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Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...you would find new respect and admiration for disabled lives. Similarly, I welcome the proposal to introduce a guaranteed living wage for carers that is not means-tested and is constitutionally protected. As with its ignorance as to the cost of disability, the Government has shown continually that it has no clue as to what role carers actually provide. Means-testing carers merely...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Mary Butler: .... In terms of the most significant provisions, I highlight the following. The Bill contains a revised approach to involuntary admission and detention, updated criteria for detention, additional safeguards to protect involuntarily admitted people and new consent to treatment provisions closer in alignment to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Acts. It expands the Mental Health...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

...in terms of understanding how we put guardrails around overall lending. On the Deputy’s point, there were issues almost 20 years ago when those guardrails were not in place. They are there to protect all customers and us, especially as we face into affordability challenges like now. Credit being the answer to those affordability challenges is a problem down the line. It is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...arise. I am going to come to some of the proposed terms for the winding up in a moment, but I note what others have said regarding documentation. It is very clear under section 60(7)(b) of the Data Protection Act that one of the reasons whereby the destruction of documents and other obligations under data protection we have heard about today would be suspended and not applied is where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

...answer the Deputy's question, we are reaching saturation from an efficiency point of view. From a safety point of view, obviously that is primary, so what happens is the restrictions are put on to protect the sectors. The net effect is more delays, frankly. In fact, if we go to the next slide, we have indicated here the way forward for 2025 and beyond. We think there are three bits...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...processes involved in its issuance. The Irish passport was recently ranked 3rd in the Henley Global Passport Index as it provides our citizens with visa-free access to 193 countries. In order to protect the integrity of the Irish passport, when processing a first time application, the Passport Service must validate the identity of the applicant and confirm their entitlement to Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (9 Sep 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Act were commenced on 15th February 2024. It has been open to all local authorities since that date to begin the process of putting the required procedures in place to allow for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant use of CCTV and other mobile recording devices to combat litter and illegal dumping. While the primary responsibility for management and enforcement responses...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (9 Sep 2024)

Eamon Ryan: .... In June 2022, with work on the sectoral emissions ceilings almost complete, there were significant refinements to the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) baseline in the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2022 National Inventory Report. These refinements required a deferral on a SEC for LULUCF. Refinements to the estimation of emissions and removals is standard practice...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gambling Sector (9 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...4757 6735 6714* Where the number of cases is less than 10 the exact number is not provided, instead these are presented as ‘<10’. This is in line with Revenue’s , which are in place in order to protect and maintain taxpayer confidentiality. In some cases where the number of cases is not less than 10 it may still be required to suppress the exact number;...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (9 Sep 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Coastal protection and localised flooding issues are matters, in the first instance, for each local authority to investigate and address. To assist local authorities in managing the coastline for coastal erosion, the Office of Public Works (OPW) has undertaken a national assessment of coastal erosion (including erosion rates) under the Irish Coastal Protection Strategy Study (ICPSS). This...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (9 Sep 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...nationally and the scope of services required from consultants to design and construct flood relief schemes. As part of this pilot Donegal County Council have received approval to commence the data collection for the Donegal Town Flood Relief scheme prior to appointing a consultant to progress the scheme. If a viable scheme is identified then funding would be made available for the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (9 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...on 1 January 2024. This entitlement could potentially increase to 7 days up to a maximum of 10 days. Section 6(1) of the Act provides that the Minister can, in consultation with the Minister for Social Protection, vary the number of statutory sick leave days provided for by the Act. When setting the number of days, regard must be given to the state of the economy generally, the business...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: ...divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose. Additionally, Project Ireland 2040 population and housing targets inform the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Programme for Government (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: ...including members of the Traveller Community, those in direct provision, and those who are socio-economically disadvantaged. The DEIS identification model was expanded in 2022 and includes students residing in International Protection Accommodation Services centres, Emergency Orientation and Reception Centres, and those experiencing homelessness. The Department of Further and Higher...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (9 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...1,000,000 €250,000 2023 2029 The Shared Island Invasive Species and Biosecurity Initiative provides a framework to coordinate a Shared Island response to the threat posed by invasive species. The project is implemented by the National Biodiversity Data Centre (NBDC) and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), with oversight from the National Parks and Wildlife...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...2022 sets out the prescribed form to be completed by landlords when applying to register a tenancy in compliance with section 134 of the RTA, which includes a requirement for the landlord’s date of birth. For data protection reasons, the names of landlords and tenants are not published on the RTB’s public register of tenancies. A tenant can refer a dispute for resolution to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...means thresholds for over those aged over 70 increased to €512 per week for a single person over 70 and €1,024 per week for a couple. Applicants aged over 70 no longer need to be receiving a qualifying social protection payment and the threshold for the capital disregard increased from €20,000 to €50,000. For those aged under 70, the means threshold was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...Deputy, all involve: • the costings of measures where a new benefit/service was being offered to a new, and sometimes unknown, cohort of the population. • a costing for which the Department’s data was limited to current recipients or those with whom it offered existing benefits or services. • costings on which the data required to estimate or model the eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1026.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of participants in the most recent period for which data is available on the back to education allowance, on the Work Placement Programme, on JobsPlus, on the Jobs Initiative, on the back to work enterprise allowance, and on the training support grant; and if there are any evaluations conducted which might...