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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Not yet, but I will.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I echo the comments on the staff of the Department in the offices around the country as well as here in Dublin. I appreciate all the assistance my office receives from them. To start on a positive note, I mention the school meals. This is something I very much believe in and have argued for over a long period. It is very positive to see it happening. There are a few bits and pieces....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Of course.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister has more or less answered my question, but I just want it to be crystal clear. This is something I support and agree with. There was previously the straw man and there have been changes since, but is it the Department's position now that the payment will be the €450 cap-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----or 60%-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----and up to nine months on a staged basis?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, but the €5 million is premised on those calculations.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate that. It is useful. I am conscious of what the Minister announced about the PRSI roadmap related to this. An awful lot of people would have been hoping for the restoration of the right to retire at 65 years as part of the roadmap. There is a payment, but it is less than the pension payment. Many people were hoping for this. Certainly, it was a major issue over the past...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will send any cases. It is primarily that most people who are on the partial capacity will have come off from invalidity benefit. It is possible to get it off the illness benefit but it is not very common. The cases possibly would have related to periods when people were off sick for a month or two and are gradually returning to work.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If the Minister is willing to look at the benefits for those aged 65 and if she agrees to look at situations where people have been working on their feet I do not see why there is not a right to retire at the age of 65 and a right to have a State pension at 65.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I do not have any lanes and cannot engage in one-upmanship with anyone. In any event, I have two questions. First, is there going to be another round of community halls funding this year? We had a discussion recently in the context of CLÁR and RAPID programmes. Obviously the RAPID programme is not currently in operation, but one contributor, who may have been from the Western...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay. I will give you the context. It is in the Mahon area. The south east of the city does not currently have a library. Mahon would have been a RAPID area. There is substantial disadvantage there. The library is proposed to be a new build on an existing school site. The school could avail of it but it would have its own entrance and would be open to the public. It is going to...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If I can come in with two more brief points, it was popular and other communities are now saying they we might like a go at it. I am sure you will make an announcement if and when that is going to come but at the minute there is nothing announced. The Minister is not saying there will not be another round but there is nothing at this moment. On community recognition funding, which I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether there is a national policy which requires adults moving into a local authority home to have been on the housing list before being accepted on to the rent book. [50637/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regeneration Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 15. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the Towns First policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49715/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (14 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 9. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will advise of the recent engagement her Department had with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on remote working to support rural workers and communities, in view of the recent passing of legislation that will provide the legal right to request remote working; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Library Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 3. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development about the need to provide capital funding for new library buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 4. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there will be a round of community halls funding; when this will be; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50006/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (14 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 14. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there will be another round of the Community Recognition Fund in 2024. [49717/23]