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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I will raise a few issues with the Leader today. I have just come from the social protection committee where I once again raised the matter of the housing adaptation grant. The reason I raised it is that I have dealt with three cases in the past two weeks. In one case, a woman has just come from hospital where she spent six months. Thankfully, Clare County Council has approved a grant to...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Browne. I thank my colleagues in the Labour Party, and particularly Senator Moynihan, for preparing the motion. Not for the first time I will mention Garda Sean O'Mahony. He is my local community Garda. I have mentioned him previously in the House. He is on the ground day in and day out. He has built up relationships with everybody including all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome our guests. Unfortunately, but also thankfully, my family has had to use the night nursing service twice. I wish to put on the record the great job that night nurses and the Irish Cancer Society do. It is important to acknowledge that work. The harrowing stories the witnesses have told us about families with that experience brought it back home to me. A major issue, and one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: No. I thank Ms O’Connor for coming back in because I think the credit unions can play a massive role here. I understand the committee will pursue that matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome our guests today. I have a number of questions and I will start with the fuel allowance. In the past week I have come across the case of a means-tested fuel allowance for those over the age of 70. The problem is that the person is assessed on gross income. I am told this is correct and is in Article 8 of Part 1 of SI 142 of 2007, which I received from some very helpful people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I have one for Mr. Halvey. Where there is an air-to-water heat pump but the other works have not been carried out, will they be prioritised? These projects are building up because air-to-water heat pumps simply do not work if a house does not have the total system. Following the reviews being carried out by the Department, will we concentrate on those houses that need a full wraparound...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I will indeed. I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome our guests. Mr. Mullins started off by talking about 550,000 households in energy poverty. The figure our guests gave is that 75,000 now have EnergyCloud to help them with that. How long would it take to reach in the region of 550,000, particularly in light of the organisation's current outlays, the constraints in relation to personnel, etc.? If it is 75,000 since 2021, how...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am taking this debate on behalf of my colleague, Senator Moynihan, but I put on record again my own call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, which is badly needed and urgent. Senator Currie spoke of helplessness and that is reflected by so many people I meet day-in and day-out in Kildare. It is reflected by the figures cited this evening...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, to the House.

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. I thank Senator Martin for drafting this Bill down and asking me to cosign it. Unfortunately, technology, I believe, got in the way of that happening. However, I am happy to speak in support of the Bill. That this is the second time Senator Martin has brought a Bill of this nature before the House. Obviously, and as other Members have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome our guests today. I wish to raise an old chestnut. Representatives of the SEAI were before us last week and I raised the issue of housing grants. I acknowledge that the Department of housing is not before us today but I seek a comment on this from the Department of the environment. The issue raised with me most commonly is that of grants for windows and doors. I asked the SEAI...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I thank the Chair. I will leave it at that for today.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I, too, welcome the Minister of State to the House today to have what is an important conversation for a growing number of people in south Kildare on the issue of special school places. I sought this Commencement matter this morning because it was announced by the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, in early December that four new special schools will be established this coming September and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate that reply. The most important thing we can take from it is that we will have a special school in south Kildare in September. That is the message that needs to go out to the many families who ring me and all public representatives in south Kildare because, as I said in my introduction, when you hear the stories you realise the stress on families....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I want to raise two issues today. The first is about school places. I know there is a meeting tonight regarding the lack of school places in Properous in mid-Kildare. This is an ongoing issue that I have raised. I ask that a debate be organised with the Minister for Education. The specific issue I want to raise on school places today relates to Scoil Mhuire in Ballymore Eustace, in my...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome the Minister.We welcome the Bill and its attempts to reform the social welfare system with regard to maintenance. We are told the Bill is designed to give legislative effect to two changes in the previously mentioned social welfare system so that child welfare maintenance payments may no longer be assessed as means and the discontinuation of the liable relative provisions. As other...