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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (20 Sep 2022)

Michael McGrath: ...Independent Review Panel established to review Senior Public Service recruitment and pay processes Quarter 4 2022 Review of the Process for the Distribution and Utilisation of National Lottery Funds Quarter 4 2022 IGEES Analytical Notes Quarter 4 2022 Lives of Older People in Ireland – utilising the Well-being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...additional needs. On the overall issue of transport, where there are priorities at present, people with additional needs should get concessionary tickets, if they are available or if there is a lottery for them. There is a mechanism for that. Again, the situation is ever evolving and new information is coming on a daily basis, from society and the Department. Special education will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...additional capacity is not being sought for pupils who did not secure a ticket for this school year. Meanwhile, other parents who applied and paid on time had their children lose out due to the unfair lottery nature of the scheme. Families that expected to realise savings of €500 will now instead have additional costs heaped on them as they try to find alternatives. We have a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Murphy: It is a postcode lottery for people. The people who will miss out on services are families who cannot pay.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 185. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which advertising forms part of the budget of the National Lottery; the sources of the total expenditure; the extent to which 90% of funds available to the National Lottery, as is claimed are returned to the local community; if the administrative costs of the operation of the lottery are therefore 10% or otherwise; and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (14 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: 193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the progress of the review into the National Lottery good causes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45014/22]

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...with them right now is the inconsistency in their appointment. I have seen the figures, and I am sure they were shown during the pre-legislative scrutiny phase as well. There is a geographical lottery in terms of whether someone can get a GAL appointed to them. That is untenable in the context of the important service GALs provide in childcare proceedings. There was debate on this...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...corporations continue to profit and effectively ignore the homeowners, it is tough. It is hard to watch. It is adding to the pain and suffering of people as they see top executives receiving lottery-style payouts annually while people are looking at the render falling off their walls, the cracking, windows falling out and trying to figure out how they are going to put a home together...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (13 Jul 2022)

Michael McGrath: ...is very aware of robust equality legislation being in place which includes the outlawing of sexual discrimination in the recruitment of staff and is also aware of the National LGBT+ Inclusion Strategy 2019-21. Office of the National Lottery Regulator (ORNL) The ORNL is a small office with Ministerial sanction for 11 staff, including two part-time staff. The Office is fortunate in that it...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State-Owned Enterprises (13 Jul 2022)

Michael McGrath: ...its aegis.The public bodies under the aegis of my Department do not pay dividends to it and are either grant funded or self-funded. The bodies under the aegis are the ESRI, IPA and the National Lottery Regulator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Integrated Eye Care: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...do the populations of CHO 1, CHO 8 and CHO 9 fare funding-wise for eye services compared with similar populations throughout the rest of the country? There is this perennial problem of postcode lotteries tying into funding. Is it a case that those three CHOs, compared with others throughout the country, have additional funding?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: ...exceed eight minutes, the contribution by the Leader of the House not to exceed two minutes, and the proposer shall be given five minutes to reply to the debate; and No. 8, Private Members' business, National Lottery (Amendment) Bill 2021 – Committee Stage (resumed), to be taken at 8 p.m., and the proceedings thereon shall, if not previously concluded, adjourn after one hour.

National Lottery (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (12 Jul 2022)

Michael McGrath: ...Government Procurement (OGP), which is part of my Department, engaged the services of one of the named organisations during the period specified. With the exception of the Office of the National Lottery regulator (ORNL), this is also the case for the bodies under the aegis of my Department. The ORNL have advised that they have not engaged the services of either of the named organisations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

...they needed because there was not an understanding of some of the communication differences. This training saves lives and is critical. A few years ago, Northern Ireland had an initiative using lottery funding to allow every member of the PSNI to access training. Mandatory training is critical. Training that is bespoke to specific industries is needed. In Ireland we are not always...

Irish Corporate Governance (Gender Balance) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Jul 2022)

Neale Richmond: I welcome the opportunity to contribute briefly to this debate. I thank Deputy Higgins for bringing forward this Private Members' Bill. I know it has been in the lottery, as such, for some time but not nearly as long as the EU has been waiting to pass the relevant directive. We are all disappointed by that, but it makes eminent sense to combine the two efforts. I hope that it can be done...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2022)

Michael McDowell: ..., as does the mica remediation legislation. On the other hand, business which will not reach Report and Final Stages next week and could be scheduled for the autumn, such as Senator Ward's National Lottery (Amendment) Bill and a Green Party Bill about animal welfare, which is not urgent, is now being slotted in to take up time which could be allocated to the other legislation proposed to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is. One thing we all talk about is postcode lotteries-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Transport Schemes: Discussion (7 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

...system needs to be flexible enough to look at individual needs rather than pushing everyone into one type of system. It is a bit like respite around the country. There is definitely a postcode lottery. Where you live determines how good or bad the service you will get is. We need to see consistency and equity of access, right across the country and that is why it is so important that...