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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Clár Forbartha Áitiúil (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Tacaíonn Clár um Sheirbhísí don Phobal (CSP) mo Roinne le breis agus 420 eagraíocht phobalbhunaithe, chun seirbhísí áitiúla a sholáthar trí mhúnla fiontair shóisialta. Soláthraíonn CSP ranníocaíocht chómhaoinithe bhliantúil i dtreo gach post coibhéis lánaimseartha (CL) a fhaigheann...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department continues to liaise with stakeholders in communities around the country including the Local Authorities, Local Community Development Committees, Public Participation Networks and Local Development Companies to ensure that supports provided are timely and appropriate to the needs of those communities. While the schemes administered by my Department have a consistent, ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department continues to liaise with stakeholders in communities around the country including the Local Authorities, Local Community Development Committees, Public Participation Networks and Local Development Companies to ensure that supports provided are timely and appropriate to the needs of those communities. While the schemes administered by my Department have a consistent, ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: In August 2019, the Department of Rural and Community Development launched Sustainable, Inclusive and Empowered Communities: a five-year strategy to support the community and voluntary sector in Ireland. The Strategy sets a general direction of travel for government policy in relation to community development, local development and the community and voluntary sectors for the coming decade....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Government's five-year strategy to support the community and voluntary sector, Sustainable, Inclusive and Empowered Communities, was published in 2019. This is a whole of government strategy led by my Department, which is implemented collaboratively with the sector through the Cross Sector Group on Local and Community Development. This Strategy plays an important role in seeking to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) is the official source of poverty statistics for Ireland. The most recent survey results in relation to the 2022 survey were published by the CSO on 22 February 2023. Due to the sample sizes involved, poverty data is only available at regional level. However, child poverty data at regional level is not...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department is responsible for a number of national policies aimed at improving the lives of people throughout the country, including Our Rural Future which places an emphasis on building resilience and enhancing participation and inclusion in rural communities. Our Rural Future recognises that some rural populations have a heightened perception of the threat of crime in their areas....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My department's Community Service Programme (CSP) supports over 420 community-based organisations, to provide local services through a social enterprise model. CSP provides an annual co-funding contribution towards each full-time equivalent (FTE) position being supported and, where warranted, towards the cost of employing a manager. Earlier this year, I announced a new Call for...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Functions (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Addressing the issue of individual isolation in communities has become more important than ever before. Many of my Department's policies and funding programmes aim to address social isolation issues in communities, and also deliver benefits by responding to the challenges facing vulnerable individuals. My Department continues to provide funding to tackle social isolation and support those in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regulatory and Poverty Impact Assessments (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I published the General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill on 29 April 2022. This General Scheme was subsequently submitted to the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands for Pre-Legislative scrutiny. This Bill is to provide for a number of amendments to the Charities Act 2009. The aim of the proposed amendments is to improve the ability of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (4 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department’s mission is to support vibrant, inclusive and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. In delivering on its mission, my Department provides a wide range of strategic interventions, funding programmes and policies that ensure rural and urban communities continue to thrive. This includes community and voluntary organisations that provide vital services to our...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: As Minister of State with responsibility in three Departments, I will use my brief time to touch on some of the key budget 2024 measures in each of those Departments. Last year, with the outbreak of the Ukraine war, when Ukrainian families flowed into our communities throughout the country, the community and voluntary sector stood up to the plate. One of the key groups of organisations that...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (10 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Charities Regulatory Authority (the ‘Charities Regulator’) was established in October 2014 pursuant to the Charities Act 2009. The Authority is the State organisation responsible for registering and regulating all of Ireland’s charities, with the mandate to promote good governance practice. The Charities Regulator also engages in the provision of services to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (12 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of any regulation or policy that governs the provision of ATMs in public places that are not physically connected to a commercial bank; and if there is any obligation or regulation on the providers of such ATMs to ensure these ATMs are not removed, thus potentially leaving a community without access to cash. [44554/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: We are coming towards the end of a review of the rural social scheme. There has been very intense engagement on it. I have attended a number of workshops and had a lot of discussions with supervisors, participants and the implementing bodies involved as well. It is an amazing scheme. I have seen what it does. It not only provides services and gives an opportunity for people to engage in...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I want to open by calling for an immediate ceasefire by all parties to the current outbreak of hostilities in Gaza and Israel; the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages taken by Hamas; and the immediate turning back on of water and electricity to Gaza and the opening of a humanitarian corridor. I also want to condemn the horrific actions of Hamas on 7 October. But the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department is responsible for the Seniors Alert Scheme which encourages community support for vulnerable older people in our communities through the provision of personal monitored alarms to enable them to live securely in their homes with confidence, independence and peace of mind. Funding is available under the Scheme towards the purchase, by a registered community-based organisation, of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (18 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department's Community Services Programme (CSP) supports over 420 community-based organisations, to provide local services through a social enterprise model. CSP provides an annual co-funding contribution towards each full-time equivalent (FTE) position being supported, and, where warranted, towards the cost of employing a manager. A call for applications for additional staff support...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I thank Deputy Connolly for the question. Applicants for international protection who are awaiting a decision on their application are offered accommodation by the International Protection Accommodation Service, IPAS, of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Those who accept such accommodation are provided with material reception conditions, including food...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I thank Deputy Connolly. I understand the information she is looking for. I am here in my role with the Department of Social Protection. This Department's main role is administering the payment. I can state from my role in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth that funding has been secured for a new child payment. Beyond this there is not a large amount...