Results 301-320 of 6,185 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We do not have legislation yet; we have a general scheme. If we can get a better sense of when the legislation will come forward, that would be welcome. I appreciate that there are some technical details to be worked out, but the primary issue is which families will be eligible and how long people need to be cohabiting before they are entitled to the payment. If the Minister can answer...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This has been brought to my attention by Good Shepherd Cork, a charity based in Cork and one the Minister of State will be familiar with, that runs shelters such as Edel House, Shanaway House, and others. The issue primarily arises with children as it impacts on their ability to access school and other services. The emergency accommodation could be located far away and might not be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am not convinced by that. Will the Minister of State and his departmental officials meet with Good Shepherd Cork to explore the matter? The service supports families whose children have missed between 50 and 70 school days in an academic year. We have had debates on homelessness and talked about children doing their homework on a hotel bed or in a family hub. These are very challenging...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: People are going to be dispersed and they may be isolated. Surely something more flexible is needed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Will the Minister of State or the officials meet with Good Shepherd Cork?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister of State might take back the request for a meeting to the Department.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place in terms of free travel access for people currently living in emergency accommodation. [37681/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Emergency accommodation is an issue that has been brought up with me by a number of groups. There are pilot programmes running in some areas of the country through which people who are living in emergency accommodation are able to get free travel. Very often, they are provided accommodation that is very far from areas where there might be schools, etc. It is a significant constraint on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there is any potential for her Department to coordinate with other agencies to inquire as to the welfare of a person after lengthy non-collection of payments. [37676/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she intends to take regarding the extent of the backlog in processing disability allowance claims. [37680/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (24 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure that workers in Citizens Information Service (CIS) companies are provided with a pay increase given the length of time since their last pay increase, and if she will provide the funding to the Citizens Information Board to ensure this happens via the CIS companies. [37679/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (18 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: First, I apologise on behalf of Deputy Gould, who was included in this but who is sick with the flu and cannot make it. I, Deputy Barry, Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan and several others, including Deputy Gould, were at a meeting in St. Killian's last week. It was a powerful meeting. Parents should not have to be in this situation but they gave us such testimony about the difference that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (18 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In this place, we understand one needs good governance, schemes and structures but, as the parents have said, there used to be therapists. Until 2019, there were therapists in the school. What they also said, as did the staff and the children, is that they were given a commitment and told to go away and find the therapists. How do we find a way forward in relation to this? How do we make...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (18 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: October or January?

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The plan that has been unveiled by Deputy Kerrane is visionary. It is a really exciting policy that can be a game-changer. Delivering childcare for €10 per child per day is essential and I would emphasise that. This is not a policy that the Minister should implement because it is a good or sensible policy. It is a necessary policy. It has to happen. It is a strategic imperative...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Last weekend the National Ambulance Service announced cuts to staff hours in counties Cork and Kerry that would have led to ambulance bases being closed one day a week. In north Cork, there are five ambulances and one would be lost each day and two on a Wednesday. West Cork has four and would lose one a day. Thankfully, those latest cuts have been shelved, but there is no doubt the service...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (9 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 87.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the revaluation of deferred benefits (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34121/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (9 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 370.To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the moving of the ship Mathew MV, which is docked at Marina Point in Cork Harbour, and which will now be considered the responsibility of the Revenue Commissioners; the way he intends to ensure that this asset is either realised or disposed of, and moved from Cork Harbour.[35538/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 834.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has permitted the sale or intends to permit the sale or approved payment to occupiers to vacate of properties in Somerton Park, Ballinlough, Cork, properties which are pursuant to and under the provisions of a scheme provided for by section 20 of the Housing (Amendment) Act 1948 and the Regulations made thereunder,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 835.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties in Somerton Park, Ballinlough, Cork, properties which are pursuant to and under the provisions of a scheme provided for by section 20 of the Housing (Amendment) Act 1948 and the Regulations made thereunder, including, in particular, Statutory Instrument No. 90 of 1948) that he and his predecessors,...