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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: ...expanded to include an additional 322 schools. From September 2022, the DEIS programme now provides supports and services to over 240,000 students in circa 1,200 schools. This amounts to a €32 million increase in the Department's expenditure on the DEIS programme from 2023. This is the largest ever single increase in investment in the programme and has extended additional resources...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (15 Dec 2022)

Heather Humphreys: .... The policy recognises the opportunity for rural rejuvenation that remote working presents and commits to establishing a comprehensive and integrated national network of 400 remote working hubs by 2025. In furtherance of this commitment, my Department’s focus to date has been on strategically developing the National Hub Network, the Network's shared online booking platform...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 419 and 425 together. My Department delivers a wide range of strategic interventions, funding programmes, policies and initiatives to support urban and rural communities throughout the country. My Department allocated funding of €323.3 million in 2020, €330.7 million in 2021, and €349.8 million in 2022 to date, across a wide range...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regional Development (15 Dec 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Our Rural Future (2021-2025), Ireland’s Rural Development Policy was launched in early 2021. The policy recognises the opportunity for rural rejuvenation that remote working presents and the potential of remote working hubs as key economic assets for our rural towns and villages. My Department operates a number of funding schemes that focus on projects supporting remote working...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...on the proviso that they develop the land, and do so within the time period specified. A number of weeks ago we began an assessment of the local authority lands. Indeed, Deputy Gould raised the issue of the €300 million debt earlier when I was responding the Deputy's colleague. I know some Deputies were not in the Chamber, so that is just for their own information. We have been...

Seanad: Travel Disruption at Dublin Airport: Statements (14 Dec 2022)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...that is my priority. It is worth recalling why and how the disruption occurred over the weekend at Dublin Airport. Following the cold weather across the weekend, temperatures fell to below -5°C in many parts of the country and the average temperature on Monday evening was -2°C. According to Met Éireann, Ireland experienced its lowest temperatures in 12 years on Monday....

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Mary Butler: ..., which is a long-established and well-supported Government policy for the health insurance market. Currently, over 46% of the population in Ireland hold private health insurance. This amounts to 2.4 million people and represents a total annual premium income of approximately €2.97 billion. Health insurance in Ireland is provided according to the four principles of open...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...changing the €100 fine "that on summary conviction, to a class B fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both, or (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €250,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or to both." This section relates more to the abuse of dog licences than animal welfare, which is the issue I am...

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...and is inherently incapable of doing so; — the Government's policy of encouraging the construction of energy-guzzling data centres, which have accounted for 70 per cent of the increase in metered electricity usage since 2015 and now swallow up 16.5 per cent of total electricity demand, more than all rural homes in the country, has worsened the energy crisis and brought us to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Since 2014, Exchequer funding has also been provided through my Department's Voids Programme to supplement the local authority funding available for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (14 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: Under Project Ireland 2040, the education sector will receive a total of approximately €4.4 billion capital investment over the period 2021-2025. This significant investment allows us to move forward with certainty on our ambitious plans and deliver high quality building projects, with a real focus on sustainability, for school communities across Ireland. This investment will build on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

...and may also be made available to those working on a low income. The budget for additional needs payments is demand-led and is not subject to an overall cap. The Government has provided €46 million for additional needs payments in 2022, which increased to €63.69 million under the Revised Estimates Volume. By far the largest cost component relates to housing, particularly...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Michael McGrath: ..., are set out in section 1 and Schedule 1 to the Bill. These relate to the Revised Estimates and Supplementary Estimates agreed by the Dáil this year. In aggregate, these Estimates amount to €75.1 billion. The comparable sum in the Appropriation Act 2021 was €73.1 billion. The sum to be appropriated this year, therefore, represents an increase of €2 billion,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Funding (13 Dec 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 133. To ask the Taoiseach if the additional €50 million shared island funding announced on 5 December 2022 includes an allocation to the City of Derry Airport for the reopening of the Dublin to Derry route which he discussed with the North West Regional Development Group when he met with representatives earlier in 2022. [61666/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...getting people back to work, accelerating the provision of training, reskilling and upskilling. The Economic Recovery Plan set out an ambition of exceeding pre-crisis employment levels by reaching 2.5 million people in work by the end of 2024 with a two-pronged recovery approach: a focus on domestic SMEs, whilst leveraging and reinforcing the strength and resilience of the Foreign Direct...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Official Travel (13 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...promoting greater ambition, accelerating a shift away from fossil fuel dependence and calling for increased climate finance, with improved accessibility and quality of adaptation finance going to the most vulnerable.  As part of the commitment to provide €225 million per year in climate finance by 2025, a more than doubling of our support, I announced a funding package of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: ...;s website, charts the progress on the implementation of the recommendations made by the taskforce up to and including December 2021. Over 2021 my commitment to the sector was evidenced by funding allocations, among them €25m to pilot a Basic Income Scheme for Artists; record Arts Council funding of €130m and the announcement of a €50 million funding package for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: ...programme in January 2021, I secured additional funding to provide for an extension of SCP supports to 28 additional schools that were included in DEIS for the first time in September 2017 and a 5% overall increase in funding for the school completion programme, effective from September 2021. In addition, I negotiated a further increase of 5% for the SCP under budget 2023. The total...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: ...educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation. This expansion will be supported by an additional €32million investment in the programme from 2023, increasing my Department’s overall spend on the DEIS programme to over €180million. The extension of the DEIS programme...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (13 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...-age childcare workforce and a future funding model for the sector. - An Independent Review of the Cost of Providing Quality Early Learning and Childcare in Ireland was published. - The Government’s First 5 Annual Implementation Report 2019 was published. - In December 2020, the Government approved drafting of the Bill to extend paid Parents’ Leave from two weeks to five as...