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

Stephen Donnelly: ...the Deputy rightly identified, we have made significant money available over the past number of years for private care because we need to get these children seen. We invest a little over €200 million every year in public oral healthcare services. An additional €17 million in one-off funding has been invested in recent years. In the longer term, the national oral health...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...the timelines for delivery. The NDP contains expenditure commitments for a range of strategic investment priorities which will contribute towards the achievement of these NSOs, including NSO 5 which relates to a Strong Economy supported by Enterprise, Innovation and Skills. NSO 5 aims to maintain and enhance Ireland's status as a competitive, innovative and resilient enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: .... It also allows us to take stock of the economic environment and reflect on our ongoing investment path in public services and infrastructure in advance of setting our budgetary framework for 2025 in the Summer Economic Statement. Our expenditure policy remains rooted in the Medium Term Expenditure Strategy agreed by Government in the Summer Economic Statement of 2021, with an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

.... Expenditure on development aid would be higher and is more generous than the Tory Government in Britain to the rest of the world. The EU budgetary contribution would be quite significant, at €500 million. Of course, there is no such budgetary contribution currently. Using 2019 data, the result of these adjustments is that the transfer to the North would be approximately...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...on America. We have to continue exerting our own means of pressure at every level. I completely support the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign is holding a rally for Gaza at 2 p.m. on Sunday, 5 May on the Market Square in Dundalk. Similar events are happening across the country. I agree we need to continue with the work done on divestment. The Government did some initial work on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 22, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on housing met on Monday, 15 April. The next meeting will take place this month, in May. The committee works to ensure a co-ordinated approach to the implementation of Housing for All and for programme for Government commitments regarding housing and related matters, including planning reform. Our...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Garret Ahearn: ...phases. The phase relating to the part of the road between Cahir and Waterford is the one that has been shelved by the Minister. He has decided not to fund it anymore. We are looking for €2.5 million. Over the past seven years, this Government and that which preceded it spent over €5 million to get to this point. If this project is stopped, it would mean that all this...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, and premature death. The mortality impact of being socially disconnected is similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, and even greater than that associated with obesity and physical inactivity. And the harmful consequences of a society that lacks social connection can be felt in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

..., specific further education programmes are provided for persons with a disability who wish to avail of more intensive support through specialist training providers, STPs. A budget of €43 million is provided to education and training boards to provide specialist training across the country. More than 3,000 learners can avail of this intensive support. In 2023, over €36...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Funding (1 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...Ireland’s global presence and influence. To date, under the Strategy, 19 new Missions have opened, while additional Missions in Islamabad, Milan and Munich are scheduled to open this year. On 5 March 2024, the Government announced that additional new Embassies will be opened in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and Serbia, and that new Consulates General will be opened in Málaga...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...are funded from Councils' own resources, which are supplemented by State grants for regional and local roads. As outlined in the 2024 Regional and Local Roads programme which I released on the 15th of February this year, the Government is strongly committed to protecting the existing regional and local road network. This network is fundamental in connecting people and places across the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...basis to reflect project progress through the various stages of capital appraisal, site acquisition, design, tender and construction. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing over €5 billion during the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost one million students and over 100,000 staff that learn and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Hildegarde Naughton: ...with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. For 2024, €2.7 billion is being spent on special education, an increase of €113 million, and this is dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This will allow for, amongst other things, the opening of up to 400 new special classes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...on a regular basis to reflect project progress through the various stages of capital appraisal, site acquisition, design, tender and construction. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing over €5 billion during the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost one million students and over 100,000 staff that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Christopher O'Sullivan: I acknowledge the increased expenditure of €19 million, the 200 additional healthcare professionals and the reductions in waiting lists of 5% and 13%, but there is a statistic that is concerning, namely that although there were 509 procedures in 2022, there were fewer in 2023. Therefore, something has gone awry. I appreciate that the Minister is not here and that the Minister of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In budget 2024, I secured €4.5 million to commence the initial roll-out of equal start from September of this year. That allocation is equivalent to €13.5 million in a full year, and I will be very pleased to be able to fully announce equal start in May of this year. Equal start is a funding model and set of universal and targeted measures to support access to, and...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...MGO respectively earlier this month under the Sinn Féin proposals, instead of a two-step restoration proposed by the Government; and — the cost in 2024 of the measures proposed in a previously published Sinn Féin motion is approximately €165 million, which has not been provided for in the party's budgetary proposals; recalls that: — in addition to its fuel...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...in introducing the Bill of the enormous trauma that has been endured by all survivors of abuse, and I know that nothing we do now can ever truly undo the hurt which has been caused. Nearly 25 years ago, on 11 May 1999, the then Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, apologised on behalf of the State to the victims of childhood abuse. This apology arose from the important recognition of the extent and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Simon Harris: ...protect cities other than Kyiv. I, therefore, welcome the recent decision in the United States to confirm further aid for Ukraine. The agreement by the European Union in February to provide €50 billion in grants and loans to Ukraine in the period to 2027, and the decision in March to provide an additional €5 billion under the European Peace Facility, EPF, are both...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department supports the delivery of youth services nationwide, with €77.95 million funding for youth service provision this year, an increase of €5 million, or 6.8%, on the 2023 budget. From 2020 to Budget 2024, current Exchequer funding for youth services and programmes increased from €61.789 million to €77.95 million, a 26% increase overall. Young people...