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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Maurice Quinlivan: ...within the Leinster House complex. Today we will have a discussion on the small companies administrative rescue process, SCARP. The Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Act 2021, which was commenced on 8 December 2021, provides for a new, dedicated rescue process for small and micro companies known as SCARP. The committee is pleased to have the opportunity to...

Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Ireland document, we set out an ambitious and pragmatic plan that would have seen the proportion of renewables provide 80% of electricity demand by 2030. This target was only accepted by Government in 2021. Delayed ambition, a chronic lack of implementation and inadequate planning and resourcing have already put meeting this target in jeopardy. Sinn Féin would prioritise...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Dara Calleary: ...The Government is committed to providing necessary supports to relevant sectors, where appropriate. The street furniture licence fee regulations will be a repeat of the measures introduced in 2021, 2022 and 2023, which will continue to assist the hospitality and tourism sectors in 2024 by reducing the cost for maintaining outdoor dining facilities in public spaces. The power for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It seems to me that the NCSE is the body that has significant questions to answer about how it conducts its business, if it took three years to conclude what the Department had concluded in 2021. There is progress. The Minister is going to meet and hopefully matters will move on for the children, who are the most important people, and they will be looked after.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (2 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Dessie Ellis: ...In 2020, the Department of Education agreed to a new build. When some concerns were raised about the initial design, it was revised and subsequently fire safety consultants and landscape artists were appointed. In June 2021, the plans for the new build were approved, thereby completing the design stage. In August 2021 the planning application was submitted and planning permission was...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: .... Her submission outlines sexual assault taking place on a peacekeeping mission. One chapter was never included, largely due to her concerns over potentially exposing women in the Defence Forces to backlash. This is from 2021. I have jumped forward and back in relation to this to give a taste of what went on. In 1996, the independent monitoring group was set up. It produced three...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: In March, the High Court struck down returns to the UK. The judgment states that in October 2021: the UK authorities advised that the Applicant had been convicted on an offence [...] in the UK and was in consequence registered as a sex offender. It appears that this information had been redacted by reason of data protection concerns before being placed on [his] immigration file. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under national strategic outcome 10 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19791/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...of €245,892 for Youghal, for both coastal and flooding issues at Pilmore and Gortroe, including for repair of sluice gates and deepening of drains, of which four projects are now complete. In 2021, under the minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme, the OPW approved €34,392 to Cork County Council for the repair and replacement of a tidal sluice gate and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The judge in this case, Ms Justice Siobhán Phelan, stated that the information in regard to the applicant's conviction has been in the Minister for Justice agent's possession since October 2021, without telling the applicant of his obligation to register as a sex offender. The judge went on to say that she was troubled by the fact that this has not come to light. She said this was in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...for patients with a predisposition to cancer, we have direct ordering of BRCA testing, which was introduced in 2017 for ovarian cancer patients. It was expanded to breast cancer patients in 2021 and to prostate cancer patients in 2023. Last year, some 700 patients were tested, so there has been a very encouraging expansion of the service. I do not have the figures, but we are looking...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...a sufficient level of public dentistry to provide what is required. I am glad that some people are getting necessary dental care through the private sector. The numbers have obviously jumped. In 2021, in the Louth-Meath area, 77 patients were accepted at a cost of €200,995. By 2023, that figure had risen to 256 patients at a cost of €889,530. These are category four...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (2 May 2024)

Dara Calleary: ...funding scheme was put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the employment wage subsidy scheme, St. John's Ambulance Ireland received a funding relief of €240,773 in 2020, and €286,800 in 2021. A key recommendation of Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's independent review report on the handling of past complaints of abuse in St. John's Ambulance Ireland, which was published on 16...

Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Marie Sherlock: ...in the debate about collective redundancies that it has taken a long time to get to this Bill. We had the report following the Clerys liquidation and that of the Company Law Review Group, CLRG, in 2021, but the minority report of the CLRG in 2021 specifically called for an amendment that would provide that a court would not give a hearing to the winding-up petition unless it had full...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

...to undertake a wide range of statutory responsibility mainly related to public transport planning and funding. The authority's income in 2022 amounted to €1.74 billion, up from €1.54 billion in 2021. The majority of the income comes from Exchequer grant funding. Other income included €252 million in fare receipts. The authority's expenditure in 2022 amounted to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...to the committee’s request for an explanation for the later presentation of the 2022 financial statements of the Private Security Authority, contrary to the requirements under circular 24 of 2021. The financial statements were certified on 12 June 2023 by the Comptroller and Auditor General but were not laid by the Department until 15 November 2023, five months later. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: ...and acknowledge his ongoing work in this area, both in terms of the MCAP initially and the evolution of the programme. As he will be aware, we launched the medical cannabis access programme in 2021 for three conditions initially: refractory epilepsy, spasticity as a result of MS and nausea from chemotherapy. Since the inception of the programme, 55 separate patients have availed of it -...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Darren O'Rourke: ...funding; if he is aware of the issues raised in a documentary (details supplied) that aired on 25 April 2024; how many children are on a waiting list for treatment for an eating disorder in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 in tabular form; how he plans to address these issues; how he plans to increase treatment services for children and adults with eating disorders; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...lists and times. This approach is having a positive impact, with each of the WLAPs to-date having achieved a reduction in the overall waiting list numbers (5.4% reduction from September to December 2021, and 4.1% and 2.7% annual reductions for WLAP 2022 and 2023 respectively). The 2024 Plan builds on the work of previous plans which have achieved significant progress in overall waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I have visited the following hospitals since 17/09/21; (Please note that diary entries prior to this date are unavailable due to the cyber attack in Summer 2021) Tallaght Hospital 17/09/2021 Our Lady of Lourdes, Louth24/09/2021 Royal Victoria Eye & Ear 10/11/2021 Tallaght Hospital 15/11/2021 Rotunda Hospital 13/12/2021 Tallaght Hospital 11/02/2022 Cappagh Hospital...