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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

...homelessness and I am pleased that our colleagues from the DRHE and Cork City Council are attending today. Eradicating homelessness is a priority for the Department. This year, funding of €242 million will be made available for the delivery of homeless services. This funding will ensure that local authorities can provide emergency accommodation, homelessness prevention and...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...economy to an annual value of approximately €1.6 billion. IBEC estimates that having the current patent system means it costs an individual or small business somewhere between €7,000 and €15,000 in terms of translation and other costs to register a patent at the moment. That is before they have to go and enforce it if someone tries to replicate their idea. Then they...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Mary Butler: I wish to comment on computerisation, especially regarding home supports. There is currently a split in that the 22 million home support hours last year were delivered between private, public and voluntary services. Approximately 55% of all the home support last year was delivered by private sector services, which all use IT to deliver their supports. Unfortunately, the HSE is lagging but...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Mr. Pat Smyth: It was less than €5 million at that stage four years ago. It emerged as a post-Covid issue for us.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 Feb 2024)

Mary Butler: ...Government. As additional CAMHS teams have been established, staffing has increased in parallel. More specifically, the HSE has increased staffing in community CAMHS from 388.76 WTEs in 2011 to 659 in December 2021 to approximately 820 posts by the end of 2023. This is an increase of more than 50% over the last 12 years. In addition, I announced a further 68 posts for youth mental health...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...disabilities to intellectual disabilities and autism. The home support service for children with disabilities assists the child with various activities and supports the parent/family. Over 3 million home support hours are delivered to almost 7,200 people annually. PA services provides one-to-one support to people with physical disabilities in their homes and communities by trained,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Public investment in Early Learning and Care and School Age Childcare rose from €345 million in 2016, to €1.108 billion in 2024. Investment as a percentage of modified GNI (based on the most recently available modified GNI figures, 2022) increased from 0.20% in 2016 to 0.26% in 2022. For illustrative purposes investment as a percentage of modified GNI (using 2022 figures) is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There has been a number of steps taken by my Department to increase childcare places: Some €69 million has been allocated over the period 2023-2025 to the early learning and childcare sector under the revised National Development Plan (NDP). This will enable significant capital investment across three pillars: Building Blocks - Improvement Grant; Building Blocks - Capacity Grant;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Feb 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ..., special classes and special school places are provided. In 2023, my department spent over €2.6 billion on special education and further progress will be made this year as an additional €113 million will be dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This includes funding to support children with special educational needs in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: ...achieved again in 2023 notwithstanding the wider construction sector environment of high inflation, labour shortages and supply chain issues. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...WFD as part of the second-cycle river basin management plan that covered the period 2018-2021. These new implementation bodies are supported by regional local authority structures, comprising of 5 regional committees, which drive the delivery of supporting measures at local level. These structures are further supported by the Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO), which acts as a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: State investment in early learning and childcare has increased by 221% in the past eight years - rising from €345 million in 2016 to €1.108 billion in 2024. This year's State investment for the early learning and childcare sector provides for: The continuation of the ECCE programme that will benefit more than 103,000 children in 2024. The continuation of the Access and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...;s Health Action Plan, significant investment has been made into women’s health since the formation of this government. This has enabled the action plan to be delivered effectively. Since 2020, under this Government, there has been an investment of over €140 million of additional funding allocated specifically towards women’s health initiatives. Prioritisation of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...pot of money or fund to help develop local authority-owned piers and harbours throughout the country. At present, there is a Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine fund of approximately €5 million per annum. This basically means those piers and harbours have to fight for scraps from the table in order to do any enhancement works. There was an allocation of approximately...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Heydon: ...chargeable excess tax, CET, and is charged at a rate of 40%. The CET is paid on top of the normal income taxes paid at the marginal rate upon drawdown of the pension funds. The SFT was set at €5 million when it was introduced in 2004 but was subsequently reduced by €2.3 million in 2010. It was reduced further to €2 million in 2014 and remains at that level today....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (28 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...ameliorate traffic flows through the town of Mallow, much of which is HGV traffic, then we will need to progress this project. If we consider that one person in RTÉ can get an exit package of €450,000, if that figure was doubled, it would be small money in terms of the €5 billion the Minister of State spoke about or the €400 million that has been allocated for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

.... I think back on probably one of the most innovative campaigns we ever did for the Brexit referendum, which was on voter registration. We did our #PhoneAFriend campaign, whereby we encouraged the 5 million British people who can claim an Irish-born grandparent to register and to vote. We also informed the British people living in Ireland that they had the right to vote as well as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

...a hearing loss. Of the 10,000 children, the vast majority do not but they may have been referred because they have temporary hearing loss or they have concentration issues in school, etc. Around 5% of those children do have a persistent and problematic hearing loss. The Deputy is right; they are going about their business as best they can day to day but they are missing out on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...the emphasis on Green Public Procurement (GPP). Key messages in the Public Sector Leading by Example chapter included “that the public sector will fully implement GPP”. Key performance indicators for 2025 included developing and implementing a new Green Public Procurement Strategy and action plan, based on a review of Green Tenders. A section (10.3.7) specifically on GPP...