hospital as insufficient...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: I pay tribute to Cian O’Brien, who steps down as artistic director of the Project Arts Centre. I have always loved the fact he began his time at the Project working behind the bar in 2005. A year later, he produced his first show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, before scaling the heights of artistic direction at one of Ireland’s most important cultural centres. His rapid,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...of the Task Force, I secured funding for a total of sixteen schemes for the seafood sector with a total budget allocation of €307.96 million, funded under the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR). These schemes provided support for development and restructuring to ensure Ireland has a seafood sector that is as profitable and sustainable as it possibly can be, and to identify new...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to the particular...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and very hard to see. It will actually make getting planning in Ireland more expensive because of all the different changes that are being made and all the different reports that have to come in. The bar is being raised higher and higher. Of course, we have not at all mentioned the fact that the actual building materials are so expensive. If we add that to the cost of getting the piece...