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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). The committee's recommendations are based on the prevalence of the relevant disease in Ireland and international best practice in relation to immunisation. It makes recommendations on vaccination policy to my Department. The ages at which vaccines are recommended in the immunisation schedule are chosen by NIAC in order to give each...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (9 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like to advise you that the Irish Government's response to the crisis in Gaza has included significant humanitarian funding and the provision of in-kind assistance. A significant proportion of this funding supports the delivery of essential services, including healthcare provided in Gaza and neighbouring countries. Ireland has provided €40 million in humanitarian assistance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the important work carried out by all Clinical Placement Coordinators. Their work is of significant value to our services. Recent increases applied to the Clinical Nurse/ Midwife Manager 2 (CNM/CMM) scale were a result of the implementation of recommendation 45 of the Expert Review Body (ERB) on Nursing and Midwifery and Labour Court recommendation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the important work carried out by all Clinical Placement Coordinators. Their work is of significant value to our services. Recent increases applied to the Clinical Nurse/ Midwife Manager 2 (CNM/CMM) scale were a result of the implementation of recommendation 45 of the Expert Review Body (ERB) on Nursing and Midwifery and Labour Court recommendation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the important work carried out by all Clinical Placement Coordinators. Their work is of significant value to our services. Recent increases applied to the Clinical Nurse/ Midwife Manager 2 (CNM/CMM) scale were a result of the implementation of recommendation 45 of the Expert Review Body (ERB) on Nursing and Midwifery and Labour Court recommendation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...), eligibility for a medical card is determined by the HSE, which assesses each application on a qualifying financial threshold. Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is a monthly allowance payable to a parent/guardian in respect of a child aged under 16, who has a severe disability or condition and requires continual or continuous care and attention in the home, substantially and above the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Programme for Government (9 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I am pleased to report that my Department has been consistently working to deliver the commitments and priorities set out in the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future. Through the implementation of these commitments, the work of my Department continues to make positive impacts across our economy and society. Through leading on Government policies supporting rural Ireland and...

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Chair and the Senators for inviting me to meet the committee today to discuss the issues relating to the transposition of EU directives. The committee's letter of invitation indicates a wish to discuss the provision of draft statutory instruments to the committee by Departments, as well as the matter of their publication by the committee. I received a letter from the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024) See 10 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 155: In page 108, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: (d) the provision, or facilitation of the provision, of cultural, social and recreational facilities including, but not limited to, arts centres, community centres, libraries, public spaces, public sports facilities, music and event venues, playgrounds and parks,”. This Bill represents a...

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Senators for their points. It is clear this is not a new law that, de facto, will suddenly create a two-tier system or different system. This is a law that has existed since 1956. It is already there and has been used sparingly. As we have heard, it has been used eight times. It is not thrown about willy-nilly. It was challenged and we know the Damache outcome. It was...

Seanad: Better Planning for Local Childcare Provision: Motion (17 Jul 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Emer Currie: I move: "That Seanad Éireann: welcomes: - the extensive commitments by the Government to address long-standing challenges in the early learning and childcare sector and to improve access, affordability, and quality of provision; - the increase to over €1 billion per annum in State funding for the sector this year, including Core Funding, a new model which aims to improve...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024) See 19 other results from this debate

Michael McDowell: The first amendment proposed by Senator Boyhan and me reflects his reasonable nature. I would be more radical than that. I do not believe in ten-year plans. I do not believe in ten-year plans that can be extended to 12 years. In particular, I do not believe in plans of this kind which are effectively pre-cooked by the Office of the Planning Regulator and, in effect, preordained in large...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Timmy Dooley: I am conscious that this is the last Order of Business of this session. However, we are also heading into the budgetary cycle and it is vital that in September we have a debate on the requirements of the budget. I raise the money that will be made available for the recruitment and appointment of gardaí. We have become desensitised to what are often considered minor breaches of the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: Senator McDowell referred to remarks made by way of preliminary comment. We have to have preliminary comment on the scale and size of what we are being asked to review and the absolutely inadequate time allotted to so do. We have heard the serious concern from right across the Opposition in the discussions relating to the Office of the Planning Regulator and this is part of a genuine...

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Jul 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am greatly encouraged to see that Deputy Ó Snodaigh takes the same approach to volunteering as I do, which is that we do enough public service here. I cannot be baking tray-bakes and that. Perhaps when the electorate decides I need more time to bake tray-bakes and volunteer in different ways, I will spend my time doing that as well. In the meantime, I feel like I have a pass and now...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (11 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to thank Deputy O’Rourke for raising this important matter, as I welcome the opportunity to respond to media reports claiming that some waste collection providers may increase household-waste collection charges as a result of the introduction of the deposit return scheme, DRS. The introduction of the DRS for plastic bottles and aluminium cans is a positive...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 were laid before the Houses at the end of June 2024. The year 2023 is the first year that Uisce Éireann has been audited, both by its commercial auditor, Deloitte, and the Comptroller and Auditor General. Those new accountability arrangements were provided for in the Water Services Act 2013, as amended. What is very interesting and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (11 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Violet-Anne Wynne: The work the Minister of State has done on this question is highly interesting and I appreciate it. She has even formulated a bit of a solution to the issue of private rental accommodation. A huge amount of inspections have been done by Clare County Council. I rent and my property has been inspected. I was impressed by how quickly the council conducted the work. There is an issue with...

Deputies Elected as MEPs: Statements (11 Jul 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A Chathaoirligh, Ministers, my fellow newly elected MEPs and, in particular, Noreen Kehoe from our office, who is watching from the Gallery, if you get the privilege of being elected to Dáil Éireann, you enter probably the most famous room in Ireland. When my Labour Party colleagues and I were elected to here in 2011, we were so conscious that every word we uttered in here would be...

Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Jackie Cahill: I am delighted to see this Bill reach Second Stage as Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We carried out pre-legislative scrutiny on this Bill and presented a report to the Minister. I am glad to say that the Minister has taken on board a number of the recommendations that were made by the committee. Usually at committee, there is divisiveness...