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Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

David Cullinane: ...place a yellow-pack assessment of need, changed the standard operating procedure and pretended that it was reducing the waiting list, providing a lesser assessment of need. Again, the High Court examined that and said, "I am sorry, that is not the assessment of need under the Act." It set it aside, and what have we seen? The waiting lists have gone up since. That was very callous and...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Butler: ...As we all know, this work cannot be done overnight, and the Bill that is before us today is the result of years of hard work. The matters that have been raised by Deputies during this debate will continue to be examined in great detail on Committee Stage, and I look forward to engaging in further discussions. In case anybody did not hear this yesterday, we currently have 211 authorised...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Sep 2024)

Brendan Howlin: .... There are more than enough safeguards in the Act to ensure that legal aid is not used to fund frivolous or spurious actions. The Minister of State has indicated that there are three more amendments to come. Introducing fundamental principles on Committee Stage that have not been examined during pre-legislative scrutiny or on Second Stage is not a good way to make law.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Just to bring a bit of reality to this conversation, the Deputy will know that the previous Minister for Finance appointed Dr. Donal de Buitléir to undertake an independent examination of the standard fund threshold, which was reduced in 2014. As a Government, our main focus in respect of pensions, particularly for middle-income workers, is to ensure that they have pension provisions...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...for a long period and now find themselves, through no fault of their own, being issued with notices to quit are coming on the market. At this stage, we need the Minister and Ministers of State to examine the possibility of introducing something that applies specifically to persons in such emergency situations with a view to taking them out of the homeless market. They have done their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Thomas Byrne: ...Deputy O’Sullivan - there is a mismatch between the demand and the funding available. The demand is €660 million. The funding available is approximately €120 million. We are going to have to examine that carefully. They are being assessed at the moment. In relation to regional projects, some entities have applied for regional funding, which deals with larger...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...of tourism requires that appropriate balance is achieved between the short- and long-term rental sectors. The Department of housing is the Department responsible for the planning system and is examining how best the planning system requirements can be implemented in those areas where housing demand pressure is not high but where rural tourism, in particular, is a strong feature of the...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...That detailed, specific and area-focused analysis will also guide the development of a supply policy, which is also being developed by the supply management unit. As part of this policy development, the unit is examining whether some element of public provision should be introduced alongside private provision, as recommended by the expert group on the new funding model, Partnership for...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to examine the Bill. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and her officials for their work on this important legislation. We in Fianna Fáil believe in the delivery of fundamental health services to the highest standard through investment, innovation and reform. We support the Bill, which will give effect to recommendations of the expert group review...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

John McGuinness: ...with one spend of a Department or another. I have always advocated for the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General to be extended to include local government and to include the ability to examine any allocation by the State to a body to spend that arises from taxpayers’ money. If that ability to investigate was there and it was made clear in application forms and everything...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Bernard Durkan: ...and entertainment trade about the domestic economy, you will discover that many are in difficulty. Restaurants and cafés are closing down. That may well be for a multiplicity of reasons. We need to examine carefully what are the input costs that are causing the problem. A complaint we hear regularly is that increases in the minimum wage do not necessarily impact only on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: Welcome back, Deputy Barry. The Minister is instead examining ways to ensure that funding is provided so that front-line services can be maintained. We will continue to work with Deputies in Cork and Kerry on this matter.

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) See 3 other results from this debate

Catherine Murphy: ...many others on the list. I remember getting a very heavily redacted document that stated a number of very large transactions were poorly prosecuted. What is the possibility of those records being examined by scholars, journalists, and members of the public? What timeframe are we talking about? Maybe I could ask a second question when Mr. Carville has responded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerry Horkan: In ten, 20 or 50 years' time, as airspace becomes increasingly saturated, maybe those will all be examined.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ..., be a great consultation. There will be no more of that kind of nonsense. We will have a policy decision and that is where this issue is supposed to rest. Regarding people who have had cataract examinations, are on waiting lists but whom we cannot facilitate, those people cannot wait for those lists to expire. There are one or two cases I have made representations about repeatedly and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...of sub-minimum rates, and following the publication of Deputy Paul Murphy’s Private Members’ Bill, the then Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Varadkar, asked the Low Pay Commission to again examine the issue of sub-minimum pay and to make recommendations to him on whether these rates should be abolished, amended or retained. The Low Pay...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (9 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Programme for Government have been completed. The relevant government departments are now drafting detailed responses to the Dublin Citizens' Assembly and the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Drugs Use held its first meeting on 13th June to examine the report of that Citizens' Assembly and will report back to the Houses of the Oireachtas on its...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Air Navigation Orders (9 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...aircraft to a point in Israel. It is important to note that these exemptions are not granted to nation states, rather they are granted to civil air operators. The Department of Transport is now examining these reports, including through engaging with the carrier concerned. It is important that we take the time to establish the facts of what has happened, and this is the urgent work that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (9 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...policy. In 2023, and to date in 2024, no applications have been received or exemptions granted for the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft to a point in Israel. The Department of Transport is now examining these media reports, including through engaging with the carrier concerned. It is important that we take the time to establish the facts of what has happened, and that is the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (9 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: At its forthcoming 79th session this autumn, the UN Sixth Committee (Legal Affairs) will further examine the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity. The Sixth Committee will consider once again the ILC’s 2019 recommendation to elaborate an international convention on the basis of the Draft Articles, and is due to...