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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: I have consistently engaged with the Garda Commissioner and colleagues on what more can be done to support An Garda Síochána in its work and efforts to combat and deal with what have become more violent and more challenging protests. No stone should be left unturned. Certainly, while every individual has the democratic right to protest peacefully, there is no reason people should...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I raise the issue of the single school enrolment plan and the taskforce for Dublin 15. Eleven children are currently without a school place in Dublin 15 and parent advocacy groups I met yesterday have identified that more than 30 students will require a school placement in 2025. There are huge concerns that the process will not be speedy enough to deal with the situation for 2025. Can the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for raising this question. The precise reason I am setting up the Dublin 15 taskforce is to ensure the NCSE, schools, patrons and boards of management in that area are all communicating. I want that taskforce also to work on a common application process so we are not in this position next September. The reality at the moment is that there is an information gap in the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Brendan Smith: The Minister will be aware that adult education classes have been extremely important for a huge number of learners on an annual basis. They have enabled people to develop skills and obtain qualifications that literally changed their lives. In Cavan-Monaghan, thanks to the good work of the education and training boards, ETBs, over many years, we have had active and dynamic programmes....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The Government has invested significantly in further education and training in recent years by increasing funding from approximately €900 million in 2020 to just over €1 billion. That is all in current terms. We have also put in place a new grade for adult educator, to which the Deputy referred. That post and role was formally...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is 31 years since the decriminalisation of sexual activity between men and six years since the Government, when apologising for the State wrongs, promised it would quash any such convictions which wrecked the lives of many. Disregard legislation was recommended by the working group report published last year by the Minister for Justice. She also stated in January of this year that the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: I share the Deputy's frustration and his ambition to right many of the wrongs inflicted on many people over the years. I thank the individuals and various groups and organisations which came together to make the recommendations and ensure we could right those wrongs. The work in ongoing and I hope to progress it as soon as possible but I do not have a definitive date for it yet.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are five contributors left so I ask them to contribute by keeping to the time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

David Stanton: What is the Government policy on dispatch-down, which is compensation paid on constraints and curtailment of renewable energy generation? Leading operators are to be compensated by individual homes and businesses, albeit indirectly, by higher bills. How much is estimated to be paid out this year and how much was paid out last year for this?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will have to come back to the Deputy on the matter. It is a specific issue and he is looking for a specific figure I do not have at the moment. I will find it and make sure the Deputy gets it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Alan Kelly: I return to this strange letter from the Minister for Health to the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, the Taoiseach and many others regarding the children's hospital. Why has the Government not asked the board why the independent adjudicator keeps awarding large sums in favour of the contractor? It is a pretty obvious question. Sums of €17 million and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Another shed out the front. A bike shed for a party leader. That was kept quiet.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to the desperate situation unfolding in Lebanon and the ongoing carnage we are seeing in Gaza and the West Bank. I heard Munier and Gadier Zabad speak on "Morning Ireland" this morning. They are among the Irish families fearing for their safety and are now trapped in Lebanon with no way out while under brutal Israeli bombardment. We are seeing an horrific escalation of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy raised the status of the occupied territories Bill with me earlier this afternoon and I did not respond to her. I am glad to have the chance to do so now. She will be aware, given her legal eminence, of the fact that trade competence sits with the European Union and the Commission of the European Union rather than us at national level. The Taoiseach has, given the obvious...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Holly Cairns: Recently, a constituent reached out to me. Her daughter had an epileptic seizure and she called an ambulance, but had to wait for four hours. That is not an isolated incident. Response times for ambulances are too long, especially in rural areas. Due to staffing shortages, the service depends on workers on non-rostered overtime. This issue is particularly acute in the south west....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising that matter. I am sorry to hear of the obvious distress that would have been caused to the Deputy's constituent who had to contact her. From a funding point of view, we are providing, and will continue to provide, record levels of funding to the HSE. The funding that was provided for this year, and which will be provided next year, is a comprehensive attempt...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Holly Cairns: They have no funding to address the staff shortages.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The funding is coming from the Government to recruit more and more people for the HSE. I will ensure that the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, is aware of this matter. I believe he is, given that it was referenced in the Dáil last week. I will do so again.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to ask about staffing in the health service. In July, the Government announced a lifting of the recruitment embargo in the HSE. However, over the past few weeks I have started to receive desperate calls from staff in multiple departments in my local hospital about a recruitment embargo being imposed in St. Michael's Hospital that is endangering patient safety and means workers...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: In the middle of the year, we provided additional funding to the HSE for not only this year, but in advance of budget 2025, to ensure it is better funded than it had been before and to respond to the funding difficulties that began to develop at the start of this year. The HSE can only recruit those it is funded to recruit. It is not an embargo. It is the way every other Government...