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Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tá muid ag baint leasú Uimh. 58 go dtí 61.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tá.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tairgim leasú Uimh. 62: Ar leathanach 35, líne 4, “2012 trí” a scriosadh agus “2012, i bhfo-alt (1), trí” a chur ina ionad.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tairgim leasú Uimh. 63: Ar leathanach 35, líne 6, “i bhfo-alt (1)” a scriosadh.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tairgim leasú Uimh. 64: Ar leathanach 35, i ndiaidh líne 6, an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach: “Leasú ar an Acht um Chosaint Sonraí, 2018 15. Leasaítear an tAcht um Chosaint Sonraí, 2018— (a) in alt 39(3)— (i) trí “de Pharlaimint na hEorpa, d’údarás áitiúil nó comhalta arna thoghadh...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tairgim leasú Uimh. 65: Ar leathanach 7, líne 11, “do leasú an Achta um Chosaint Sonraí, 2018;” a chur isteach i ndiaidh “2012;”.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Go luath.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tá a lán obair bhaile le déanamh.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Educational Sector Workers (ESWs) who wish to avail of income support while temporarily laid-off during the school breaks can apply for a jobseeker’s payment. They must satisfy all the qualifying conditions to receive a payment. This includes completing the relevant claim application forms and supporting documentation a in a timely manner while also being available for full-time work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department sources IT equipment through the Office of Government Procurement (OGP). OGP have established a range of centralised procurement arrangements for use by public bodies. These centralised procurement arrangements facilitate efficient procurement practice, optimise value-for-money, and support public bodies in meeting their obligations to consider more strategic outcomes...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Under the law as currently enacted, entitlement to a Widows, Widowers or Surviving Civil Partner’s Contributory pension is only available to a surviving partner who was party to a marriage or civil partnership. On 22nd January 2024, the Supreme Court delivered its judgment on the entitlement of an unmarried cohabitant to a Widower's Contributory Pension. The Supreme Court...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. My department provides the funding directly to the schools. All schools who wish to avail of funding...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, my Department may make Additional Needs Payments to help meet essential expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income. This is an overarching term used to refer to exceptional and urgent needs payments, and certain supplements to assist with ongoing or recurring costs that cannot be met from the customer’s own resources,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 125 and 128 together. This Government recognises the additional costs associated with having a disability and is committed to improving outcomes for disabled people. In the Programme for Government, we have committed toIntroduce a permanent Annual Cost of Disability Support Payment with a view to incrementally increasing this payment.Reform the Disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: This Government recognises the additional costs associated with having a disability and is committed to improving outcomes for disabled people. That is why the Programme for Government has committed to introducing a permanent Annual Cost of Disability Support Payment with a view to incrementally increasing this payment. My Department is currently examining the best way of delivering an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: This Government recognises the additional costs associated with having a disability and is committed to improving outcomes for disabled people. In the Programme for Government, we have committed to introducing a permanent Annual Cost of Disability Support Payment and, to progressively increase weekly Disability Payments. This will build on progress made over the last number of years,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: Ancillary benefits such as the Household Benefits Package, Fuel Allowance, and Free Travel, with a combined budget of over €800 million in 2025, provide significant support to people with disabilities to cover household and transport costs. The Household Benefits package and Fuel Allowance payment provides much needed assistance to qualifying household with their energy costs....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Government recognises the additional costs associated with having a disability and is committed to improving outcomes for disabled people. In the Programme for Government we have committed toIntroduce a permanent Annual Cost of Disability Support Payment with a view to incrementally increasing this payment.Reform the Disability Allowance Payment and remove anomalies in the current means...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Chief Appeals Officer has advised me that this appeal was assigned to an Appeals Officer for consideration on the 9th May...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Contracts (14 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Government does not support the Boycott, Divest and Sanction approach, while fully recognising that individuals and organisations have the right to make their own decisions in this regard. With regard to how my Department procures goods and services, it is my Department’s policy to follow the guidance of the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) and to utilise the procurement...