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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The SuperValu Tidy Towns competition is a unique volunteer-led programme that makes a hugely positive contribution in communities across Ireland. Ahead of the competition launch each year, officials in my Department meet with SuperValu, the main sponsor of the competition, and with our highly skilled and competent panel of adjudicators. My Department's role is to facilitate the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...grants are successful and popular and have been on the go for a long time, but we had no dedicated fund for community centres. During Covid, we saw how they did not have the same opportunities to raise money. Like a house, if you do not keep doing bits every year, it starts to fall into disrepair. It was important that we be able to provide some assistance. We all know the value of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Mr. John Field: It was spent on things like student services or medical services for students, which are outsourced. They come through that. That is a doctor, effectively, and we pay that. They are professionals. It includes graphic design costs, which involves professionals. They would not be providing advisory services but a professional service. There are digital marketing costs...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Martin Browne: ...school places for children with special educational needs. What is the office's current view on how the provisions for these schools are organised each year, because we get it every year? It is like the school buses. It is absolutely crazy to wait nearly until school starts before starting to plan. What can be done better or what better planning would the ombudsman recommend to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (9 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: I propose to take Questions Nos. 65 and 73 together. Over one year since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan, the main parties to the violence are no closer to a negotiated solution. Fighting continues between military factions: the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The conflict is having devastating humanitarian, human rights, and regional security consequences. ...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (9 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: Just over a year since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan, the principal military belligerents, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), are no closer to working for a negotiated solution. The conflict continues to have devastating humanitarian, human rights, and regional security consequences. Both parties are significantly impeding humanitarian access, in addition to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 535 of 30 April 2024, if she will review the legislation for sexual offences against children where a perpetrator lives very close to the child in question, regardless of whether the crime was a first offence, and where the child is likely to see the perpetrator; if she will work to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...will quote from the response the Minister of State gave. He stated, "I know that my colleague the Minister of State with responsibility for disability services, Deputy Rabbitte, is fully committed to the continued development and enhancement of our children’s disability services through the implementation of the progressing disability services", and it carried on like that. I then...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue matter this evening. Tubber is a very small village situated right on the Clare-Galway border. It is a few kilometres south of Gort and a few kilometres north of Crusheen. It is a beautiful village. I am sure that as a Mayo man, the Minister of State can almost imagine how rural, scenic and beautiful Tubber is. In 1852, like...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Matt Shanahan: ...and wish him the best of luck in his position. I will speak on affordable housing and housing in general. We have an affordability issue across the board. There is no doubt we have entered into a very different period in the past five to seven years, particularly post-pandemic, as regards the economic and regulatory environment and sustainability and affordability. A large number of...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024) See 10 other results from this debate

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is unclear to me, because I did not have time to check, and this is why I am posing the question, whether the Deputy voted for or against the budget in which we gave not just another tax cut to working families but the third successive tax cut. Cumulatively, these lifted 220,000 working people out of the upper tax bracket. Perhaps, then, if we extend the measure this year we will be able...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Simon Harris: To Deputy Tully, regarding the point she made about the working family payment and the one-parent family and the challenges she outlined that present when the youngest child reaches the age of seven, these are matters we consider in the context of the budget. We have taken several measures to help remove poverty traps and cliff edges. We have also tried to take a number of measures,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputies for raising these issues. I might go in reverse order and start with Deputy Conway-Walsh. I am happy to take that up. I have not seen the letter. If the Deputy wants to provide it, I will be happy to take a look at it. My general experience with the domiciliary care allowance is, as the Deputy said, that the structure of the scheme is worded in such a way as not to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to raise an issue around joint family visa applicants. Like so many of these issues that we get into our offices it goes from the particular to the general once one starts looking at it. A constituent got in touch with my office. He is working at University Hospital Waterford and he is well integrated into both the workforce and the wider community and wants his wife to come and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McNamara for raising two important matters and giving me an opportunity to respond. In relation to the first one, which is a very serious matter, the Government's response to this is to pass the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill. Of course, not knowing the specifics of the individual case raised, but taking it as an example of a broader issue, we saw...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Immigration Policy (8 May 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank Senator Keogan for raising this matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee. As the Senator will be aware, the Attorney General provides legal advice to the Government and this advice is subject to legal professional privilege in the same way as the legal advice provided to a private client by any solicitor or barrister. The proper operation of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (8 May 2024)

Robbie Gallagher: ...One in four Irish women has experienced physical or sexual violence by a partner or non-partner from the age of 15. As a male, I am truly shocked, embarrassed and sickened by those statistics.The men of Ireland need to take a good, long hard look at themselves. Unfortunately, when women find themselves in situations like this, they need refuge and protection from the State and need...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Transport (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Aisling Dolan: With the withdrawal of Aircoach from 8 April 2024, and the X20 service in 2021, on the Dublin to Galway route, those services have been stopped. We currently only have Citylink, which goes every two hours between Dublin and Galway and services the towns between those two cities. This Commencement matter was intended for the Minister for Transport. I am frustrated. I raised this in 2021...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Paddy Burke: I welcome our guests from Kenya as well and I hope they have a very successful trip to Ireland. I will join with the Cathaoirleach and other Members in proposing a vote of sympathy to the late Michael D'Arcy Snr., who was a former Member of this House and the Dáil, a Minister of State, and a county and town councillor. He had a distinguished political career over a very long period....

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Victor Boyhan: I will take up the option of covering off the three sections here and now. I welcome the Minister of State and thank her for her time and her commitment to this area, which I know is a major priority for her. I thank Senator Clonan for introducing the Bill and also the co-sponsors of the Bill, which includes the Independents, Civil Engagement Group, Labour Party, Sinn Féin and Green...