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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list in tabular form the number of recipients of one parent family payment and jobseeker's transitional payment who are also in receipt of the fuel allowance. [19291/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how much it would cost to increase the fuel allowance by €15 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19292/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how much it would cost to increase the payable period for the fuel allowance by four weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19293/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has conducted an analysis of the cost of extending the child benefit payment to all second level students over the age of 18 years; if there are plans to extend the payment in this way as a response to the cost-of-living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19294/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of providing a recipient of one-parent family payment with access to the living alone allowance, household benefit package and the telephone support allowance. [20244/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer of providing a recipient of jobseeker’s transitional payment with access to the living alone allowance, household benefit package and the telephone support allowance. [20245/23]

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — unsustainably high grocery and food bills continue to put workers and families under significant financial pressure; and — this pressure has been exacerbated by the failure of the Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath TD, and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Stations (9 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ballincollig is a place that has grown from not much more than a village 40 or 50 years ago to one of the biggest towns in Ireland. There are well over 20,000 people there and when the census results come out, there could be 25,000 people. The fire service has been there for much of that time but the growth in the area has significantly overtaken the station. It is important to understand...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Stations (9 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Two points arise here. The first concerns the WRC. The firefighters are telling us that they have been to the WRC on two occasions about issues relating to this so there is no lack of engagement on their part but, unfortunately, it has not borne fruit. The Minister of State is not wrong. It is to a large extent a local government function. I appreciate that but we came here with a...

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will focus on two areas. First is the skills shortages around renewable energy, wind energy in particular, but also apprenticeships more generally. In late 2021, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment published Skills for Zero Carbon, which was produced by its expert group on future skills. It looked to assess in exact detail how many people, doing what kind of jobs would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for attending today. With the NTA present I am tempted to start talking about Bus Connects but I will stick to the brief. Having listened to other members raising issues I agree with Senator Garvey that the issue of bus shelters seems to be a very tortuous process. It can be extremely slow. It is not unlike a number of other issues in this regard, where multiple...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In case Ms Graham has not understood me, I will clarify what I mean by "once-off". I am not talking about someone organising an event for, say, next Thursday; I am talking about an event held once a week, say, every Thursday or Saturday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is encouraging. I appreciate it. It is positive to hear. The app-based stuff sounds good but it is vital that the people on the other end of the phone have local knowledge. I am anticipating a dispute between a customer and someone based in Dublin about the name of a crossroads. It is important that people have local knowledge when they pick up the phone.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the interest rates charged for the local authority home loan are set on the date one draws down one’s loan rather than on the date that the mortgage offer is received. [22125/23]

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom tréaslú leo siúd a ghlac páirt sa tuarascáil seo. The men and women who took part in this survey, difficult and all as it may have been, did us all a huge service because we have for some time been trying to grapple with the scale and frequency of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. This data is crucial as an underpinning for any policies and...

Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Táimid ag tacú leis an reachtaíocht seo, cé go bhfuil sí gairid. Is reachtaíocht thábhachtach í agus tabharfaimid gach cabhair don Bhille seo dul trí na Tithe, chun cúnamh a thabhairt do theaghlaigh agus leanaí ar fud an Stáit. This Bill is needed to facilitate, and give legislative effect to, the €100 cost-of-living payment...

Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am conscious of not trying to be a nuisance but I imagine it was anticipated that both the previous debate and this debate would have continued for longer. I would say that is it. Is there any scope in the Standing Order?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay of approval to purchase a shareholding (details supplied). [23327/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department's review of the extension of the free travel scheme to people with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24660/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This week is national epilepsy week. I am raising a very important issue which matters to people with epilepsy, namely, improved access to the free travel scheme for people with epilepsy. As the Minister will be aware, epilepsy is a complex individual condition. People living with it face a wide range of challenges. We are awaiting a final report from the Department on proposals Epilepsy...