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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the tender for EmployAbility which was due to be published in April 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18471/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what steps she intends to take regarding the extent of the backlog in processing disability allowance claims. [18474/24]

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Tosóidh mé le ráiteas a bhfuil soiléir ach is fiú é a rá, ar aon chor. Níl aon duine ag fáil liúntas na ndaoine atá an Roinn ag tabhairt cúnamh dóibh de bharr go bhfuil sé furasta nó go bhfuil siad compordach. Tá siad á ndéanamh toisc go bhfuil sé...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe go léir. Ó thaobh na faidhbe atá ann, cúpla bliain ó shin, thosaigh an Roinn an córas seo go raibh sé ag iarraidh a dhéanamh amach cá raibh borradh ó thaobh daonra ann agus conas pleanáil a dhéanamh ó thaobh cá háit a mbeadh na scoileanna. I gcoitinne, tá roinnt...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Chaill mé píosa cainte Fhrainc Uí Chlochartaigh mar sin ní raibh a fhios agam faoin iarratas. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil feachtas i gCaisleán an Bharraigh agus déanaim comhghairdeas leo. Is ceantair é áit a mbeadh an-éileamh ann freisin.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Cinnte.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Garrán na mBráthar.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: An féidir liom supplementary an-ghairid a chur? Cá háit a dtéann na leanaí ó Oileán Chléire ar scoil faoi láthair? Níl ann ach dalta amháin, beirt nó triúr gach bliain.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá sé sin thar barr. Fair play to you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Apologies; I had to depart for a while. Ironically, the discussion in the Dáil currently is about the means testing of carer's allowance and the potential for a participation income. I have a few questions and some general observations. Previously, I made the point in the abstract that if one has a properly progressive system of taxation and one can look at it in terms of two lines,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will join them in that case. Dr. Griffin also identified the cliff edges. Fuel allowance eligibility is all or nothing; either you qualify or you do not. We discussed fuel poverty recently in that regard. There are a lot of people who one would reasonably expect to get three quarters or half of the fuel allowance. To follow my point through to its conclusion, to have a properly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes. I can kind of think we might have been better off if Tony Blair had been a little bit more cautious with regard to the advice he received on the Middle East, but anyway. I take the point made by Dr. Griffin. In general terms it is true and there is a caution here that needs to be considered. It raises another few questions. I have another comment on a point made earlier. I am not...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is politics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have limited time, but as this is the first opportunity in these Houses to have a substantive debate about these proposals, I might outline some of my thoughts and those of my party. First, the Irish people recognise the importance of ensuring that people who are fleeing war and conflict receive protection. They also expect that a system is efficient, fair, decent and enforceable and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is important that we have a sense of that. The Minister has outlined her intention to bring forward primary legislation, but a bit like the general data protection regulation, GDPR, ultimately until primary legislation is needed and after that point, the regulation stands. It is legally enforceable and has direct legal effect. That is important. It will be in 2026. I thank the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: To clarify, no consideration was given to being selective.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay, just to be clear. On the latter part of the question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: People would find it surprising that no consideration was given. Whatever about the ultimate conclusion the Government arrived at, people would find that surprising, given that the initial negotiations on this began under, at least constitutionally, a different Government, albeit one that had many of the same policies. They began under a different parliament and a different Commission and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate that, but the Minister was not the Minister for Justice eight years ago. The European Commission was not the same eight years ago. The State perhaps, although it was constitutionally a different Government, had a particular position, but it is not the appropriate approach or a logical or sensible approach to simply assume that we have been working together all this time so we...