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Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Thank you, Chair. I was going to come in on that exact point. I come from Portumna on the Shannon, not too far from Deputy Kelly at all. There are 40,000 people where I am based in Portumna, but I am depending on Gort Garda station to look after me. There are two nights during the week, I will not say which two, when there might not be three people on duty. If there is an incident in...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Free Legal Advice Centres (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I apologise for being late. I do not see it as a double entitlement. First, as Senator O'Reilly and Mr. Bowes have rightly said in their remarks, a lot of the people who pass away already have contributory entitlements. The widow or widower is actually only claiming off his or her late spouse's entitlement. If a person becomes ill, he or she becomes ill in his or her own right. That is...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I really welcome this Economic and Social Research Institute report. A bespoke piece of work like this gives us a great understanding and a wider context. At the end of the day, it helps us form policy and a direction when it talks about €773 million, because the budget last year for social protection was about €2.5 billion. I was doing a bit of research to see if there is...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I want to tease that out a little bit further. There is the figure of 195,000 children, and then there is a figure of 100,000 children in consistent poverty. Have the witnesses the data behind that research to say it is X number of families of lone parents that fall into that category? Or, it is X number of families that are in receipt of the disability allowance, for example. The...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Straight away that is an identification as to where we should be, at a very minimum, raising the bar. That is very important and I thank the witnesses for their contributions.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, for letting me in for just a quick question. Going back to the figure of 100,000 children, is the €770 million cost solely for the 100,000 children? Is it the cost for the 195,000 children? I am just trying to work out that figure of €770 million. What does it equate to in the number of children?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: It would cost €770 million. That is an important one for us to know, Chair, as to what we have to benchmark against when we are looking at making submissions to the Minister. That €770 million is to take 25,000 children out of consistent poverty.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: That income poverty could also be looked at on the means side of things or on disregards because it puts more money, on whatever basis, back into the parents' pockets.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: That is only for a person who is in receipt of the widow's or widower's pension.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Are there others as well?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: They are doing very well.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Not at all.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I am conscious that the Minister needs to leave and that the Minister of State, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, will take over. I call Senator Boyhan.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Before we go forward, I want to get the technicalities right. The Senator is proposing an amendment to amendment No. 1. Is the amendment seconded?

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Actually, we have time, so I invite the Senator to take his time.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Seeing as we have no other Senators offering contributions, we will now move on.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Yesterday was a proud day for us in Portumna, where we opened the historic courthouse. That was thanks to the investment of rural regeneration and development fund, RRDF, moneys. Some €3.2 million was spent on it, of which €2.9 million was allocated from the Department. This goes back to the then Minister, Michael Ring, fighting hard for recognition of the need to invest in...

Seanad: Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Leader of the House for ensuring we are having statements on this today. They are timely. I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to appear before us to allow us the opportunity to speak about what we witnessed on "RTÉ Investigates". It is unfortunate that we have to rely on a television programme to do the job of HIQA. If we are to talk about the elephant in...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: We have no other Senators offering so I call the Minister to conclude.