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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The budget leads me to think a lot about the recession of 2008 and how this country got back on its feet. Farmers were instrumental in that. Since then, a lot has happened - Brexit, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis. We are not spending the corporation tax. I know the budget delivers an allocation that is reduced by 10% for agriculture. It is disgraceful that at a time when all the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on his Department’s allocation of moneys to the Department of Health in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46955/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on delayed payments to farmers as a result of CAP 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46953/23]

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I would like to welcome the three electricity credits proposed, but I am incredibly disappointed that the Minister has decided to decrease the credit from €200 last year to €150 this year. These decisions should not be taken in isolation and the decision to slash these credits is one that has been roundly condemned by NGOs and charities, especially knowing that the average...

European Parliament Directive on Victims of Crime: Motion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this issue. Too often when the topic of crime and justice is discussed, the focus is on the perpetrator and the crime and the pain and trauma of victims and their families is an afterthought. The European Parliament sought to remedy this imbalance by adopting the victims' rights directive in 2012, which laid out a set of rights and entitlements...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a scheme (details supplied) will extend beyond March 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46956/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 28 February 2023, what land has been made available to the OPW, by local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46957/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I welcome the increase in the income disregard for the carer’s allowance announced in the budget. I, like many colleagues from throughout the House, lobbied extensively on this, so it is a move I warmly welcome. I note the interdepartmental working group and review the Minister mentioned. Like many others, I met representatives of Family Carers Ireland ahead of the budget. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I was delighted to meet Vicky and Fiona from Family Carers Ireland before the budget and we spoke at length about the importance of family carers and how under-appreciated they are. As the Minister knows, unpaid family carers save the State about €20 billion per year, or the equivalent of a second HSE, a point that is timely given the statements taken earlier in the House. Before I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recent changes to the means test for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46416/23]

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Under this Government, UHL has broken yet another record. There were 130 people on trolleys there yesterday, the highest number in the history of the State. That will be the legacy of the Minister for Health and Colette Callan, as CEO of the UL Hospitals Group. The people of the mid-west are dying at the feet of the Government and nothing is being done. Since 19 September, there have...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I will talk about tourism and hospitality because somebody needs to do so and this Government refuses to do so. When this country was coming out of recession, it was tourism and hospitality, alongside agriculture, that led the way, and the Government acknowledged that in the form of the 9% VAT rate. That rate allowed businesses to be bold, to take risks, to improvise and to adapt. As we...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Clare who availed of an additional need's payment since 1 January 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 483. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the test that must be satisfied in order for a person to avail of a fund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46418/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 558. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the success or otherwise of an agreement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46419/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide increased support to community radio in respect of high inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45766/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (19 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on recent statements by the President of the European Commission in support of Israel's breaches of international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46046/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2024 (19 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department's allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46038/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Middle East (19 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 184. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on continued trade with the state of Israel, following its breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46045/23]