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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Jackie Cahill: ...by witnesses, outside of the proceedings held by the committee, of any matters arising from the proceedings. The purpose of the first session of today's meeting is for the committee to resume examination of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's response to ash dieback. The committee will hear from the following representatives of Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

...money for the taxpayer. The new infrastructure guidelines, following on from the previous public spending code, give project managers the necessary tool kit to achieve this. In March 2023, after examining the support structures and levers available across government in order to maximise delivery of vital infrastructure, six priority actions were approved by the Government to improve...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...revised regulations. We are engaging with stakeholders on this and hope to amend the regulations very soon. That is where we are on that. Of course, whatever amendments Deputies table will be examined. Deputy Shortall raised quite a number of issues. First, I want to completely rebut her suggestion of preferential treatment for farmers. When the legislation was introduced in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Single Means Test and Experience of Universal Credit System in the United Kingdom: Discussion (12 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...practical. We cannot bring the car to the garage but have to try to fix it while driving on the motorway which is why we have this feature of bolt-ons across our system. It is also why we are examining this idea of means testing. Professor Millar talked about the why. Why is that we would do means testing? We could proceed from the point of view that we do not want to inadvertently...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Griffin: ...back than 2018 that I am concerned about and that the workers who have been disenfranchised and disadvantaged are concerned about. These are the issues the chairman has an obligation to fully examine and make right. Is he fully briefed on the overall picture? There has been a spin coming from the HR department of RTÉ consistently since we started raising this here about Eversheds...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (12 Jun 2024)

James Lawless: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25618/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (12 Jun 2024)

Peter Burke: ..., namely the Low Pay Commission, is largely already in compliance with the provisions of the Directive. A technical group has been established with Department officials and the social partners to examine what is required to implement the collective bargaining elements set out in Article 4 of the Directive. My Department has also requested legal advice as to whether any legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: ...the terms of the scheme, a second-level school is a school which is recognised by the Department for the purpose of providing the prescribed certificate courses, which enters its students for the State examinations and is subject to inspection by the Department. As per the circular above, the pupil “must be resident 4.8 km or more from a second-level school where suitable free...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (12 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...nature of this case, senior officials from my Department met with the victim to discuss the particular circumstances of their case. On foot of that meeting, my officials have committed to examining how we can ensure that a person’s right to information about the release date would continue to operate where the actual date of release from detention is deferred due a separate...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (11 Jun 2024)

Jerry Buttimer: ...CHO, 1 area. Senator Tim Lombard - The need for the Minister for Education to make a statement on the process in place for ongoing review of the scheme of reasonable accommodations at certificate examinations including the addition of new reasonable accommodations. The matters raised by the Senators are suitable for discussion and I have selected Senators Ward, Clonan, McGreehan and Lynn...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Neale Richmond: ...are of a 2025 standard, not just for Niamh but for all of the others. There is a review process based on the use of digital papers, as I mentioned, in this year's junior and leaving certificate examinations. That provides a window of opportunity and there is a responsibility on all of us to seize that opportunity. I will do anything I can to ensure that the Ministers, Deputies...

Seanad: Control of Dogs (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...is important we get this right. Finally, I thank the Senators for bringing forward this Bill today and for giving me the opportunity to discuss these very important issues. I will be asking the stakeholder group to examine the Bill and consider its proposals as part of the broader package of measures we will bring forward to strengthen our dog control legislation in Ireland.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Pensions (11 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Bernard Durkan: 13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects to examine the possibility of allowing pro rata pensions for those that currently have insufficient contributions to qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25393/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (11 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...of social welfare payments throughout the country and this is greatly valued. Is it the Minister's intention in the course of preparation for the next budget - which is in some months' time - to examine family situations whereby a large family may have a lot of outgoings and whether there could be a general test or overall template in order those who come in under the level of payments...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Eoin Ó Broin: ...that this section of the Bill and the related definitions would allow that. I think officials were saying that is not the case. Literally as we are speaking, a story has broken in the Irish Examiner that indicates that the Minister's officials have now referred the matter to the Attorney General. It would be welcome if the Minister clarified that. It suggests that might be a matter on...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Family Carers Ireland this month. We intend to review the means tests for supports for carers. It is the Government's view that they need to change and the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, wants to examine this issue in the context of the budget. I do meet too many carers who are not benefiting from or are locked out of being able to access supports that we would like to see them be in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Ms O'Connor for her opening statement. I have not properly examined the sustainability toolkit for schools. In a busy political life, I need to find a couple of hours to sit down and give it my undivided attention. It is a positive initiative. I acknowledge that the representatives from the Irish Second-Level Students' Union who appeared before the committee were quite positive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Dóchas Pre-Budget Submission: Discussion (11 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

.... We know that investing in disaster mitigation systems now saves money in future. My colleagues, Ms Balfe and Ms Ní Chéilleachair, will expand on these solutions and the financing needed for them. We should also examine the regulatory environment surrounding how the private sector might engage fully with funding mechanisms in terms of carbon financing and carbon markets as...