Results 41-60 of 175 for speaker:Paula Butterly

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Does that funding allow for any restoration of fees for barristers? It is something they have been campaigning long and hard for and there is an exodus of barristers at this stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: On the community safety partnerships, this is very welcome. We saw the benefits of having the Drogheda implementation board in County Louth. Does the Minister think sufficient funding is being made available? It is the very moment in which we can bring all the different stakeholders together and have a very positive impact. As any of my colleagues here have said, at ground level we have...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: That will not change.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Okay. At the beginning, some of my colleagues also brought this up. The GRA, prior to the election, said that over 90% of An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison Service, Defence Forces and the fire brigades were very unsatisfied and concerned in regard to their pensions - obviously, whoever was recruited after 2013. Some 73% of those believed they would have to find alternative...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: A lot of what has been spoken about today is about addressing issues after they have happened. I will give my thoughts on this. We have established task forces or committees on a cross-departmental basis. I am very conscious that on the ground there are children coming into crime at an earlier and earlier stage. There is an element of intergenerational crime starting to happen. Maybe it...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I agree with the Minister. The home liaison officer is able to access the home. Once upon a time, the community garda was able to get the knowledge on the street and have a trusted relationship with families and neighbourhoods. There is a gap there that needs to be addressed. The Minister is absolutely right about community groups. I am involved with many of them across County Louth....

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Apologies, Chair, but we are here to talk about Estimates. We will have an opportunity, I hope in September or October-----

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Respectfully-----

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: You are, and I am the Vice Chair.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: You are turning the purpose of this meeting into a completely different purpose.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Ask a specific question in relation to what the committee is here for today, Chair, respectfully. Do your job as a Chair properly.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Through the Chair, every member has asked specific questions in relation to the committee. You have taken it across to another topic which is scheduled, I hope, to happen in September or October. The Chair has decided to go off on his own steam and away from the purpose of today's meeting.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: You have not asked a question.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: How will those funds be allocated? Will it be on a project-by-project basis or will it be each individual community safety partnership applying for the funds?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of funding for phase three and four of the PANCR project in County Louth given phase two is due to commence shortly. [34275/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend the free travel pass to children in receipt of domiciliary care allowance; the number of children who would benefit; the estimated cost of this extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32745/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank the Minister. I will go back over the criteria for free travel. One can get a free travel pass if one is in receipt of disability allowance, blind pension, carer's allowance or invalidity pension. Leaving out the domiciliary care allowance is an anomaly in itself. It is quite unfair. The domiciliary care allowance is provided to parents and guardians of children under 16 who have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I welcome all of these changes but I will go back to the issue. These children are under 16 years of age and have severe disabilities. Their parents and carers are put to the pin of their collar both financially and emotionally. Allowing them a free travel pass would not only ease the financial burden, but ease the transition. As I was saying previously, this is particularly the case in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (19 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to provide increased flexibility to local CE, TÚS and rural social schemes to retain participants for longer, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32744/25]

Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (18 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank the Minister of State for his opening statement. I have two relatively net questions for him. He spoke a lot about competitiveness. The Draghi report has highlighted how Europe invested €270 billion less than the US in research and development in 2021 and that Europeans are practically flocking to the US in search of funding. I think the report stated that up to 30% of the...