Results 41-60 of 469 for speaker:Paul Lawless

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: Regarding Storm Éowyn and the difficulties that farmers faced due to shed damage, particularly in Mayo, Roscommon and right across the western seaboard, has the Minister any provision in TAMS, which will be opened in the autumn, or indeed in next year's budget, to provide supports for those farmers?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: What the Minister said at the end is what I am referring to, about sheds and structural damage, not generators. What can we say to farmers today in that regard? When will that open? What are the plans?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I appreciate the Minister's work in that regard. That is tranche 7. When does he expect that to open?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: In relation to programme D3 - fisheries-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will focus on the wildlife programme. How many TB vaccinations took place nationally in each of the past five years? Can the witnesses provide a breakdown by area? What analysis has been done on the outbreak of TB in herds? What work has been done in the wildlife programme, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: So, of 14,000 badgers, 7,000 are vaccinated and 7,000 culled. What percentage of the 7,000 vaccinated are recaptured for assessment of the efficacy of that vaccine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: If there is no assessment whatsoever of how effective it is, that seems to me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I only have a short time. I know there is serious focus in the Department on the proposals for the farmer, so I want to focus my time on the wildlife programme. I think it is a serious flaw that there is no attempt by the Department to recapture the badgers and assess the efficacy and effectiveness of the vaccine. Will the Department consider at least a pilot or trial? We are spending...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: But the point I make is that we are not retesting them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: My next question is for the TB stakeholder forum. One of the strengths of the Australian model and the New Zealand model was the collaborative approach in working with farmers, farm organisations and the department. Is the forum happy with the level of collaboration and engagement it has had. If not, what key objectives would the forum like to get across today with regard to the proposals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I thank the witnesses.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: What about the broader point of childcare? Are there any additional supports for those mothers?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I very much welcome the childcare supports and subsidies. It is critically important that we reduce the cost. I also want to raise with the Minister a poll by Amárach Research in 2024, which found that 69% of mothers with children under the age of 18 would prefer to stay at home if they could afford it. In addition, 76% of mothers felt that their work in the home is undervalued...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: 76. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she is taking to ensure that children with disabilities receive early intervention and treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32482/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: Early intervention is critical. I want to ask about CDNT vacancies. What is the number of vacancies? What is the percentage of vacant posts throughout the CDNT network? What are the long-term and short-term strategies to address recruitment issues?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: How many vacancies do we have in the CDNTs? What is the number? What is the percentage? What are the strategies on this? The Minister of State alluded earlier to the strategy being recruitment in secondary schools. Am I right in saying this? Are we to believe the crisis will not be solved for a number of years? What are we doing to entice the wonderful graduates in this field who are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I have to say if I were a parent listening to this I would be incredibly frustrated. The Minister of State has, perhaps, a mid- to long-term plan but very little to alleviate the crisis today. There is a window of opportunity. These children will miss their targets. They will be significantly disadvantaged. For some it will mean the difference between being able to live independently or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: This is the type of proactive solution and policy I want the Minister of State to address. These are wonderful Irish graduates-----