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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Among that 25% to 26% of economic inactivity, how much relates to sickness and ill health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Does Dr. Fitzpatrick know how that compares with the South?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: This meeting concerns the ideological approach rather than layering on the economic realities. Our guests are saying we need to get the foundations right to create a social security system. Which countries are the ideal from an ideological point of view, in Dr. Boland's opinion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Does Dr. Boland have data on the people he is talking about, who might take a job and then fall out of the workplace again? Does he have statistics regarding the churn? It would be important for us to see that, given he is questioning the current activation model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Are the data anecdotal, in that case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: They are qualitative rather than quantitative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I apologise for putting Dr. Boland under pressure but my time is limited. Where is he finding these people for interviews? I worked in marketing, so I understand the difference between a qualitative and quantitative approach. Where is he finding them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: In terms of activation, does Dr. Boland not see the value of the Springboard+ approach, for instance? I am a woman returner, so I have experience of the system. Does he not see any value in the activation programmes we are running?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: What does Dr. Boland mean by resources?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Are there limits to Dr. Boland's conditionality? I hear what he is saying about the box-ticking side of compliance. Does Dr. Boland also take the same approach to whether there would be courses for interview skills or supports and things that are more positive? Would he support that or does he think people should not be encouraged and it is completely and 100% up to them to be proactive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: It would be good to see the data on that to understand where that is happening. My last question is around the difference between the two systems and what happens if we introduce our rate of unemployment benefit. It is more than twice the rate in the UK. It is approximately 2.7 times the rate in the North. What would happen there in terms of the impact on the economy? Would the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Okay. I thank Dr. Fitzpatrick.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I welcome the Minister of State. Tyrrelstown is one of the youngest, fastest-growing and most diverse communities not just in Dublin West, but in the entire country. According to the 2016 census, 35% of the population were aged 15 or under and 40% of people living there were born outside the State. Residents have identified a major issue in the area to do with the provision of secondary...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State. The response is disappointing. I know it is not his fault but I feel like we are going backwards. The need for a school has been identified, but the response does not acknowledge that. I will now go back to a community to tell it that despite the fact we thought there would be a secondary school and everyone was on the same page, it turns out we are not and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: We are supposed to be at planning permission stage. That is my point.

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Amendments Nos. 1, 9 and 13 will be taken together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Amendment No. 2 in the names of Senators Boylan, Gavan, Ó Donnghaile and Warfield has been ruled out of order.

Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I very much welcome this suggestion. I will support the motion as well because it is an excellent one. It is the practical removal of a barrier and it supports people to produce less waste. We need more of these initiatives. When it comes to waste, I am of the view that we need to think in terms of good, better and best. It is good to recycle but it is much better to not produce the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I wish the Acting Leader and Cathaoirleach a good morning. I welcome H.E. Palm and Lieutenant Colonel Piso to our Chamber. I wish to raise a couple of issues this morning, the first of which is the news yesterday from the Minister for Justice that there will be gardaí on duty at railway stations, starting at Heuston Station with a new Garda transport hub. I very much welcome this news...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I wish to focus on childcare supply in Dublin West. I will outline the reasons we need a review of section 28 of the Planning and Development Act and the ministerial guidelines from 2001, a review of the interaction between county councils and county childcare committees and radical change from the loose planning guidelines we have to deliver childcare supply in order to plan, build and open...