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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It did appear that she wanted a response.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am very happy to respond if the Minister wishes me to do so.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The situation in Cork University Hospital, CUH, is severe and has been for some time. The workforce report which came out during the week identified that Cork has the second lowest level of front-line staff of any hospital in the State and is down 80 nurses and midwives over that period. The workforce generally speaking rose across the system. Does the Minister accept that CUH is in need...

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ní thógfaidh mé an t-am go léir. Táim á roinnt. An bhfuil an Teachta Ó Murchú sa slot céanna?

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ní bheidh 20 nóiméad uainn. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Beimid ag tacú leis an reachtaíocht seo. Baineann sé le héascú ó thaobh riaracháin. Tá sé chun é sin a dhéanamh chomh furasta agus tapa agus is féidir. Cé nach bhfuil an méid atá ann ródhrámatúil, tá...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe go léir. Ó thaobh na faidhbe atá ann, cúpla bliain ó shin, thosaigh an Roinn an córas seo go raibh sé ag iarraidh a dhéanamh amach cá raibh borradh ó thaobh daonra ann agus conas pleanáil a dhéanamh ó thaobh cá háit a mbeadh na scoileanna. I gcoitinne, tá roinnt...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Chaill mé píosa cainte Fhrainc Uí Chlochartaigh mar sin ní raibh a fhios agam faoin iarratas. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil feachtas i gCaisleán an Bharraigh agus déanaim comhghairdeas leo. Is ceantair é áit a mbeadh an-éileamh ann freisin.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Cinnte.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Garrán na mBráthar.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: An féidir liom supplementary an-ghairid a chur? Cá háit a dtéann na leanaí ó Oileán Chléire ar scoil faoi láthair? Níl ann ach dalta amháin, beirt nó triúr gach bliain.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá sé sin thar barr. Fair play to you.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on her examination of the issues facing kinship carers who receive nominal contributions from birth parents and who may then be prevented from receiving guardianship allowance. [18470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she is aware of the substantial discrepancies that exist between initial applications for domiciliary care and the level of success of appeals with regard to same; and what she intends to do to address this. [18473/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the tender for EmployAbility which was due to be published in April 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18471/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what steps she intends to take regarding the extent of the backlog in processing disability allowance claims. [18474/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Apologies; I had to depart for a while. Ironically, the discussion in the Dáil currently is about the means testing of carer's allowance and the potential for a participation income. I have a few questions and some general observations. Previously, I made the point in the abstract that if one has a properly progressive system of taxation and one can look at it in terms of two lines,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will join them in that case. Dr. Griffin also identified the cliff edges. Fuel allowance eligibility is all or nothing; either you qualify or you do not. We discussed fuel poverty recently in that regard. There are a lot of people who one would reasonably expect to get three quarters or half of the fuel allowance. To follow my point through to its conclusion, to have a properly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes. I can kind of think we might have been better off if Tony Blair had been a little bit more cautious with regard to the advice he received on the Middle East, but anyway. I take the point made by Dr. Griffin. In general terms it is true and there is a caution here that needs to be considered. It raises another few questions. I have another comment on a point made earlier. I am not...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is politics.