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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...screening processes which would offer protection in particular for vulnerable groups and existing holders of Pakistan residency cards. On 7 November 2024, the EU released an additional €61 million to support the people of Afghanistan and Afghan refugees within Pakistan. Ireland supports the EU’s response to the crisis in Afghanistan including the allocation of more than...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...screening processes which would offer protection in particular for vulnerable groups and existing holders of Pakistan residency cards. On 7 November 2024, the EU released an additional €61 million to support the people of Afghanistan and Afghan refugees within Pakistan. Ireland supports the EU’s response to the crisis in Afghanistan including the allocation of more than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...September 2024. A Post-graduate Programme for SPHE/RSE post-primary teachers in DCU has commenced with the first intake of 34 teachers since Feb 2023. A second intake is planned for January 2024, with up to 70 places on the course. €5 million is being invested to pilot a programme of counselling supports for primary school students. This will serve to support the very...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (30 Nov 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...inflationary costs on services. In February this year one off funding was announced for providers of health related community and voluntary services. Most drug and alcohol projects were awarded a one off 3.5% increase or a minimum of €1000. Further information on the scheme and the list of organisations benefitting is in the link:...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...of an unprecedented housing crisis. On the other hand, there are problems of chronic overspending, or, some would say, underfunding. For example, the HSE reported a deficit to the end of March of €178 million. The HSE's allocation for the period was €5.33 billion but spending was more than €5.5 billion, primarily due to spending in the early months of 2023 in acute...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 5: To insert the following after “That Seanad Éireann”: “notes that: - while it is acknowledged that the horse and greyhound racing sectors do not qualify for sports capital funding, they are unique in Irish sport in that they are supported by the State through their own ring-fenced statutory fund; - that payments into the Fund have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)

...the negative impacts of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and how the measures carried out under the fund would alleviate the adverse consequences. The total fund is €5.5 billion at EU level and Ireland received just over 20% of the entire reserve with an allocation €1.015 billion. This Department was allocated almost €300 million...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...capacity offshore of approximately 37 GW and approximately 10 GW onshore. That is, from wind alone, never mind other renewable power sources. At the moment, Ireland's grid only uses about 5 GW. The whole point of decarbonising our electricity generation and moving away from carbon-based fuels to more renewable and clean power generation capacity is to do what we need to from a climate...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: ...declaring we were "at war", I wonder with whom we are at war. With our international healthcare workers? Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street, where the children were cared for, has people of 65 nationalities working there; Irish, of course, being just one of those. We are very fortunate to have healthcare workers from all over the world. As I said in the Dáil last night,...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...day of the budget, shows that, in sub-programme A, defence policy and support, military capacities and operational outputs - the core spending of the Department on the military - is to rise from €915.362 million next year to €920.712 million. That is a 1%, or €5 million, increase. It is a joke. The Government is not serious about giving capacity to our Defence...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Policy (28 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Carrigy: ...local authority was targeted by the Department to reduce vacancy rates within its council housing stock. Longford County Council was given a target of reducing its 2021 vacancy rate of 7.2% to 3.5% in 2023. This was an ambitious target that was set for the local authority but I know the council was fully committed to achieving it and significant progress has been made on achieving the...

Seanad: Restoration of Oireachtas Library and Reading Room: Motion (28 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael McDowell: ...and Dáil Deputies, would be converted into a fifth committee room. I want to put on the record of this House that the fixed estimated costs for making that conversion involve an outlay of €3.7 million and that the annual extra cost for having it as a committee room would be €1.63 million, meaning that in the first year of operation this would cost more than €5...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

...said there should be no exceptions and that loopholes are not allowed; instead, a bar is created and it is made very progressive above a certain level. We have advocated that it be above €5 million, which is the highest bar, so no wealth below that €5 million would be taxed and only wealth above that. However, we could still raise huge revenue above that threshold. Those...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...been approved for funding through the Climate Action Fund are set out below. The first call for applications in 2018 received 97 applications and approved seven projects to move to validation stage, 5 of these projects are in delivery with another expected to move to delivery this year. Four of these projects have received funding amounting to €6.3 million. Six out of seven of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...on special education. Further progress has been made in Budget 2024 where 26% of my department’s budget will be dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs, representing a 5% increase on Budget 2023. This includes funding to support children with special educational needs in mainstream classes; funding for new special classes and new special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...to align school place provision with housing developments, increased demand for special educational needs provision and the accommodation of children from Ukraine. Under Project Ireland 2040, over €5 billion is being invested in the school sector over the period 2021-2025 which will add additional capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Returning to the register of electors, I was struck by Mr. O’Leary’s point that our population is growing at two TDs a year. Some 150,000 of 3 million or so is roughly 5% variation to the register of electors. Is the 5% by which it has varied additions, deletions or changes?

Report of Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the interest rate increases. In autumn of last year the State made a number of large sales of shares in banks. In September 2022 the State sold shares in Bank of Ireland to the value of €841 million, for an average of €6.17 per share. The Bank of Ireland share prices have since risen to almost €9 today. Similarly, a large sale of AIB State shares happened in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (23 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...making a difference. In 2023, the HSE national service plan provides for an additional 43 residential places as well as 23 residential care packages to young people ageing out of Tusla services. In 2023, €6.7 million new development funding was made available to further expand respite services. I note Deputy McGuinness's strong advocacy in the area of respite. The Minister of...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Michael Collins: .... There are home heating oil bills, the price of coal has gone up, and if someone smokes a cigarette or pulls a pint, that has probably gone up. There are all these increases that soak away that €12 so that it probably ends up being a €4 or €5 increase. It might be said there is nothing wrong with that but, at the same time, it is not enough for people who are...