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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (29 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...interest or the ability to do so. While the scheme would be better off in the Department of Transport, that is another day of work. The Department of Education runs a scheme in which it tenders and creates a route for a school, if it has enough children who require school transport, according to where those children live and so on. That is not going to meet the needs that are being...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (29 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...get us a long way. I saw the Minister was in Noonan's Road recently. I was glad to see that. I hope Government funding for that project will remain strong. The Minister is familiar with Cork and he may be familiar with the greater Douglas area. It is an area that has seen enormous growth in the past 20 years or so. There is a very large young population in the locality and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is a good place to puck off. The Barnardo's report published this morning highlights the risks of poverty that exist for many families. People with disabilities and single-parent households remain most at risk. I have a number of questions. Before posing them, I take this opportunity to thank Ms Skelly for her contribution, which reflected the fact that we have a number of matters...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...session. I would like to ask HCCI about that point, which has been really well made. I have talked to somebody from the Citizens Information Board who highlighted how the policy is arbitrary and illogical. Can our guests state whether there is a sense of what additional capacity would be created by a shift in the policy?

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I cannot tell the Minister of State how many times I have been in the following situation: I knock on a door and say, "How are you? We are canvassing for Sinn Féin. What issues are important to you?" The person says, "Come in here 'til I show you." They bring me into the house, upstairs and into the kitchen and they show me black all along the walls. I can feel the cold. I touch...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of increasing maternity benefit to cover the first 12 months of a child’s life; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23601/24]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the change to the availability of post-partum services in CUH was reduced from parents of a child aged up to ten months down to four months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23656/24]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...To ask the Minister for Health the number of parents of children aged between four to ten months were on the list when the change to the availability of post-partum services in CUH was introduced; and if these parents received an appointment. [23657/24]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of parents who availed of post-partum services in CUH in 2022 and 2023 who had a child aged between four to ten months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23658/24]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 432. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of the waiting list for post-partum services in the CUH; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23659/24]

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...said. It is vitally important we ensure no room for manoeuvre exists for people who will look to exploit the system, or will look to not give some categories of workers their full entitlements, and that we work to avoid that. The points were well made. I welcome Deputy Ó Cathasaigh's amendments and commend him on them. I also commend the Minister on taking them on board. It shows...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I do not understand the Department's objection to this because it seems to be a departure from prior policy. Apart from the fact that predecessors of the pension board would have had representatives in this arena, the fiduciary duties and responsibility to board are a red herring. Ultimately, once anyone who is nominated by an appropriate nominating body goes on a board, their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection who will be responsible for the review into payments for migrants both from Ukraine and elsewhere; the Departments or State bodies that will be represented at the meetings; the format it will take; the number of meetings that will be held; if the conclusions will be published; if it will consider international comparators...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for justice the current Government policy regarding the status of those who have fled war in Ukraine following the lapse of the temporary protection directive in March 2023. [23036/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 8 May 2024, to provide a breakdown of the capital and current budget allocations for each programme under subhead E4 of the revised estimates for 2023 and 2024 respectively, in tabular form. [23065/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 8 May 2024, to provide a detailed breakdown of subhead E4 by programme categories, as was provided for the E5 subhead programme breakdown in Parliamentary Question No. 436 of 8 May 2024 [23067/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 436 of 8 May 2024, to provide a breakdown of the capital and current budget allocations for each programme under subhead E5 of the revised estimates for 2023 and 2024 respectively, in tabular form. [23066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 8 May 2024, to detail the outputs in 2023 under subhead E4 based on the revised estimates allocation and the final allocation for subhead E4 in 2023, including the number of IPAS beds funded and a breakdown of the same across State-owned accommodation and commercial...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 436 of 8 May 2024, to detail the outputs in 2023 under subhead E5 based on the financial allocation under the revised estimates and the final allocation for subhead E5 in 2023, including the number of temporary protection accommodation beds funded and the breakdown of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing each weekly social welfare payment to meet the minimum essential standard of living for 2024 as detailed by an organisation (details supplied) in tabular form. [22436/24]