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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 28 February 2023, what land has been made available to the OPW, by local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46957/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how his Department will cope with the reduction in its budget announced in budget 2024 and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46954/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: How will the Department cope with the reduction in its budgetary allocation announced in budget 2024?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The budget leads me to think a lot about the recession of 2008 and how this country got back on its feet. Farmers were instrumental in that. Since then, a lot has happened - Brexit, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis. We are not spending the corporation tax. I know the budget delivers an allocation that is reduced by 10% for agriculture. It is disgraceful that at a time when all the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate the information the Minister has provided but I also want to talk about late payments. Basic income support for sustainability, BISS, payments were a week late and areas of natural constraint, ANC, payments were a month late. The latter were advertised as advance payments but, in fact, came later in the year than their predecessor payments. Farmers are financially drained. An...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Road safety is an issue of acute concern for every Member of this House. As we head into the bank holiday weekend, we are all thinking of the 155 lives lost on Irish roads since the start of this year, an increase of 36 on this time last year. My thoughts are with all of those families today. In the context of fatalities, I want to mention a section of the N67 in Clare. This road sees a...

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I am delighted to speak on this motion, and I want to thank the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters for its report on aligning disability services with the UNCRPD. First, I want to commend the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte for her comments in her statement this evening, specifically on the call for holding Ministers to account but, more importantly, how that process allows...

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I apologise. I will quickly move on to my last point. Although there were 70,000 actual hours allocated last year in respect of PA services, that is after 80,000 hours were lost in 2021 with an increase of 46,000 in 2022. In real numbers, the increase in 2023, after the restoration of previously cut hours, is only around 36,000 additional hours secured. I am hopeful this will be increased...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on his Department’s allocation of moneys to the Department of Health in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46955/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on delayed payments to farmers as a result of CAP 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46953/23]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I commend this motion. In the very short time available to me, I am compelled to focus on emergency accommodation and the lack of capacity in County Clare. The most recent statistics show there were 296 presentations to the homeless action team in Clare in September while there are only 92 places in emergency accommodation in total. We are in the reality of waiting lists for emergency...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 43. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on a review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48553/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Will the Minister comment on his Department's review of the equality Acts? I would be grateful if he were to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate that information. We need this ground to be included in any revision of the equality Acts. Recent budgets have further divided society. Recent research on deprivation, carried out by Pobal, highlighted that County Clare is marginally above average in terms of deprivation, with Kilrush being extremely disadvantaged and having a lone parent rate of almost 50%. Slightly fewer...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate the Minister's remarks and note he mentioned his passion on this issue. The main point raised at the event I attended last night was that many of the challenges experienced by individuals enduring disadvantage, exclusion or poverty are beyond their capacity to address. Last year, Deputy Andrews and I brought forward a Bill to add a tenth discrimination ground on the basis of...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I commend the Labour Party on bringing forward this terrific motion and I am happy to support it. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has committed to delivering 22 million hours of home care support next year and that she has lauded that this will be the most ever delivered. The question is: will it be delivered? Will the fundamental issues around payment, social welfare payments as...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: While I welcome that the Taoiseach condemned the actions of Hamas, as do I, he spoke yet again about how the Israeli response needs to be proportionate. That ship has truly sailed. Cutting off electricity and leaving babies in a neonatal intensive care unit to die before they can even get a chance to live is not proportionate. Genocide is not proportionate. Breaking international human...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how he plans to tackle significant backlogs with respect to assessments of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48552/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason "pandemic" is defined in the Electoral Reform Act 2022 as an outbreak of disease which has been declared by the World Health Organization to be a pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47617/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that all local authority winter homeless initiatives/additional winter capacity are now open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48569/23]