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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (25 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...s role as guarantor in the dialogues with the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) and the sharing of lessons from both peace processes. Ireland’s support for the implementation of peace in Colombia will be over €5 million this year. We also discussed the strengthening of bilateral relations; trade and investment, including business and human rights and the need for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...the chances of survival in the case of cardiac arrest. Every ten minutes that go by without CPR reduces the chance of survival by 10%. Amazingly in Ireland, which has a population of more than 5 million, only about 80,000 individuals are trained in or know CPR. It is proven that bystander CPR saves lives. Some 70% of cardiac arrests happen in the home, so it is vital that we train...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Michael Desmond: Ireland's inshore sector accounts for approximately 95% of the Irish fishing fleet. All vessels in the sector are less than 18 m in overall length, with the vast majority of them being less than 12 m. The fishing boats in this sector almost all work within 12 nautical miles of the shore line, with some exceptions due to various factors. The sector currently provides...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)

...The Minister also met other stakeholders, including fishing industry representatives and environmental NGOs, to give a further opportunity to stakeholders to outline their positions. He presented the SIA to this committee on 25 October 2023. Regarding the Commission proposals highlighted by the committee, I will begin with COM (2023) 587. This is the proposal for the "main" TAC and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (24 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...Minister of Ireland’s commitment to enhancing our support to the implementation of the 2016 Agreement and the Total Peace dialogues in Colombia, including by increasing our funding for Colombia to over €5 million in 2024, primarily in support of peace. Minister Velasquez and I also discussed ongoing police cooperation between our jurisdictions and exchanged views as to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...many students benefited from it? If the Minister has any information on the types of courses, he might give us a brief outline of that. The Minister announced a mental health budget of about €5 million in Christmas week, broken down between the various universities and TUs. If I recall, UCC got €350,000 or something to that effect, while other colleges got similar sums....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...VII for his Department that it will cover in part the requirement for private consultants. He has allocated €100,000 for policy reviews, consultancy services and research. That figure was €150,000 in 2023. In a written response to me on 20 April 2023, the Minister informed me that his Department had spent €5 million on private consultants, including over €1...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard O'Donoghue: ...about the Land Development Agency, LDA. Much of what he was talking about is a crock of bull. I hate to put it that way, but it is. The LDA was set up to deal with infrastructure within 15 minutes of cities. This is what the Government set it up to do. In my area, this brings in Patrickswell, Adare, Croom, Ballyneety and Crecora, which are all about 15 minutes from Limerick city,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

...My experience and the experience of the assisted dying providers in New Zealand is that assisted dying is not different from our normal clinical duties. We are a small country with a population of 5 million. We provide a national service. I am very happy to come back, as I know Dr. McLaren and Dr. Allcroft would be, to discuss anything else that would be helpful or to make written...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: ...achieved again in 2023 notwithstanding the wider construction sector environment of high inflation, labour shortages and supply chain issues. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing over €5 billion during the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost one million students and over 100,000 staff that learn and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (23 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Carol Nolan: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that under Project Ireland 2040, her Department is investing in excess of €5 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost one million students and over 100,000 staff that learn and work in our schools every day; if this level of investment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...is found to be non-compliant. The Government is committed to ensuring that a stock of high quality accommodation is available for those who live in the private rented sector. Housing for All sets a target of 25% for the inspection of all private residential tenancies from 2021. A total of €9 million in Exchequer funding is being made available by my Department to local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (23 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Early Years Inspectorate covering the period up to the end of November 2023 shows:a net increase of 126 in the overall number of ELC and standalone SAC services year to date;a net increase of 158 standalone SAC services (after-school childcare) year to date;a five-year low in the number of net ELC (i.e. early learning and care, or pre-school) services closures, (i.e. 32 net closures...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...in this Bill, my Department will no longer assess child maintenance payments in the means tests for social welfare schemes. This will be of direct benefit to an estimated 16,000 lone parents at a cost of €10 million a year. In some cases, this will mean that people receive a higher payment. In others, it will mean that people qualify for a payment for the first time. I only have...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Mr. John McKeon: To clarify, that €240 million per year is the value of a 0.1% increase. When it gets up to 0.7% it will be 0.7 times that. In the next five years we expect to raise approximately €5 billion extra in social insurance revenues.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...target of achieving a 10% reduction in the number of patients breaching the Sláintecare waiting times was exceeded, with an 11% reduction achieved, and the target of removing approximately 1.66 million patients from waiting lists in 2023 was exceeded by 5%. This covers inpatients, day case, outpatients and GI scopes. Since the pandemic peaks there has been a 27%reduction in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...to the cost of their own care is calculated under the same criteria, therefore the cost to the resident remains the same. In 2019, the Nursing Homes Support Scheme funding (NHSS) budget was €985.8m. Year-on-year the budget has increased: in 2023 I secured a funding increase of €40 million for the NHSS. An additional €45.6 million has been allocated to support...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...needs of patients. Staffing at the hospital is now approx. 2,707 WTE (November 2023), an increase of 39% since December 2019. The hospital’s budget has increased by 33.3% since 2019 to €268.3 million in 2023, a significant increase in funding in this time period. The Programme for Government committed to the delivery of a second Cath Lab in University Hospital Waterford...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...and Tier 2 Bursary which will total 600 for the 2023/2024 academic year.The average annual allocation of Fund for Students with a Disability (FSD) to the higher education sector is in the region of €7.6 million. I have increased the fund for 2024 by 5% to over €8 million.The Student Assistance Fund has funding of over 19m available for the 2023/2024 academic yearUniversal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...for students with a disability in higher education including:-The average annual allocation of the Fund for Students with a Disability funding to the higher education sector is in the region of €7.6 million. I have increased the fund for 2024 by 5% to over €8 million.Universal Design measures have been progressed with 19 institutions receiving a total of €3m in funding...