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Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Collins: ...alternative housing for them to fall back on. The RTB stated that it received 9,000 active notices to quit due to the lifting of the eviction ban. The estate agents, Sherry Fitzgerald, estimate 15,000 tenancies this year will be lost. The councils admit they have little or no emergency accommodation places left. The Simon Community and other NGOs say their services are already...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (18 Apr 2023)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 351, 352, 353, 354, 355 and 356 together. The Debt Warehousing scheme allows for the deferral of the payment of VAT, PAYE (Employer) and certain self-assessed income tax liabilities, including TWSS and EWSS overpayments. It provided a vital liquidity support to businesses during the Covid pandemic and continues to support businesses as they recover from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: ...need. NEPS works closely with the HSE and its agencies to ensure those who may require the provision of therapy or counselling are referred on to the appropriate clinical services for intervention and support. I announced in the budget, an additional 54 educational psychologists to provide services to special schools and special classes as part of budget 2023. I also announced in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 573 and 574 together. The Department of Education plays an important role in supporting the wellbeing and mental health of our children and young people. The Department’s Wellbeing Policy and Framework for practice has given recognition to the importance of promoting wellbeing in education. The approach set out in the Wellbeing Policy is a whole...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 Apr 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...full advantage of the education provided to them.  The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Budget 2023 provided €94.4 million for the programme.  The Government recently approved an additional €14.5m to allow access to the Hot School Meals scheme for all remaining DEIS schools from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Misuse of Drugs (18 Apr 2023)

Simon Harris: ...in the area of drugs, and this policy is guided by the national drugs and alcohol strategy 'Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery - a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025'. This strategy represents a whole-of-Government response to this problem area in Ireland. I can assure the Deputy that An Garda Síochána are aware of the issues surrounding...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (18 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: ...on supporting the sales and promotion of inshore species such as Irish crab, lobster, whelks, inshore herring/mackerel and line caught hake and pollock on both the domestic and export markets. €1 million in funding has been provided through the Brexit Adjustment Reserve to support the initial two years of the Scheme and Bord Bia fully utilised the €0.5m allocated in 2022,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of oral healthcare services and patients of all ages are waiting longer than they should have to, to access care. I am responding to this by an unprecedented allocation of an additional €15 million in Budget 2023 to enhance the provision of oral healthcare services. This includes €5 million allocated on a one-off basis to support the HSE Public Dental Service to provide care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...assists patients to access emergency dental treatment by directly contacting private contractors or arranging treatment to be provided by HSE-employed dentists. An additional allocation of €15 million has been made in Budget 2023 to enhance the provision of oral healthcare services. This includes €5 million allocated on a once-off basis to support the HSE Public Dental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...assists patients to access emergency dental treatment by directly contacting private contractors or arranging treatment to be provided by HSE-employed dentists. An additional allocation of €15 million has been made in Budget 2023 to enhance the provision of oral healthcare services. This includes €5 million allocated on a once-off basis to support the HSE Public Dental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1747. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 637 of 5 October 2021 and 234 of 22 March 2023, if he will provide an exact breakdown of the service costs of €3.65 million for the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton during 2021, in tabular form; the details of the staff salary costs per clinician and other workers; the details of non-pay costs for that year; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...actions in the Plan, which are governed by the Waiting List Task Force, focus on delivering capacity, reforming scheduled care and enabling scheduled care reform. For 2023, funding totalling €443 million is being allocated to tackle Waiting Lists with €363 million of this being allocated to the 2023 Waiting List Action Plan, to implement longer term reforms and provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Addiction Services (18 Apr 2023)

Simon Harris: My Department has allocated €5 million to the Higher Education Authority for mental health and well-being services this year in Higher Education Institutes. As autonomous bodies, the internal disbursement of mental health and well-being funding, including the funding of student services, such as support for people dealing with gambling addiction, is a matter for each Institute so...

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...by processors. This is something we must focus on. It is difficult for people to understand that there is no payment at all for 2 kg of the dead weight of a sheep. For example, for a hogget weighing 25 kg, the factories pay for 23 kg and nothing more. The extra carcass weight does not get dumped so the processors have a serious advantage. The restrictions for lamb are even tighter....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: ..., which Members in the House will not want to accept, is the extraordinary increase in population in the past decade or so. That has been a significant factor. Notwithstanding that we built 35,000 houses last year, a 45% increase on the previous year, on which Covid had an impact, the reality is we now have more than 5 million people. Some 40,000 additional people came in via work...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (30 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to our country. The Government greatly appreciates the work of Family Resource Centres funded by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. Tusla Core funding to the Athlone FRC in 2019 was €105,073 and has risen to €114,739 for 2023. Caraphort FRC over the same years has gone from €94,910 to €103,641. These were challenging years and FRCs continued to perform...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (30 Mar 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and success for Irish Travellers in Higher Education. The most recent National Access Plan sets out the situation starkly. 1% of Travellers have a third level qualification, compared to 55% of the population. Collectively, we need to do much better. Gathering accurate data on Irish Traveller participation in higher education is difficult and is highly dependent on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...provide growth capacity in smaller settlements that would otherwise not be provided for in Uisce Éireann’s capital investment plan. I understand from Uisce Éireann that an allocation of almost €100 million for this programme was approved by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. Uisce Éireann is working with local authorities across the country in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...order to improve educational outcomes for children. HSCL supports are available to non DEIS schools, such examples include: a pilot project which supports Traveller and Roma pupils in approximately 50 schools, This comprises of 1 HSCL, 2 community education workers and 1. Educational welfare officer. My Department has also allocated 10 HSCL Coordinator posts in 14 non-DEIS post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: There has been an unprecedented increase in State investment in early learning and childcare since 2015, albeit from a low base. Over the period 2015-2018, investment increased by 84 per cent – rising from €265 million per annum to €485 million per annum. This increased investment provided for a doubling of State-funded pre-school under the ECCE Programme –...