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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the important work carried out by all Clinical Placement Coordinators. Their work is of significant value to our services. Recent increases applied to the Clinical Nurse/ Midwife Manager 2 (CNM/CMM) scale were a result of the implementation of recommendation 45 of the Expert Review Body (ERB) on Nursing and Midwifery and Labour Court recommendation...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...benefiting individual communities as well as their broader regions and catchment areas. Groups and projects supported by my Department deliver on a range of objectives. Some groups and projects work to address societal issues such as isolation and deprivation, while others aim to enhance local lives and livelihoods with material improvements to their areas through local and community...

Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Matt Carthy: ...Brennan, his family and friends and representatives of the farm organisations. Some facts are in dispute but this is what we know. The Brennan family ran a successful farm that was considered to be top-notch by anyone who ever saw it. Then problems began to emerge at the same time as activities taking place in a nearby factory. Animals got sick. Milk yield dramatically reduced....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Not yet, no. I will wait until I go over that side, and then we will do it. As the Minister of State knows, FASD - and he might not know of it but I will talk to it anyway - is foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It is an underrecognised condition in Ireland. Compared to other jurisdictions like Canada and New Zealand, we are way behind in dealing with it and providing funding and...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (4 Jul 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: I thank colleagues for their time today and for their contributions to the debate, which has been very useful and thoughtful. I note that there appears to be broad support for the Bill. The Government will obviously be supporting it. We have heard from several Independent Members and from the Social Democrats. We will see where other Members and parties in the Opposition are but I want to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 69 and 70 together. As has been stated on numerous occasions, the Government is committed to the reform of the TV licence. A long-term funding model is needed to deliver effective reform and ensure that a secure, sustainable model of funding is put in place for our public service media. The Government is committed to the introduction of a new sustainable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I do not disagree with the Deputy. We have to have really good quality public transport bus stations and Parnell Place bus station clearly does not meet that criterion. That is recognised by the fact that a detailed design and assessment has been done, an estimate of the cost and a due scheduled investment so that the works start the year after next. I would prefer them to start next year....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy’s sense of frustration and with his sense of vision and opportunity here. I will commend my Department to accelerate the various different measures we need to make, and not just my Department but others as well. The underlying reasoning behind what the Deputy says, namely, economic gain and savings for householders, as well as improved emissions, is very real....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Eamon Ryan: I absolutely agree. We have to provide good quality public transport and transport services for all our people. I deeply regret that the local hackney pilot scheme was not successful. The Deputy is correct about that. The uptake was far lower than we wanted. We will review that and come back with further iterations. When something does not work, we can at least learn why it did not....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: .... The publication, as part of the strategic environmental assessment, SEA, of the review gave the broad outline of what is contained within it. I do not expect significant changes. It will go to the Government this week and to the northern administration and will be cleared this month. Also, in advance of it being finally cleared by the Government, we have commissioned the European...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (4 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Ossian Smyth: I thank Senator Gallagher and the Seanad for giving me the opportunity to address this issue on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. For eligible public health sector employees suffering from long Covid, a temporary 12-month special scheme of paid leave was introduced in July 2022. This was on the foot of the withdrawal of access to the then Department of Public Expenditure and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Data Centres (4 Jul 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I thank Senator Byrne for raising this topic. Ireland has attracted the best data centre and tech companies in the world. It is a really important relationship, and the Government continues to work with the sector towards a secure and decarbonised energy future which will enable the twin transitions of digitisation and decarbonisation of our economy and our society. However, data centres,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Citizens' Assembly (4 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...on the Citizens' Assembly on Education, but I have brought the issue up many times with the Minister for Education. As I understand it from the Department of Education, it has referred the matter to the Department of an Taoiseach which is why I have addressed this Commencement matter to that Department. We know from previous citizens' assemblies such as the Citizens' Assembly on Climate...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2024)

Eugene Murphy: I extend my congratulations to the people who run the National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park House. They have just been given a Traveller's Choice award by Tripadvisor, which is the world's largest travel guidance platform. When we consider that the top 10% of attractions globally receive these awards based on reviews from the previous year, this represents a huge recognition for the...

Seanad: Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I take the opportunity to record my thanks to all Members who engaged as part of the wider deliberative process. I extend my thanks to the Charities Regulator, which has worked closely with my Department in the preparation of this important legislation. In particular, I acknowledge the contributions of the community and voluntary sector, including The Wheel, the Charities Institute Ireland...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Mr. John McDonagh: Yes, we have started the work in terms of working through the different options and looking at the procurement part around getting designers to help us to map out what that might look like.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 26 and 150 together. Yes. I am of course concerned that transport emissions continue to rise. This sector was always going to be the hardest one to reduce emissions given that it is so closely linked to population and economic growth and decades of dispersed settlement patterns that favour the car. As evidenced in recent reports from the likes of the...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Butler: I do not know where to start. I will give a quick explanation of the fair deal scheme because some of that has been lost in the context of what has been said. The scheme was introduced in this country in 2009, which was before I entered this House. Deputies Shortall and Naughten were here at the time. I am not sure who else was a Deputy at that time. It was introduced in 2009. The whole...

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Danny Healy-Rae: You are chipping away at it now day by day. First the migration pact and now joining PESCO. Our neutrality will be gone with what you are at. You have to be honest with the people. Why did you not hold a referendum? You talked before about getting rid of the triple lock. You know what you are doing but you are not telling the Defence Forces. This will affect them and jeopardise them....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Mr. Brendan Gleeson: I thank the Chairman for this invitation to address the committee regarding the Department's Statement of Strategy 2023-2026. I thank him also for introducing my colleagues. The agriculture, food and marine sectors are extraordinarily important in an Irish context. In 2023, they accounted for 6.5% of employment, or more than 173,000 jobs, and €18.28 billion...