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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (7 Mar 2023)

Pa Daly: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review of roles and responsibilities within the National Ambulance Service. [11136/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2023)

Pa Daly: 655. To ask the Minister for Health his views in relation to the lack of public urology services in Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11456/23]

Employment Equality (Pay Transparency) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2023)

Pa Daly: I thank the Minister for the fact the Bill is unopposed. We are open to working with him and with any of the other Senators who are working on this issue. In my own experience at work, although I did not do very many employment law cases, anyone who came in with a problem in the workplace was not unionised and they had been messed around because there was no backup for them in the...

Employment Equality (Pay Transparency) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2023)

Pa Daly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." A couple of years ago a good old friend and colleague came to me with a story of her friend, Mike. He had got first class honours as a mature student when he returned to college and a job came up in Dublin, to where he travelled, at his own expense, only to discover when he arrived for the interview that the rates of pay would be far less...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Mar 2023)

Pa Daly: Eligibility for the tenant purchase scheme has evolved over the years and continues to evolve. However, a widow recently contacted me to say she had made an application to purchase the house she has lived in for the past 30 years, after she lost her husband, only to be told that, because she is on a widow's pension, she is excluded from the scheme because a State pension is regarded as...

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2023
Vóta 33 - An Ghaeltacht (Athbhreithnithe) (1 Mar 2023)

Pa Daly: Fearaim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit dá chéad chruinniú anseo agus tá súil agam go mbeimid ag obair le chéile i rith na bliana seo chugainn. Tá ceist ghairid agam dó mar gheall ar Údarás na Gaeltachta. Tá súil agam go mbeidh toghchán ag teacht an bhliain seo chugainn. Feicim go bhfuil méadú sa...

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2023
Vóta 33 - An Ghaeltacht (Athbhreithnithe) (1 Mar 2023)

Pa Daly: Bíonn an tAire Stáit ar Radio Kerry níos minice ná mise.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the ineligibility of those on a widow’s pension, rather than a State pension, for the tenant purchase scheme; and if he will outline any plans he has to reform this anomaly. [9670/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (28 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of voids brought back into the housing stock in the year 2022; and the number of these that were previously vacant for longer than six months, in tabular form, broken down by local authority. [9933/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (23 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on projects currently under progress under TII’s greenway funding programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9348/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (23 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on projects that have been funded under TII’s greenway funding programme but have yet to commence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9349/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: I will share time with Deputies Ward and Paul Donnelly. Tógfaidh mé deich nóiméad dom féin. I commend the Minister of State's speech, which is excellently written. I will deal with a few things within in. There is reference in it to assisting people with mental health and addiction conditions. As we know, I believe there were 7,000 call-outs to An Garda...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: I listened while others were talking about the upcoming anniversary. There is another anniversary coming up, as the Taoiseach is aware, with regard to Ballyseedy. People may or may not know of the incident, nearly 100 years ago, when eight prisoners were taken from custody, tied to a landmine and blown up. I recently spoke to the nephew of one of the men who was killed. He is upset that,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (22 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: I read the Minister of State's reply, but what is not stated is the average length of time it takes Kerry County Council to turn around a vacant house. I understand that we have to deal with families and that there are items left behind, which is sometimes the case. In Tobar Naofa, there are ten units are vacant. One vacant house facing onto the Dean's Lane side of the complex has been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (22 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: In the dying days of Tralee Town Council, there was a focus on housing for the elderly. A scheme was enacted in respect of land at the rear of an old convent in the centre of town that was gifted by the Sisters of Mercy. The development there is called Tobar Naofa. I visited the area last week. There are 56 housing units constructed to the highest specifications, with their own heating...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: Last Friday I was in the Mitchels area of Tralee. I visited an award-winning social housing scheme for older people of 56 houses. I was informed that ten of those houses are empty and another four have been unoccupied for more than three years because the tenants are part of the fair deal scheme and have been in a nursing home for up to three years. Almost 25% of the houses in this scheme,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: In relation to amendment No. 4, it is more or less the same. The way that it is defined at the moment is that ""hatred" means hatred against a person or a group". It is just to flesh out the definition in a more comprehensive way.