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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of funding streams addressing integration on the basis of annual or multi-annual open calls for funding. The National Integration Fund (NIF) has the goal of supporting communities across Ireland to play a greater role in promoting the integration of migrants, and is open to organisations operating at regional and national level.Approximately €750,000 is committed per year, subject...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (23 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to cycling and public transport infrastructure, including the provision of funding to the National Transport Authority (NTA) for bike-sharing schemes like the Regional Bikes Scheme in Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Galway. However, matters related to the day-to-day operations, management or expansion of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Dr. Barry Colfer: I wish everybody a good morning. As the Cathaoirleach said, I am director of research at the IIEA. I am also a fellow or teacher in politics at the University of Cambridge where I teach EU law. I also worked previously in the European Parliament. It is always a sincere honour to speak in Leinster House. Despite my modest experience of working in the European...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (14 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of fire station premises, is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Services Acts, 1981 and 2003. My Department supports the fire authorities through setting general policy, providing a central training...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Nov 2023)

Emer Higgins: The Government is encouraging more and more people to use their bike and leave their cars at home. I believe that professional cyclists should be setting a good example to new and commuting cyclists by creating a safe road share culture. Yet many of us will be aware of incidents and near misses involving delivery cyclists who have broken red lights, who have face timed while they cycled or...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I want to speak again about the flooding in north Louth. The work continues around the peninsula and the Border to try to get the land and houses back to something resembling normal. There is a sense of fear and anxiety around the place because we are looking at grey clouds and we are afraid more rain is going to come. I spoke to a lady this morning who told me her house had been flooded...

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

James Browne: I move: That Dáil Éireann resolves that the period of operation of sections 1 to 7 and 9 of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021 (No. 14 of 2021) be extended for a further period of six months, beginning on the 1st day of December, 2023 and ending on the 31st day of May, 2024. I am introducing a resolution on behalf of the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (7 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Cian O'Callaghan: 331. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the bike-to-work scheme for people who are self-employed in the interest of meeting our climate targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48394/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...(DHLGH), the City and County Management Association (CCMA) and the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) have developed a new local integration model. The Department is providing funding to each Local Authority to establish a Local Authority Integration Team (LAIT). The primary role of the LAITs is to provide ongoing integration supports to IP applicants, Programme Refugees and BOTP to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerald Nash: That is unfortunate. I will just speak to amendment No. 4 again. For most reliefs of this nature, when we look at benefit in kind, by definition there is a presumption of an employee-employer relationship. I will note that the rent tax credit for a student can be claimed by parents. The Minister is making provision for that. The same principle should apply to his consideration of this...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Carol Nolan: To an increasing number of people, this Government is making the issues of road safety and the criminalisation of road users, especially drivers, almost identical but they are not. We know from the National Household Travel Survey that almost seven in ten, or 69%, of all road trips are made by car. In that context, the number of safety issues that can be attributed to the careless actions...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Maria Byrne: ...í. I hosted a meeting with small businesses in Limerick recently with the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, when she was in Limerick.One of the major issues raised was the use of scrambler bikes for crime and intimidation. I compliment An Garda Síochána because, yesterday, 39 gardaí and some of the armed response unit seized more than 44 scrambler bikes and number...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: My Department is continuously exploring ways to encourage the uptake of cycling as a mode of transport and it is evident that the popularity of e-bikes is rising. Our National Sustainable Mobility Policy examines the different behavioural change measures that can be explored to promote modal shift away from private car use and towards zero-emission transport modes such as walking, cycling and...

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

Gerry Horkan: ...Czech Republic enjoy the day also. I know they had a very successful event recently in the Czech Embassy. I was given the privilege of speaking at the embassy's national day function last year to wish the outgoing ambassador the very best on his retirement and the new ambassador, who is coming in early January if I am right, the very best. I attended an event yesterday evening and I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (25 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Department is continuously exploring ways to encourage the uptake of cycling as a mode of transport. The popularity of e-bikes is growing and they serve to encourage an even wider demographic of potential cyclists to choose an active mode of transport over the private car. I was pleased to see the thresholds for the Cycle to Work scheme increased by the Minister for Finance in Budget...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2024 (19 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...and Active Travel investment, details of which are outlined below. National Roads As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design, construction, operation and management of individual national roads...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We tabled this motion in good faith. The Government has decided not to oppose it but it is a complete cop-out. It is an abject failure of the Department. I am disappointed that the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, is not here for the reply. With the Chair's indulgence, I would like to sympathise with the families of the four young leaving certificate students from Clonmel. They...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome Lucia and Jim and their daughters, and, indeed, brothers, and their little grandchild today. They should not have to be here. What kind of a cabal of a country are we running? That is all I can call it. I have been in this House for 16 years and I have seen a litany of injustices and cover-ups, from Whiddy Island, ever before I came in here, to the Fr. Niall Molloy killing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety (17 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Jack Chambers: I thank Senator Fitzpatrick for raising this important matter. I know she has been working on it for many years with Oireachtas colleagues. As the Senator is aware, the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 was signed into law by the President on 23 June last. This is wide-ranging legislation that introduces enforceable variable speed limits. It creates a new public body, namely, Zero Emissions...

Seanad: Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I would like to say thanks to the Minister but what she has read out is not acceptable, not to me and not to this Seanad. Shane O'Farrell was killed when he was out on his bike. He was cycling training on 2 August 2011, and Zigimantas Gridziuska, a convicted criminal who we let walk into this country with no checks or balances whatsoever, knocked him down in his car and callously drove...