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Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...to take place to ensure a sustainable and comprehensive peace. The Taoiseach met with Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan in the margins of the European Political Community meeting in Granada on 5 October and expressed his concern that Karabakh Armenians have felt forced to flee their homelanden masse, and outlined EU and Irish assistance. Some €10.45 million in EU funding has been...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Financial Resolutions (25 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution and, for that purpose, that the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 be further amended, by the insertion of Chapter 5 of Part 33, in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution. 5. THAT the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997) be amended in respect of the taxation...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...with the Government’s overall direction of travel in this area. Between 2018 and 2023, nearly 1,000 school building projects were completed. Through Project Ireland 2040, the Department is investing in excess of €5 billion over the period from 2021 to 2025 to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost 1 million students and more...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...... if significant civilian infrastructural damage is not addressed, no further escalation is required for the situation to worsen from dire to catastrophic...; ...just confirmation that between 5 October and 9 October air attacks and shelling were intensive. The impact of those attacks has now been documented. There were 11 power stations hit affecting more than 2 million people; 18...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: ...applying from 1 January at the level advised by ICES. In previous years, the Commission developed a plan for provisional TACs for the first three months of the year. That saw TACs for most stocks set at 25% of the previous year's total allowable catch level, with the full total allowable catch applied for coastal state stocks such as mackerel and blue whiting. While this situation is...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (25 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...services. The number, by county, of organisations currently supported is set out in the table below. A new call for applications under the CSP was launched on 6thMarch last with a budget of €1 million in 2023. 197 stage 1 Concept Notes were received, following which 33 successful stage 1 applicants were invited to submit a full application under stage 2. Of these 33 organisations,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

...The objectives of both authorities continue to align. I have now learned that the mandate of the Health and Safety Authority has broadened since my earlier days. Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the authority protects the safety and health of workers and people affected by work-related activities. That is somewhat as it always has been but there are new and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 57, 84 and 101 together. As part of budget 2024, I secured a €2.3 billion social protection package. This is, for the second year in a row, the largest in the history of the State. This package provides a mixture of exceptional cost-of-living payments delivered over the coming weeks, along with an across-the-board €12 weekly rate increase...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Butler: ...;31 per hour, up to a maximum of €34 per hour. The service level agreement made with the HSE and the private sector involves the delivery of 30-minute and 60-minute sessions. There is no concept of 45-minute sessions. Notwithstanding these improvements, there is currently a funded waiting list of approximately 2,800 people who are receiving home support but not the maximum hours...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Marian Harkin: ...Justice Ireland for the detailed analysis it provided last year, this year and in other years because it allows us to see the bigger picture, the ongoing impact, on children, individuals and families. On page 59 of its socioeconomic review for 2023, Social Justice Ireland points out that it has consistently argued for the prioritisation of low-income welfare-dependent families in...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerald Nash: ...was warned of the deadweight effect by Department of Finance officials time and again as the Minister knows. The deadweight effect, of course, involves State support for market activity that would happen in any case. I believe we have spent over €700 million on help to buy since 2016 or 2017. Mazars reviewed the scheme and suggested that if the Government was continuing with it,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...in the context of this year's budget. I also raise the submission made by the Northern and Western Regional Assembly, which has drafted a submission asking for three things - a stimulus package of €570 million for the region between now and 2027, a policy of positive discrimination for the region and more regional autonomy. The document clearly sets out the reasons for the three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...we know it works. My first question relates to that challenge. How do we prove and convince that it is a far better use of money, and that it would require far less money, than constant €25 million flood prevention schemes that channel the river and block communities from accessing something they have accessed for many years and impact on biodiversity? There are a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: ...then say that we need buses put in place? It has to be outside of the strict remit of school transport at the moment. We will put buses in place to ferry children from the town out to perhaps a 5 km or 10 km radius to make sure that capacity is there. How is that managed? Regarding school transport, I believe the extra funds are at more than €90 million in the budget this year...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Free Travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. There are over one million customers with direct eligibility. The estimated expenditure on free travel in 2023 is €95 million. As part of Budget 2024 I was particularly pleased to extend my Department’s Free Travel Pass to support people who are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: Through Project Ireland 2040, we are investing at least €5 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for almost one million students and over 100,000 staff that learn and work in our schools every day. My Department has a proven track record of delivery. During the period June 2020 to date, 140 projects were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (24 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 512 to 514,. inclusive, together. It is recognised that waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures were too long before and have been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Department of Health continues to work with the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to identify ways to improve access to care. The 2023 Waiting List...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...for the provision of services to medical card and GP visit card holders, are required under their contract to make suitable arrangements for emergencies outside normal practice hours. Over 2,500 GPs currently hold a GMS contract, and while they are not obliged to, most GPs participate in GP Out of Hours co-operatives to meet their outside of practice hours service requirements. A...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...record amount of money is not enough. If the Government and Government Members were to recognise that, we might get somewhere with solving the issue in the first place. In 2000 there were 3.8 million people in the Twenty-six Counties and today there are over 5 million, which is 1.2 million extra people in need of healthcare and everything else. There are fewer beds in the system...

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Mr. Phelim Devine: In terms of the budget, the €1.433 billion, that project ran over by about €5 million. In saying that, I think the overall outturn, including all the support, was about €82 million, off the top of my head. The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned a value of €86 million. That was our direct cost for it, so that is €86 million....