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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (12 Dec 2023)

Simon Harris: ...2023 and the inaugural meeting of the reformed NSC is expected to take place in Q1 2024. National Digital Strategy: The Department continues to engage on the Skills dimension of the National Digital Strategy. The Department is working in partnership with the ESRI on a research programme on Irish Skills Requirements. The first project under the programme examines in-demand skills needs for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Dec 2023)

Simon Harris: ...2023 and the inaugural meeting of the reformed NSC is expected to take place in Q1 2024. National Digital Strategy: The Department continues to engage on the Skills dimension of the National Digital Strategy. The Department is working in partnership with the ESRI on a research programme on Irish Skills Requirements. The first project under the programme examines in-demand skills needs for...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...an update on the national planning framework. We are meeting with the planning advisory forum, which I chair. We have a body of work commissioned with the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, looking at population trends based on the census. The ESRI will provide us with an update on that early in the new year. This will feed into looking at population trends in Ireland. An...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Joe O'Brien: ...of €500 - equivalent to approximately a further €10 per week. The measures taken by the Government therefore meet, and in fact exceed, any increase calculated under the smoothed earnings benchmark. In addition, ESRI post-budget analysis shows that the approach taken by the Government is progressive in nature and that households, including pensioner households, are better...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...process including in recent years the impact of once-off measures. I commit that we will publish a detailed social impact assessment of budget 2024 including the main tax and welfare measures using the ESRI's SWITCH microsimulation model by quarter 1 of next year. The Department also has a three-year joint research programme on poverty and social inclusion with the ESRI. As part of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...to 2030, with an updated Affordable Housing Strategy to be prepared in the second half of next year. Under the Housing for All Action Plan Update, provisional annual Housing for All housing output targets based on ESRI modelling will be published in Q1 2024. Final housing tenure targets will also be published in Q3 2024, following an update of the Housing Need and Demand Assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the significant increase in average rent in County Donegal, according to the ESRI and the Residential Tenancies Board new renters in County Donegal are paying almost 30% more each month than existing tenants; if the Government have any plans to deal with this significant increase; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...over €10 per week in value from these two payments alone. Pensioners living alone, and in receipt of Fuel Allowance will have received bonus payments of €500 – equivalent to a value of about a further €10 per week. ESRI post budget analysis shows that the approach taken by the Government is progressive in nature and that households, including pensioner...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance.Extension of the Hot School Meals programme to all DEIS primary schools and special schools from October 2023, benefiting 64,500 children.Independent post Budget 2024 analysis from the ESRI further found that the package of measures introduced under the Budget ensures that there are gains in disposable income for all household types, with lone...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...Child is in paymentThis week will see two further lump sum payments being made:A double payment of Child BenefitA 100% Christmas BonusAnd in January, a 100% double payment, at higher weekly rates, will be made to recipients of long term social protection payments. The ESRI analysis shows that Budget 2024 rate increases, combined with the cost of living measures, are effective in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Priorities (7 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...of reviewing priorities and the capacity to deliver the NDP, an independent evaluation of investment priorities and capacity of was commissioned by my Department earlier this year. This work has been conducted by the ESRI, and my Department has recently received the final draft. The evaluation focuses on the capacity to deliver current Government priorities, to utilise sectoral capital...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in-built flexibility to review actions and targets, as needed. The plan currently sets out annual targets of overall housing delivery to 2030. A review and refresh of housing targets has commenced. The work will be underpinned by independent, peer-reviewed research by the ESRI. It will inform national and local housing targets, as well as subsets of social, affordable and private housing,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Smith: ...commentary about research and planning for this country in whatever governance parameters is decided in the future. Very valuable work has been undertaken with the shared island unit and the ESRI, by NESC, and with some of our universities and institutes of technology as well. It is very important that planning for the future is done on the basis of qualitative and quantitative research....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (6 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Programme for Government commits to ‘Introduce a statutory scheme to support people to live in their own homes, which will provide equitable access to high-quality, regulated home care’. Work is ongoing within the Department across four broad areas to progress this commitment: (i) Regulation of home-support providers; (ii) the examination of future funding options for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...part of that update of what was called the capacity report in 2018, which PA Knowledge Limited undertook on behalf of the Department and ourselves. We have stood up a process now, working with the ESRI, to look at what that will look like with future population projections. As the Chairman will know, we have grown significantly, even in the past year, by 1%, by way of immigration and so...

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Development Agency; and agrees that continued implementation of Housing for All – A New Housing Plan for Ireland represents the most appropriate response to deal with the housing challenges which Ireland is now facing.". It is quite clear that this motion tonight is prompted by the recently published RTB-ESRI rent index for quarter 2 of 2023. I welcome the debate this evening....

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael McGrath: ...would likely present a number of considerable challenges in relation to the systems underpinning both income tax and USC. In 2016, research undertaken jointly by the Department of Finance and the ESRI found that USC represented a more stable form of revenue than income tax. The findings highlighted that USC revenues would fluctuate by less than income tax revenues whenever income is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (5 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...to deliver the NDP, an independent evaluation of investment priorities and capacity of the National Development Plan (NDP) was commissioned by my Department earlier this year. This work has been conducted by the ESRI, and my Department has recently received the final draft. The evaluation focuses on the capacity to deliver current Government priorities, to utilise sectoral capital...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (5 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this answer

Roderic O'Gorman: ...annual costs of increasing the NCS universal subsidy by 25% from January 2024. A 25% increase in the NCS Universal subsidy results in a new NCS universal subsidy of €1.75 per hour. The ESRI SWITCH model was used to estimate the quantum of the change, this was then applied to the Departments baseline cost of the NCS for 2024. Using this method, it was estimated that the cost...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (5 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...completed, in tabular form. Project Organisation Year Started Scheduled Completion Attitudes to Immigration, refugees and asylum seekers ESRI 2023 Q4 2023 Review of National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy Mazars 2023 Q1 2024 Migrant Integration Consultation and...