Results 321-340 of 5,573 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On Monday night, a petrol bomb was thrown at a house in Onslow Gardens in Cork city. A number of children were very fortunate to escape without injury. In the past three weeks, there have been two shooting incidents in the city and very many more serious incidents. Communities in Cork city feel neglected and terrified when incidents like this happen. It is not only Dublin that the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Absolutely, but we do not have enough gardaí.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We are not getting enough on the streets.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is effectively what I was expecting. I just wanted to confirm that my understanding was correct. Kudos to whomever spotted it. It seems like a very small part of the estate of Classes Lake on the Ballincollig-Ovens boundary. It is just about within the city council boundary and, therefore, Cork North-West. I just wanted to confirm that is the case and it is all in keeping with it....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Work Projects (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Some of that work is ongoing and I hope it will be forthcoming in the coming period. Some of the objective is to ensure that when that request comes, it receives a favourable and sympathetic response. The context is important. In some respects Carrigaline would be seen as an area which is relatively prosperous and that would be middle class. That is true to a large extent, albeit, as...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Work Projects (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am a big advocate of the youth diversion programme because it makes a huge difference. I am familiar with a number of projects, including the TACT project and I have seen the difference it can make. It offers the right interventions at a crucial juncture. Carrigaline is a town that has grown very rapidly. As recently as the sixties, there were fewer than a thousand people in what was...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Am I right in saying all the amendments grouped relate to sections on deferred pensions and that there are no others in the group? I want to know to give clarity to the discussion.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have a couple of general points. It is absolutely the case that the total contributions approach is fair, particularly to women and those who have had caring responsibilities. In my office, and, I am sure, the offices of the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív and the Leas-Chathaoirleach, we regularly see women who rely on their partners' payments and who are not in a position to get a full...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, but does the buying back, the purchasing of stamps, remain the same?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Off the back of Deputy Ó Cuív's questions, from the point of view of the Pensions Commission, it could be argued that as we currently have both choices, they should be continued. Why not continue with that? Is the cost of administration or the cost of payments the reason not to allow the choice to continue? I imagine it is the cost of payments.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on extending availability of full Parent’s Benefit to Lone Parents 8.The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on extending the availability of the full duration of Parent’s Benefit to lone parents to examine the effect that enabling all...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister. I will examine that report. I will make a couple of points regarding what she pushed back on in respect of transferability. I agree in the instance of two-parent families that it is right that the time be shared, which is the model in many countries. It is very often the case that people will take a chunk of leave and will then change places and take another chunk...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will not press the amendment if the Minister will say that at the next meeting she has with the Department of children this matter will be raised and she will say it was raised at the committee.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In general terms it is a very important payment and it does encourage work, with one exception being one-parent families where their youngest child is over the age of seven. I have never been able to get my head around this issue, to be honest. Why are we forcing people onto a jobseeker's transitional payment when their youngest child is aged seven? I have dealt with constituents who have...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Would it be early or late next year?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Would this be a straw man type of thing?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay. That is good.