Results 121-140 of 60,156 for 2021

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (28 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028 commits to extending regulation and supports to all paid, non-relative childminders who work in their own homes. The National Action Plan sets out a phased approach to regulation with a preparatory phase followed by an extended transition period, to allow childminders lead-in time for any requirements. This supportive, phased process aims to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...continually reviewed across Europe where the number of conditions screened for varies significantly. For example, the UK currently screens for a similar number of conditions as Ireland. However, as noted by HIQA in their 2021 ‘Review of processes in use to inform the expansion of newborn blood spot Screening programmes’, international comparisons of the range of conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (28 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 466 to 468, inclusive, together. The State is committed to providing timely access to new and innovative medicines to all patients. Budgets 2021 - 2023 provided almost €100 million of dedicated funding for new drugs. This enabled the HSE to approve 148 new drugs, 61 of which are for cancer. This brings the total spend on Cancer drugs in the last 3...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...for children and adolescents up to age 18 with moderate to severe ADHD. I am aware that prior to the inception of the National Clinical Programme (NCP) for Adults with ADHD which I launched in 2021, there were no specific ADHD public services available for Adults in Ireland. The NCP for ADHD is delivered as part of the HSE’s mental health service provision to ensure an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (28 May 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...in 2020. The table outlines the funding by my Department to the ICHEC per each year from 2020-2024. DFHERIS Funding for ICHEC 2020-2024 Year 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Amount (€000) €2,747 €2,832 €2,832 €4,432 €4,432

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (28 May 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...of socio-economic progress and regional development, in particular encouraging regional economic development and indigenous and Foreign Direct Investment. TUS was established on 1 October 2021, the third TU to be created since 2019. With a student population of approximately 14,000 supported by nearly 2,000 staff, TUS encompasses six campuses spread across four counties: two in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...CLÁR has provided funding of over €70 million for almost 2,400 projects under a range of different measures. As requested, please find below a table detailing funding approved to each county under CLÁR 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. This information relates to the amount approved under each annual iteration of the scheme rather than in the calendar year. For example, some...

Report of the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Motion (23 May 2024)

Paul Kehoe: ...supports in schools as a matter of national concern warranting examination in a considered and sensitive manner. This comes on foot of earlier work carried out by the committee, including the joint committee's 2021 report on school bullying and the impact on mental health and the 2022 report Leaving Certificate Reform: The Need for a New Senior Cycle. As a starting point, we acknowledged...

Business Support Package: Statements (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...are struggling, it is not because of the cost of workers. According to his figures, in hospitality, the gross profit divided by the number of employees in 2019 was €6,100 per employee per year. By 2021, it had gone up to €10,900 per employee. In 2019, it was €11,600; in 2020, it was €15,900; and in 2021, it was €17,500. Workers generate profit and...

Emergency Price Controls Bill 2024: First Stage (23 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...prices began to slowly fall in late 2023, households are still paying far more for energy than they were two years ago. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, recently stated that a return to 2021 prices is unlikely. The Government has said that the energy credits were temporary or one-off payments. It is therefore expecting ordinary working people to shoulder the burden of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (23 May 2024)

Dara Calleary: ..., including those relating to defence-related exports and the export of dual-use goods. Controls on the export of dual-use items are administered by my Department in accordance with Regulation No. 2021/821 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which set up an EU regime for the control of exports, brokering, technical assistance, transit and transfer of dual-use items. As the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (23 May 2024)

Peter Burke: .... This record level shows how we can be competitive again by having high-quality housing for all of our people. A further critical point is in regard to the reduction in emissions by 2% since 2021. This challenges our economists. It shows that we can grow our economy and reduce our carbon footprint in tandem. The emissions are going down while the economy is growing. This is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: .... In 2020 and 2021, in response to particular circumstances relating to the pandemic, temporary once-off places were created. In nursing, 134 places were created in 2020 and 205 were created in 2021. Recognising the requirement for systemic expansion, substantial permanent expansion has been introduced in more recent years, with 135 nursing and midwifery places created in 2022 and a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (23 May 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Ireland's national AI strategy, AI - Here for Good, launched in 2021, outlines how Ireland can be an international leader in the use of artificial intelligence to benefit the economy and society. The strategy is founded on three core principles, namely, adopting a human-centric approach to the application of AI, staying open and adaptable to new innovations and ensuring good governance to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Projects (23 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...programme in line with Project Ireland 2040, the national planning framework and the NDP. The Government has earmarked €5.1 billion for capital spending on new national roads projects from 2021 to 2030 as part of the NDP. This funding will enable improved regional accessibility across the country as well as compact growth, which are key national strategic outcomes. The Senator...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

John McGahon: The Order of Business is No. 1, Private Members' business, Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021 - Order for Committee Stage and Committee Stage, to be taken at 11.45 a.m.

Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Order for Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Murphy: I know people would understand there is a risk with the job. Why was there such an increase in overtime payments in 2022 versus 2021?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...correspondence. No. R2599, from Ms Helen Brophy, general director, Institute of Public Administration, IPA, and dated 10 May 2024, provides to the committee an explanatory note under Circular 24/2021 on the timely production, submission and laying before the Houses of the Oireachtas of the annual accounts of bodies and funds. We wrote to the IPA because we were concerned about the...