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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, but the €5 million is premised on those calculations.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate that. It is useful. I am conscious of what the Minister announced about the PRSI roadmap related to this. An awful lot of people would have been hoping for the restoration of the right to retire at 65 years as part of the roadmap. There is a payment, but it is less than the pension payment. Many people were hoping for this. Certainly, it was a major issue over the past...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will send any cases. It is primarily that most people who are on the partial capacity will have come off from invalidity benefit. It is possible to get it off the illness benefit but it is not very common. The cases possibly would have related to periods when people were off sick for a month or two and are gradually returning to work.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If the Minister is willing to look at the benefits for those aged 65 and if she agrees to look at situations where people have been working on their feet I do not see why there is not a right to retire at the age of 65 and a right to have a State pension at 65.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I do not have any lanes and cannot engage in one-upmanship with anyone. In any event, I have two questions. First, is there going to be another round of community halls funding this year? We had a discussion recently in the context of CLÁR and RAPID programmes. Obviously the RAPID programme is not currently in operation, but one contributor, who may have been from the Western...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay. I will give you the context. It is in the Mahon area. The south east of the city does not currently have a library. Mahon would have been a RAPID area. There is substantial disadvantage there. The library is proposed to be a new build on an existing school site. The school could avail of it but it would have its own entrance and would be open to the public. It is going to...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If I can come in with two more brief points, it was popular and other communities are now saying they we might like a go at it. I am sure you will make an announcement if and when that is going to come but at the minute there is nothing announced. The Minister is not saying there will not be another round but there is nothing at this moment. On community recognition funding, which I...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am wondering if the Minister of State will answer the straight question. Will he answer the simple question of what missions this Government wishes to involve the State in that it is not currently permitted to do? If we are going peacekeeping and we are not doing it with the UN, then who are we going peacekeeping with? Will the Minister of State answer that question? I suspect not....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Work Projects (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am a big advocate of the youth diversion programme because it makes a huge difference. I am familiar with a number of projects, including the TACT project and I have seen the difference it can make. It offers the right interventions at a crucial juncture. Carrigaline is a town that has grown very rapidly. As recently as the sixties, there were fewer than a thousand people in what was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Work Projects (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Some of that work is ongoing and I hope it will be forthcoming in the coming period. Some of the objective is to ensure that when that request comes, it receives a favourable and sympathetic response. The context is important. In some respects Carrigaline would be seen as an area which is relatively prosperous and that would be middle class. That is true to a large extent, albeit, as...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is effectively what I was expecting. I just wanted to confirm that my understanding was correct. Kudos to whomever spotted it. It seems like a very small part of the estate of Classes Lake on the Ballincollig-Ovens boundary. It is just about within the city council boundary and, therefore, Cork North-West. I just wanted to confirm that is the case and it is all in keeping with it....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On Monday night, a petrol bomb was thrown at a house in Onslow Gardens in Cork city. A number of children were very fortunate to escape without injury. In the past three weeks, there have been two shooting incidents in the city and very many more serious incidents. Communities in Cork city feel neglected and terrified when incidents like this happen. It is not only Dublin that the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Absolutely, but we do not have enough gardaí.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We are not getting enough on the streets.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Am I right in saying all the amendments grouped relate to sections on deferred pensions and that there are no others in the group? I want to know to give clarity to the discussion.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have a couple of general points. It is absolutely the case that the total contributions approach is fair, particularly to women and those who have had caring responsibilities. In my office, and, I am sure, the offices of the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív and the Leas-Chathaoirleach, we regularly see women who rely on their partners' payments and who are not in a position to get a full...