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Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Pearse Doherty: ...in the space of a year, with nearly 4,000 children and young people waiting to be seen as of August 2023. In my own area of CHO 1, which includes Donegal, 294 children and young people are languishing on waiting lists and over half of them have been waiting more than three months. It is a postcode lottery for these children. Children and parents are anxiously and desperately waiting for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 Feb 2024)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...to the funding stream for hair therapy pieces would negatively affect those suffering from alopecia. I looked at this and no more than the post-mastectomy support, there seems to be a postcode lottery for what women would receive. For example, in Kildare, they would receive €750 worth of scalp therapy, wigs, etc. In Cork, it is €450 and in Kilkenny it is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Data Centres (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...facility. To ensure the continued integrity and security of the services provided by this organisation, the exact location cannot be supplied. Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery The ORNL uses a Multi-Geo Data Residency service that was recommended by its expert ICT consultant for meeting its security requirements and public sector procurement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (27 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Brendan Griffin: ...the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the alignment between the objective of the Gambling Regulation Bill to protect vulnerable persons and the exclusion of the National Lottery from the purview of the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, particularly in light of recent findings from the Economic and Social Research Institute study on problem gambling,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Bodies (27 Feb 2024)

James Browne: ...x2013; Údarás Rialála Cearrbhachais na hÉireann, the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland – and for a robust regulatory and licensing regime to regulate gambling in-person and online including lotteries and other similar gambling activities permitted under the Bill and for the regulation of gambling advertising, websites and apps. The Authority will...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...many issues. This is invaluable. I request that the Minister give consideration to extending the needle exchange programme. In many areas, this works really well. However, it is a postcode lottery. Will the Minister consider extending this programme to ensure that services are available in all areas? The programme is particularly important in rural areas, where people have to...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...constituency of Fingal, who also have to wait for up to two weeks to be seen. There are irregularities in the context access to care across the country. This needs to change. There can be no postcode lottery when it comes to access to health services. The Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, has outlined that we have seven GPs to every 10,000 people at present. This is despite the fact...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...and there is a budget of about €300 million per year, which is significant. These are hugely important supports for women who go through mastectomies. I understand in the past there was a postcode lottery in respect of what a woman undergoing a mastectomy would receive. In some cases, she would receive one or two mastectomy bras and in other cases two bras and a swimsuit. We...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Feb 2024)

Robert Troy: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give an outline of the school bus lottery system for concessionary seats, outlining in full how seats are allocated through this system. [7181/24]

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: ...Ireland. Recent media reports on domestic violence indicate that there are still nine counties that do not have women's refuges. That is completely unacceptable. Essentially, there is a postcode lottery in terms of access to necessary supports for victims of domestic abuse. When the figures are released each month, we are all devastated to see the number of people who are homeless. We...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Some people could only dream of that kind of money. It is lottery-type money.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: ...and processed, leaving 2,727 schools with an ask amounting to over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: ... Number of applications Successful applications Primary 675 122 Post-primary 160 24 As you are aware a lottery was run with regards to the allocation of the STEM grants. The applications from each school selected in the lottery was assessed on a case by case basis. They were read again by the evaluation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to inform the deputy that a lottery was run with regards to the allocation of the STEM grants. The applications from each school selected in the lottery was assessed on a case by case basis. They were read again by the evaluation team to ensure they met the requirements as set out in the grant call. School status was one of the considerations taken into account but was not the only...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Lowry: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 17 January 2024, how the lottery system used during the STEM grant application process was highlighted in the briefing document to schools before they applied; her views on whether a lottery system was fair, considering the short timeframe offered to schools to complete the application, and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...a concern that I have voiced to this committee before. Given the experience to date with CHOs and the even stronger focus on regional autonomy in Sláintecare, how are national services to avoid a postcode lottery in national initiatives such as the dementia service or, indeed, the carer guarantee? If we are to do that, it will require practical mechanisms and possibly a detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: ...occasion, the funding fell short of the ask of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications (2,727) and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery on this occasion. Each of the applications were read and logged with any invalid applications removed. They were then subject to the lottery system. Any school that succeeded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: ..., the funding fell short of the ask of over €25 million. Given the very high number of valid applications (2,727) and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery on this occasion. Each of the applications were read and logged with any invalid applications removed. They were then subject to the lottery system. Any school that succeeded...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...of cases - the services might as well not exist. People do not even get a call back and people who have the most extreme cases are being told to come back in a year's time. Is it a postcode lottery with a particular issue in one CHO area or is it an issue across the board? Is it a funding or staffing issue? What is the impediment to delivering these critical services?

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...who yearn for their child to have a full, meaningful life and live their best life, and for carers themselves to have some comfort. They are not being served. They may be served in parts of the country and I acknowledge some parts of the country are very good, but we have a postcode lottery which means that, depending on where people live or what CHO they have the misfortune to find...