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- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister will answer during his response.
- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I remind the Deputy that we were on the second round.
- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Seven minutes were on the clock but we were on the second round of two minutes each.
- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If you could finish.
- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We had the first run-through of seven minutes-----
- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----and when the Minister responded, we were on the second-----
- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am informed you are entitled to seven minutes. It is no surprise that you know the rules better.
- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Amendments Nos. 4 and 15 to 19, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very briefly.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she could provide an update on the plans for the site recently acquired at the school (details supplied); if the site will be used to expand play areas for the children in the school; if part of the site will be used for additional classrooms including an ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5051/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the pyrite remedial works at the school (details supplied); when they are due to commence; if they will involve the full removal of all pyrite from the foundations of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5052/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the extension to a school (details supplied) which her Department previously committed to building, is proceeding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5053/23]
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister and her officials for the very comprehensive briefing document, which runs to 101 pages. I wish to follow up on the point Deputy Kerrane made about the mandatory retirement age. I know it is a continuing sore point for many people who are made to retire at 65 and then do not have access to the State pension until 66. I would appreciate if we could move on that. On...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Chairman may direct me if I am under the wrong heading. The Minister said that €363 million has been allocated to the working family payment. I presume the Department has modelled the projected demand for that. There has been significant expansion of the thresholds. Are all of those who are entitled to this payment aware of it, applying for it and receiving it, or is there an...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: When Revenue and the Department were designing these increased thresholds, they must surely have had an idea of the number of people that would be brought into the net by that expansion. An awareness campaign is important, but do we have any indication of the number of people who have already activated their new entitlements?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes, of course.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I asked how many people can benefit from the change.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Do they receive non-contributory pensions?
- Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: First Stage (31 Jan 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body, to be known in the Irish language as an Coimisiún um Ghlúnta sa Todhchaí or in the English language as the Commission for Future Generations for the purpose of reporting to the Government in relation to the establishment of an Office of Ombudsman for Future...