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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that will be dedicated to temporary protection accommodation in each of the years 2024 to 2026, in tabular form. [20394/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the number of offers that his Department has received by private landowners and developers to build modular homes for accommodating beneficiaries of temporary protection; the estimated number of planned units contained within such offers; and the average cost per unit across the offers put forward,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of State-owned modular homes overseen by the Office of Public Works that have been delivered; the average cost per unit in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and to provide a breakdown of the average capital costs of land and site servicing and costs of building and materials...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of State-owned modular units that are currently in development; to specify the stage of development of each project; and the estimated average capital cost per project and per unit, in tabular form. [20397/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many of the six reception centres targeted under the 2021 White Paper on Ending Direct Provision have been delivered to date; how many further are in development; the estimated number of persons that may be accommodated under the reception centres delivered to date and those in development, respectively;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 443. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many of the 75 urban renewal units targeted under the 2021 White Paper on Ending Direct Provision have been delivered to date; how many more are in development; to provide a breakdown of those built and those purchased; the estimated number of persons that may be accommodated under the units delivered and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 444. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many applicants of international protection have been accommodated under the hosting in the community accommodation strand, as outlined under the 2021 White Paper on Ending Direct Provision. [20400/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 447. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the rationale of his Department’s targeted IPAS capacity of 35,000 by 2028 for arrivals of 13,000-16,000 per annum under the ‘Comprehensive Accommodation Strategy for International Protection Applicants’ – specifying, in tabular form, the estimated duration of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 445. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the 13,000 State-owned IPAS units targeted by 2028 under the ‘Comprehensive Accommodation Strategy for International Protection Applicants’ that will be dedicated to reception and integration centres and accommodation centres respectively; and the estimated number of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of how many of the 11,000 commercially owned contingency accommodation units targeted by 2028 under the ‘Comprehensive Accommodation Strategy for International Protection Applicants’ are estimated to be delivered through the acquisition of new IPAS centres;...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I fully support Deputy Sherlock's amendment. In the past, predecessors of the Pensions Board would have had representatives of workers, and that is vitally important. It is not exactly a new departure. Deputy Sherlock has identified existing legislation where it occurs and I think several pieces of legislation specify that the Irish Congress of Trade Unions would be an appropriate...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We are in danger of overly complicating matters. To some extent, this is a break with previous practice. In the Minister's opinion, board members must have knowledge and experience of matters relating to the interests of employees. That could be an employment lawyer who has occasionally represented workers but spent most of their life representing employers. That is a legitimate pursuit,...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I support both amendments but I am primarily speaking to Deputy Ó Cathasaigh's amendment. It is very rational and logical. While I disagree with a fundamental element of who is responsible for the investment, auto-enrolment is crucial in the long term. We need to consider the types of investment that are made, both for those beneficiaries in the industry but also the wider social...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If the amendment is being withdrawn, it may be immaterial for now but Deputy Sherlock made a good point. It is important that there are not people who lose out in terms of the employer contribution. The Minister is saying that where it is already through payroll deduction, they will get the benefit of the employer contributions. That is what I understood.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, but my understanding of what the Minister is saying, in the minority of cases where a PRSA comes through payroll, that they cannot have AE.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is what is at issue here.