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Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 10: In page 43, line 25, to delete “6 months” and substitute “1 day”.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We have a very serious concern about this section and amending it is our primary objective with this legislation. I am disappointed my two amendments have been ruled out of order. I will consider, having spoken to the Chair, whether there is scope to resubmit on Report Stage and I retain that prerogative. Our approach will not come as a surprise to the Minister because we have been...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There are a couple of points. I am talking about section 68, which is titled "Investment Management Providers". Section 68(1) states that "The Authority shall appoint a person or persons to provide investment management services for the purposes of this [Act]." While it does subcontract with private industry, which is no secret, the NTMA has clear desired outcomes in mind. It has clear...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I support the amendments as such provision is very desirable.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: To make a point general to all these amendments, and I support all of them, I do not think anyone is proposing that bad investments be made. I do not think anyone is suggesting that suboptimal investment decisions be made. I know that is not what the Minister is saying either. I think the proposition, though, is that in all these contexts, what we are trying to do is eliminate a tier of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Title has been agreed. Has the Chair put the question on-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is fine. I do have a question.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Approximately when is it anticipated that Report Stage will be taken?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay. I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (9 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 30. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what efforts are underway to increase library membership and participation; and to provide an update on membership numbers at local authority libraries each year over the past five years. [20944/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 445 and 446 of 8 May 2024, the estimated breakdown of the 13,000 State-owned beds targeted by 2028 that would be specifically dedicated to reception and integration centres available to IP applicants for at least six months and accommodation centres available to IP...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated total capital cost of delivering the targeted 13,000 State-owned IPAS units under the Comprehensive Accommodation Strategy; the breakdown of the estimated capital cost per unit and per centre for those under reception and integration centres and accommodation centres, in tabular form. [21849/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of State-owned modular units for accommodating beneficiaries of temporary protection that are currently in development; and the stage of development of each project and the estimated average cost per project and per unit, in tabular form. [21850/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of commercially owned modular units for accommodating beneficiaries of temporary protection that are currently in development; and the stage of development of each project and the estimated average cost per project and per unit, in tabular form. [21851/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average completion deadline for commercially-owned modular units dedicated to accommodating beneficiaries of temporary protection; the average completion timelines for units procured in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the breakdown of the average completion timelines of units procured...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average completion deadline for State-owned modular units dedicated to accommodating beneficiaries of temporary protection; the providing a breakdown of the average completion timelines for units procured in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the breakdown of the average completion...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training (15 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Currently, it is not possible to avail of primary teacher education in the Cork area. People have to leave Cork. There is a serious gap in provision. It is well worth exploring. The Minister of State is aware that the cost-of-living crisis is having a significant impact on students' choices. Previously, people in outlying areas might have moved to Cork, Limerick or Dublin but...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training (15 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am used to generic responses to Topical Issue matters, and I am not blaming the Minister of State for this one, but the question I raised was to discuss the need to provide primary teacher training in Cork. The Minister of State's reply must add up to a few hundred words, none of which is "Cork" and none of which deals with the specific issue, namely, the location of teacher training,...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: GPs in Cork have raised a concern over the removal of some 13,000 people from the waiting list on foot of a National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, validation exercise. While I appreciate that checks of the waiting list have to be made and we all want to see the waiting list come down, we want to see it come down on the basis of people not needing treatment. It is our experience and the...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I do not understand the Department's objection to this because it seems to be a departure from prior policy. Apart from the fact that predecessors of the pension board would have had representatives in this arena, the fiduciary duties and responsibility to board are a red herring. Ultimately, once anyone who is nominated by an appropriate nominating body goes on a board, their...