Results 81-100 of 23,058 for speaker:Paddy Burke
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: In other words, we do not know how many people nationally have availed of the burial grant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: These figures are not broken down individually in order to show how many people availed of the burial grant, the household-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: How many families or individual funerals does that figure cover? Is there an average or specific amount paid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: Are those individuals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: Is a specific amount paid? Is there a lower or higher amount?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: That is the average.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: The figure was €6 million.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: I want to raise the issue of active travel funding. I ask for a debate in the House on funding for local authorities through the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Last year, I received a letter from members of Mayo County Council. Indeed, I was also contacted by members of other local authorities. They are looking for further funding for active travel and they...
- Seanad: Local Government Matters: Statements (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is a timely time to have a debate on local government as we face into local elections in May or June of 2024. There are many aspects to local government and there have been many changes in local government in the past 20 or 30 years. As someone who was a member of a local authority for 25 years, until the dual mandate came in, I have seen a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: I welcome all the groups and thank them for their submissions. I am not going to be going over the same questions that have been raised by my colleagues. The international poverty line was considered to be $1.15 per day. The World Bank put that up to $2.15 per day. What would the Irish line be? How much would it be per day?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: The line is €318.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: Anybody earning less than that is below the poverty line.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: Does that take into account money that is paid by local authorities for housing? Does it take everything into consideration?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: There was some report stating we are ninth out of 16 in the world or in Europe. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: Which country is at the top?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: We are considered to have a very good social welfare system. Ukrainians seem to be coming here because of the social welfare system, in some cases. However, we are still only ninth out of 16. Our poverty line is €318 per week. I wonder what is the equivalent figure for the country in the No. 1 spot. Of course, the survey takes healthcare and everything into consideration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: Coalition 2030 states that all of this area should be moved to the Department of the Taoiseach. One cannot go any higher than the Department of the Taoiseach. On the other hand, the witness is saying that there should be a future generations commissioner, who would not have any power in the area of developing policy. What would the future generations commissioner do? It is another office...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: Would the future generations commissioner be responsible for trading off, whether it was tax or whatever?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: Would all of the SDGs feed into the future generation commissioner's office? Would that be the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Paddy Burke: It could be another line of bureaucracy as well, could it not?