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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Lottery (27 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has been notified of An Post’s decision to sell its share in the National Lottery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18000/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on, this woman, who is working and contributing to Irish society, is stuck in emergency accommodation. I then said that maybe cost-rental housing would be an option but cost rental is a flipping lottery. Somebody who has been four years in emergency accommodation with her child is in a lottery, that is if she can even get information about where the affordable or cost-rental housing is....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (20 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...;24,921 Neil Scott Review of Assessment of Under-represented Groups €14,490 DHR Communications Support for the Schools Project "The Pitch" competition €4,956 Office of the National Lottery Regulator (ORNL) Consultants Purpose Total of Contract Value ...

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Martin Browne: ...of six to 12 weeks, and a six-week wait in Clonmel, is unconscionable. There is an issue with how timely access to justice can depend on geographical location. There is, therefore, a postcode lottery which, again, is a failure of people. In the case of victims of domestic violence, for example, who may seek criminal convictions under the law through the District Court and Circuit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Dr. Pat Matthews: They have to, otherwise it will not happen. It comes back again to the lottery of where a person happens to live. That is wrong and unjust.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...to the fact we pigeonhole students from a young age. By the time they get to fifth and sixth class and are considering which secondary schools to go on to, there is an element of geographic lottery to the range of subjects that are available and to whether the student will be able to study STEM subjects in secondary school. In the experience of Professor McCormack and all our guests, how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

...that is going to happen. We have not seen actual evidence of it that has been put to the Department to date. There is an ability under the regulations, whereby if anybody has applied in the lottery for a particular development another tenant can be taken out of the lottery. That is considered and provided for in the regulations. If those people can go on to buy, we are happy to support...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (18 Apr 2023)

Robert Troy: 443. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the National Lottery requires that small retailers, wishing to be agents of the lottery, put up a lifetime deposit rather than a deposit for only a number of years until they can gauge how business performs at their location. [16550/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in leasing the properties. In the event that the number of eligible applicants exceeds the number of homes available, the provider must select an application at random, using an automated and auditable lottery system, in order to provide an equitable opportunity for all eligible applicants. This scheme’s eligibility criteria remains under review to ensure it remains fit for purpose...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in our society, and the young people here in the Gallery will appreciate and understand this, is the pernicious addiction to gambling. I am not speaking about normal social gambling, the occasional lottery ticket or the bet on Aintree. I am not talking about that kind of gambling but rather, addiction to gambling prejudicing children, homes, marriages, properties, the whole lot. It is a...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ...a notice to quit. She is asking me to help. She is begging and crying, like many families have been. I am sure everybody in this House has experienced similar. I know and she knows that it is a lottery when it comes to trying to find accommodation. Some people will find it, but many will not. The Government still has not answered the question as to where many of those families will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

John Brady: 304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many properties were offered to people through the lottery system in both phase 1 and phase 2 of a cost rental scheme (details supplied) due to insufficient expressions of interest from applications who met the affordability criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15080/23]

Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...if required and introduce at a later stage. The Bill was introduced on First Stage in 2020. That seems a very long time ago, and we are still in the same position. The Bill was selected in the lottery. It proposes a number of simple things. It tries to put in place a statutory underpinning for an inspection and certification regime. We all know the NCT-style system works in our...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023) See 5 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: Is Deputy Carthy's proposal agreed? Agreed. Correspondence No. 1773 B is again from Mr. Moloney, providing information we requested arising from our meeting with the regulator of the national lottery on 24 November. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Deputies Catherine Murphy and Carthy have flagged this matter.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: .... We know that certain perfectly legal organisations are doing this on a bespoke basis. I am looking for a more formalised universal approach to that so it is not subject to the geographical lottery of where someone lives, for example, near Ballymun or near the civic amenity centre where they are collecting the dials for electrical appliances. We could be more ambitious about how we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inadequate Personal Assistance Supports: Discussion (23 Mar 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...is putting the control back with the disabled person. I understand that there is not a limitless pool of resources, but it is possible to design a system that is standardised but that is not based on a lottery in the context of the CHO area. Such a system would ensure that disabled people are empowered and informed to begin to think about what they need, the additional supports they...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Defibrillators Provision (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Byrne: ...from which new applications will be accepted. Defibrillators situated at sports clubs are generally also for community use and I am aware that funding is also available through the HSE’s national lottery grants schemes and other community grants schemes. A number of national governing bodies of sport also have schemes in place to support their club networks in cardiac care,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay. The last correspondence item is No. R1767. This is from Ms Carol Boate, Regulator of the National Lottery, dated 28 February 2023. It provides information on the National Lottery Act 2013 and the national lottery licence. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Munster flagged this and I suggest that we deal with. The...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Robert Troy: ..., she took on the caring role for four grandchildren for a period. I share this story today because I am immensely proud of my mother. I often use a phrase which is widely used and that is the "lottery of birth". I was very fortunate to be born into this family with such an inspirational woman as my mother. There are many people who are not so fortunate. We have a responsibility as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...to dieticians. When you train only 29 dieticians in a year, there is no wonder we have a shortage. The children who apply for the dietician role in the CAO will need 615 and then they will go into a lottery. That is the number of spaces we have. We need far more places on dietetics. It needs to be completely expanded. We need to have a complete suite of measures on this. It is not...