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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. It worked in New York, where it was known as the broken windows approach. It was immediate. I met people and saw it in action. Will the Minister re-examine the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 42. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her Department’s plans, if any, to support the establishment and continued work of community councils across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26446/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: This question concerns the establishment and work of community councils throughout the country. I am sure the Minister of State will agree that these are a very valuable and important resource, which are very often administered under the umbrella of Muintir na Tíre. What are his plans to support the establishment and continue the work of these bodies, especially if they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Does he agree that there does not seem to be a clear policy with respect to community councils at, dare I say it, parish level? We are talking about LCDCs, which are at the level of the county or municipal district. Does he agree that we need to start drilling down to more localised bodies and looking at supporting those? Does he have any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: It may very well be that the very areas the Minister of State has mentioned are those that need the most support. If small local groups are already established, they are well on their way to drawing down grants, supports and so on. Does he agree that where there is nothing at all and where there is no local initiative, we need to put a structure in place whereby somebody goes into an area...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 26 September 2023, the amount of funding made available and drawn down to date under the rural regeneration and development fund on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26445/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: This question has to do with funding being made available by the Department but not being drawn down or only being drawn down after an awfully long time while costs increase dramatically in the meantime. I have highlighted one particular case with the Minister but there are many projects on the Department's desk where funding has been made available but has not been drawn down yet. What is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I am glad this project is moving forward. If funding was granted in 2021 and it will not be ready until 2026, that is quite a while to wait. I understand that there are structural issues. The second question I asked was whether there are many other such projects in the Department where funding was granted quite a considerable while ago but where...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I have a final supplementary. Given the amount of time that has elapsed since this project was initially grant funded, the costs have invariably gone up. Is the Minister open to making further moneys available to the project if required?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and am sorry that I missed it but I was in the Chamber dealing with another matter. A few things came up here. I am interested in the private retirement communities mentioned in the witnesses' publication. A whole list of step-down models was also mentioned in that regard. My impression is that we do not have a huge take-up on the retirement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I also have visited them and I was impressed with the quality of life and the reports I got from the residents. They were happy because they were no longer lonely. They had companionship, friendship, community and fun and their lives had changed completely. This was in contrast to living on their own and heating their own house, which they did not need. There is a business model there for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I have a final question. It was mentioned there will be a global shortage of 10 million healthcare workers by 2030. Does Dr. McGann have any figures on what the shortage in Ireland will be? Right throughout her publication and submission, she mentioned that even with money having been made available, there has been difficulty in getting workers. They just are not coming forward. This may...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the amounts made available, and drawn down to date, to put in place bypasses for Castlemartyr and Killeagh on the N25 in east Cork; to report on the progress made and work done on this project to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26646/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Topical Issue No. 3 of 29 May 2024, to outline the amounts made available and drawn down to date, to put safety measures in place on the N25 national road between Midleton and Carrigtwohill, County Cork; the works, if any, that have taken place to address safety and capacity issues on this section of carriageway; and if he...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024, which is almost through the Seanad. Will the Government give consideration to enacting that Bill so we can have a referendum on it? When might a referendum be held?

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I think we should write to the Minister and get an up-to-date report on the matter straightaway.

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: If a jumbo jet with 500 people were to crash in the Atlantic Ocean tonight and all the passengers drowned, it would make headline news tomorrow. Last year, the equivalent of six jumbo jets full of people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to cross into Europe. These were desperate people getting on coffin ships. We had this happen in our own history. Some 186,000 people tried to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with respect to the payment of non-EU third-level fees by Irish citizens educated and currently living outside of the EU; if he has considered any changes in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27020/24]