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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the current young jobseeker’s rate of €129.70 per week by an additional €5 per week. [23959/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the jobseeker’s transitional payment scheme age cut-off to 18 years of age. [23960/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the one-parent family payment scheme age cut-off to 14 years of age. [23961/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients of the benefit for over-65s; the full year cost of this scheme in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23962/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the weekly payment rate for carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit to €325 per week, by payment in tabular form. [23963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional €10 per week payment to all recipients of disability-related social welfare payments in total, and by payment type, in tabular form. [23965/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 447. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the situation facing residents (details supplied); the action he proposes to take to ensure that the residents are protected and can remain in place; and if he intends to ensure the HSE re engages to find a fair solution. [23769/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 448. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to review the payments to nursing homes, both private and public, both in regard to those payments and to wage levels in the sector. [23770/23]

Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am conscious of not trying to be a nuisance but I imagine it was anticipated that both the previous debate and this debate would have continued for longer. I would say that is it. Is there any scope in the Standing Order?

Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Táimid ag tacú leis an reachtaíocht seo, cé go bhfuil sí gairid. Is reachtaíocht thábhachtach í agus tabharfaimid gach cabhair don Bhille seo dul trí na Tithe, chun cúnamh a thabhairt do theaghlaigh agus leanaí ar fud an Stáit. This Bill is needed to facilitate, and give legislative effect to, the €100 cost-of-living payment...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom tréaslú leo siúd a ghlac páirt sa tuarascáil seo. The men and women who took part in this survey, difficult and all as it may have been, did us all a huge service because we have for some time been trying to grapple with the scale and frequency of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. This data is crucial as an underpinning for any policies and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay of approval to purchase a shareholding (details supplied). [23327/23]

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will focus on two areas. First is the skills shortages around renewable energy, wind energy in particular, but also apprenticeships more generally. In late 2021, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment published Skills for Zero Carbon, which was produced by its expert group on future skills. It looked to assess in exact detail how many people, doing what kind of jobs would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for attending today. With the NTA present I am tempted to start talking about Bus Connects but I will stick to the brief. Having listened to other members raising issues I agree with Senator Garvey that the issue of bus shelters seems to be a very tortuous process. It can be extremely slow. It is not unlike a number of other issues in this regard, where multiple...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In case Ms Graham has not understood me, I will clarify what I mean by "once-off". I am not talking about someone organising an event for, say, next Thursday; I am talking about an event held once a week, say, every Thursday or Saturday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is encouraging. I appreciate it. It is positive to hear. The app-based stuff sounds good but it is vital that the people on the other end of the phone have local knowledge. I am anticipating a dispute between a customer and someone based in Dublin about the name of a crossroads. It is important that people have local knowledge when they pick up the phone.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the interest rates charged for the local authority home loan are set on the date one draws down one’s loan rather than on the date that the mortgage offer is received. [22125/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Stations (9 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ballincollig is a place that has grown from not much more than a village 40 or 50 years ago to one of the biggest towns in Ireland. There are well over 20,000 people there and when the census results come out, there could be 25,000 people. The fire service has been there for much of that time but the growth in the area has significantly overtaken the station. It is important to understand...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Stations (9 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Two points arise here. The first concerns the WRC. The firefighters are telling us that they have been to the WRC on two occasions about issues relating to this so there is no lack of engagement on their part but, unfortunately, it has not borne fruit. The Minister of State is not wrong. It is to a large extent a local government function. I appreciate that but we came here with a...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — unsustainably high grocery and food bills continue to put workers and families under significant financial pressure; and — this pressure has been exacerbated by the failure of the Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath TD, and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform,...