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Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...view, and it is a view we have advanced for a number of years, that a social protection and income adequacy commission, comparable to the Low Pay Commission, is needed. Perhaps less so in the past year or two but over many years in the longer run, the politics of the budget has very often been dominated by questions about whether €5 or €10 will be added to weekly payments....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...jobseekers was provided for in the budget. It is difficult to get my head around exactly what is going to transpire because it is subject to final design. I am wondering what calculation the €5 million provided for December 2024 reflects. We have the straw man and the sense of the €450 cap and the six months and the Minister has given some commentary on it in recent days...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, but the €5 million is premised on those calculations.

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...is to move higher education out of the austerity mode it has been locked in for some time now. We saw a modest increase in core funding this year but that needs to be built upon significantly. This summer, the Government published a policy document that recognised a €307 million funding gap in our higher education system, despite students and families paying some of the highest...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding of €5 million to address the significant lists of children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus who are facing long wait times to access life-changing procedures; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7182/22]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...is not sufficient. This legislation does not go far enough. It is difficult to ask the public to continue to make the enormous sacrifices they have been making, including staying at home under level 5 restrictions and doing all that they can to ensure that Covid does not spread, when the Government is not doing all it can to stop Covid and its variants coming into the country. My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the €5 million investment for DEIS schools in Budget 2021 will be allocated. [32783/20]

EU Regulations: Referral to Joint Committee (9 Apr 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...several existing databases, this initiative will, in reality and practice, result in the creation of a new giant database that will contain the personal information of tens and perhaps hundreds of millions of people in the longer run, including information collected for very different purposes, both for migration control and crime prevention, both of which have, unfortunately, been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (25 Oct 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...even at a higher level. One of the striking parts of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report was how high the threshold in this State is to be considered a high wealth individual. At €50 million it is very high compared to €10 million in Spain or €5 million in South Africa. This threshold should be lower. Imagine what we would be looking at if there were...

Sale of Illicit Goods Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...an offence for a person to buy or attempt to buy alcohol in circumstances where he or she had known or should have known that taxes and excise duty had not been paid on that alcohol. Section 5 deals with illicit tobacco. Section 5(1) makes it an offence for a person to buy or attempt to buy tobacco in circumstances where he or she had known or should have known that taxes and excise...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will begin with some statistics. Between the various hospitals in Cork, there are 31,265 people on outpatient lists and 998 inpatients on waiting lists while 707,000 people are waiting lists nationally. Statistics can serve a good or bad purpose. On the one hand, they are evidence of a reality and outline the scale of a problem. In this instance, that is quite stark. A total of 707,000...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Expenditure (13 Oct 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...the status of the review of the school transport scheme; if his Department will consider increasing funding to the scheme in line with the recommendation by a charity (details supplied) of €5 million resulting in an abolition of fees for parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30029/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (15 Jun 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...Years Services) Regulations 2016 enter into effect. I refer specifically to regulation No. 9(4), under which all employees must have at a minimum a Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, level 5 award in early childhood care and education by December 2016. My understanding is that this applies specifically to staff counted for ratios. The only exceptions are where an employee has...

Adjournment Debate: Arts Centres (9 Jun 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...the concern of Deputies Ellis and Shortall, not only in respect of Young Ballymun but also with regard to the Preparing for Life programme and the childhood development initiative in Tallaght. 5 o’clock My Adjournment matter relates to the event centre proposed and planned for Cork. It is a crucial project for Cork city. The lack of such a facility during the years has led to...