Results 181-200 of 3,482 for lottery

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Cathal Berry: ...of home care, I would mention the disability sector. I contend that people with disabilities are even more deserving of State support than the able-bodied, because of the particular hand that the lottery of life has dealt them. The second point I would like to raise is on what I would call the unseen health service, which is so important. We are all familiar with the seen health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues in Higher and Further Education: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...education, HE, but we need to do more. We must ensure that people who start a healthcare course - I am thinking particularly of nursing - in a college of further education are not then put into a lottery to decide if they can go on to degree level but are instead guaranteed that what they are doing from day one in FET counts towards their ultimate destination of a nursing degree. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (20 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ... National Shared Services Office Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No* No Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No N/A (no queries received) Public Appointments Service Yes No Yes ...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...they are still functioning. Energy companies have been profiteering in this country for well over a year. The ESB doubled its profits to more than €800 million last year, literally winning the lottery every day in terms of profits. The ideology of the Green Party is to keep electricity prices high so as to reduce consumption.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

John Brady: ...across the State, where ordinary people are out every Saturday participating in them. The Dublin marathon has become so popular it is nearly as difficult to get a place in it as it is to win the lottery. It is up there with all the major marathons around the world as regards people looking to participate in it. It is also an exciting time in boxing. I will unashamedly name one of my...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (15 Jun 2023)

John McGahon: ...clinics - to do that but there is a shortage of those specialist clinics. This is not a case of a supply issue or a staff shortage. To be honest, the end-of-life treatment you get is almost a lottery based on your geographical location. If you are in Louth and Meath, we will not send in public health nurses to give pain relief medicine such as injections, syringe-based treatments and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (13 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...will be considered. The table below sets out the position with regard to the bodies under the aegis of my Department. The Deputy may wish to note the State Laboratory, the Office of the National Lottery Regulator and the National Shared Services Office do not use or post on social media platforms. Bodies % of relevant social media posts that included closed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (13 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...rights in accordance with Public Sector Duty principles”. State Laboratory The State Laboratory does not hold an anti-racism policy which can be accessed by the public, noting that the State Laboratory does not provide services to the public. Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery The ORNL does not have a specific anti-racism policy but captures its inclusive ethos in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (13 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...2022. The State Laboratory employs industry best practices around remote working and remote access to State Lab ICT systems and data.All reasonable safeguards are in place to protect confidential and personal data. Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery The ORNL does not provide services to the public and therefore holds a very limited amount of personal information of members...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (13 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...for the Governance of State Bodies 2016' is as follows:Public Appointments Service - Outsourced service was €662,294 and project consultancy was €292,261.Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery - Consulting services was €215,962 and business as usual outsourcing was €213,506.National Shared Services Office will respond directly to the Deputy.The State...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Jun 2023)

Mary Butler: There are several mechanisms whereby community voluntary organisations can seek funding. Organisations can apply to HSE Mental Health Services for national lottery grant funding through the relevant local Community Health Organisation. Details can be found at: www2.hse.ie/services/national-lottery-grants/national-lotter y-grants.html. In addition, organisations provide mental health...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Bodies (1 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...gov.ie Vote 19 Office of The Ombudsman Elaine Cassidy riar@ombudsman.ie Non-Voted – Levy Funded Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery Carol Boate oireachtas@rnl.ie

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (31 May 2023)

Emer Higgins: ...Newcastle recently and there's no public health nurse situated here. Yet, if that mother had not moved and lived somewhere else, her baby would be getting those checkups. It is like a postcode lottery. I met with HSE officials on Monday last and they were keen to stress that this is not an issue of investment. The money is there. The issue is the pipeline of nurses. I have been...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...to a certain cohort in limited circumstances. It is quite coincidental, as the Minister knows, that the Bill has been brought before the House on the fifth anniversary of repeal because of the lottery system we have. Nevertheless the Minister is right to say that if we match this with Marie O'Shea's report the Bill goes further. That is true. That does not mean if the Bill was dealt...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...more than 4,600 children on waiting lists for assessments of need and over 10,000 waiting over 12 months for initial contact with a children's disability network team, CDNT. There is also the issue of geographic lotteries, with considerable variations in services, service qualities and waiting lists. To give one example, figures from December show that CHO 4, the Cork and Kerry region,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I cannot wait to engage with Revenue and get that money. I also won the Spanish lottery last year. Another person contacted me to ask could they put a couple of million in my bank account. Most of us are able to look at that sort of correspondence and think if it is too good to be true then it is. There are others ones, however. Revenue and eFlow are reputable organisations. I also have...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Ms Jacinta Brack: In terms of the initial rolling out of that scheme being a lottery, a lot of the time we are looking at how Travellers are not included in those more mainstream strategies, research samples and national population samples, and there would be a merit to having a cohort of some of those or setting a quota within all of those strategies. For instance, I know offhand of two...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Robert Troy: ...we are being left with a situation where we are dealing with vast numbers of people who are coming to our countries and who are seeking asylum. I have often said, and I firmly believe, that the lottery of birth determines so many of our outcomes. It determines our outcomes even in terms of being born into a functioning family or into one that is not affected by poverty. It clearly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...and have their own salary. Will the witnesses speak to that a little more? Is there is a geographical disparity in the availability of resources throughout the country? Do we have that postcode lottery we often talk about in the context of disability? I congratulate the NCBI on the Bookshare Ireland initiative. It sounds great and certainly deserves support. Finally, I was not clear...