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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (24 Jan 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...the theme of accommodating national identities. The shared island research programme is also continuing, with 30 publications so far examining the island in economic, cultural, social and political terms. The next ESRI shared island report examines housing supply factors and will be launched on 31 January. Finally, I want to recognise the serious challenges for the people of Northern...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...thank it for its work, and a good report came from this committee. One of its recommendations related specifically to the issue of A levels and the equivalence with the leaving certificate. As a result of that, we worked with the ESRI, which did a helpful piece of work I was pleased to launch. I also thank Universities Ireland, the representative body for all universities on the island,...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to exist for the past ten years is affecting every element of society and of the delivery of Government services. The Government’s targets are half what they need to be. According to the ESRI, we need to be building 60,000 homes annually. Regarding the social housing targets, the first nine months of last year saw 2,642 new social homes built. The target was 9,100 for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...homes being increasingly owned by real estate investment trusts and operated by separate companies which are increasingly financed, at least in part, by means of private equity, according to the ESRI. The Minister of State did not meet with the representative body for the healthcare assistants, Migrant Nurses Ireland, despite its request for a meeting. He has now agreed to such a meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...be funded in the future will be an essential factor of the new Statutory Scheme. With this in mind the Department is researching different funding models. The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) also undertook a programme of work on behalf of the Department on the potential demand and cost of home support which culminated in two reports:...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (22 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...is so important is that the many apartment dwellers who want to retrofit need to do so. This is about reducing bills, keeping more heat in and, crucially, reducing energy poverty. We know from ESRI research that has been published over recent years that those who live in apartments and flats tend to be, on average, on a lower income, their accommodation tends more to be rented than...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...to Northern Ireland. The difference is that students from Northern Ireland who wish to attend university there have to pay up to £10,000 or £11,000 to do so. My big concern is that a recent ESRI study showed Ireland will need at least another 2,600 doctors in hospitals by 2025. Many of the doctors training in the Republic of Ireland are going abroad. This issue is on our...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Bodies (18 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...important, therefore, that this commission will look at all of these options. The commission will be independently chaired. In December this year, Professor Alan Barrett, chief executive of the ESRI, was appointed as chairperson of the commission. I met with Professor Barrett before Christmas. I will respond further after the Deputy's next question

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

...coming out of the pandemic. From a social welfare perspective, the Government’s response entailed a combination of base rate increases and one-off measures, the combined impact of which has been shown by the ESRI to substantially cushion people on low incomes from the effects of inflation. In the period since 2022, the Department has made 18 separate one-off payments with a total...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Róisín Shortall: I am raising the issue of the recent ESRI report that made fairly damning findings about what is happening in the area of residential care for older people. We have seen the rapid closure of small, community-based nursing homes and a trend towards much bigger and much more commercial nursing homes, which is certainly not in the interests of older people. What is the Minister of State's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: 21. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to respond to ESRI reports which have identified significant deficits and imbalances in critical healthcare infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2059/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: As Minister for Mental Health and Older People, I welcome the recent ESRI report: Long-term Residential Care in Ireland: Developments since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The report brings into focus some the challenges facing the long-term residential care sector in Ireland which the Government continues to address to provide short-term stability and long-term growth to this sector. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Marian Harkin: 64. To ask the Minister for Health in response to the recent ESRI report on the provision of long-term residential care, what plans are being put in place to secure sufficient long-term care capacity in the north west region, in particular, and in other more rural counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2085/24]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...housing market and significant damage is being done to families as a result. The Government's target for building houses is only half what it should be. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, stated that we need to be building 60,000 houses a year. The social housing targets in the last while have been incredibly low. For the first nine months of last year, 2,642 new...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...marvellous work on the commercialisation and privatisation of care. She and other writers have highlighted the difficulties and consequences of that. We have seen it lately in relation to nursing homes and the report by the ESRI that now tells us more than 80% of long-term residential care is provided by the private sector. We needed the ESRI to tell us what we have been saying here for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...up. Much work has gone into upskilling and retraining young people into the construction sector and it is working. I stated clearly that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is expecting the ESRI research. The Department is expecting that report next month and updated targets will be brought to Government at that stage. No doubt they will be ambitious, because we have exceeded....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...projects, over €20 million, goes into Dublin, which is 29% of the country. The second generation moderated that to 56%. I go back to Edgar Morgenroth's work 20 years ago, when he was in the ESRI, and the work in framing the national spatial strategy, which is that double the growth needs to happen in the regions. Clearly, we are some way through the Project Ireland 2040 programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...as well as the income support side of things and the actual unit rate cost. The other important point to note, which we have seen from our own direct experience and which was also shown by ESRI research, is that when social housing tenants upgraded their homes the cost savings were not as much as they would have anticipated because of underheating. It was more a case of people bringing...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: North-South Ministerial Council (17 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...of an ambitious agenda for cooperation and connection on the island, the Government’s Shared Island Initiative is delivering an ongoing comprehensive research programme, working with the ESRI, the National Economic and Social Council, the Irish Research Council and other partners. Research will continue to be published through 2024, focused on opportunities to deepen cooperation...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Research and Development (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McGrath: While my Department has not commissioned research under the initiatives listed, the Deputy may be interested to note that under the Department of Finance/ESRI Joint Research Programme, the ESRI is carrying out a study on cross-border employments and it is anticipated that this work will be completed in 2024. To support development of a more ambitious agenda for cooperation and connection...