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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: ...and young people achieve their full potential. As such, the Early Start programme was established in 1994 as a one-year intervention programme to meet the needs of children aged between 3 years and 5 years who are at risk of educational disadvantage and of not reaching their full potential within the school system. It involves an educational programme to enhance overall development, help...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year, over 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (29 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...ensembles and professional musicians. More broadly, the Arts Council has primary responsibility for stimulating public interest, promoting the practice and improving standards in the arts in Ireland. In 2025, funding for the Arts Council has reached a record level of €140 million. Unfortunately in regard to the specific matter raised by the Deputy, I have no such powers to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: ...other factors with potential to influence fertility, mortality and migration trends. The ESRI projections were published in July 2024 and estimated that the population of Ireland will increase by around one million people or by 20% over 2022 levels, to around 5.7m by 2030 and approximately 6.1 million people by 2040, with higher figures of 5.9m and 6.3m people respectively in a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: ...and local authority level. The draft First Revision of the NPF, approved by Government this month, indicates that in the period between 2022 and 2040 it is expected that there will be roughly an extra one million people living in Ireland over Census 2022 levels. Having regard to the ESRI projections and the Department’s own projections, this will give rise to a need to plan for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: ...applies to the five cities and their metropolitan areas, larger towns with a population of more than 10,000 people and to a number of smaller towns with fewer than 10,000 people but with more than 2,500 jobs and which function as significant centres of employment. Within County Galway, Galway City and Metropolitan Area, Ballinasloe, Tuam, and Oranmore were eligible for support under the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...and Insolvency services and A1 certificates (for workers posted abroad). Spousal Dental claims all involve a manual application form, and providers will always have a stock of these. In 2024, MyWelfare facilitated over 3 million transactions and in December the platform exceeded 15 million customer transactions since its launch in 2015. There have been over 29 million transactions on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: As part of Budget 2025 my Department secured an allocation of €5 million for 2025 to support the group of farmers commonly referred to as forgotten farmers. Work is ongoing to address a number of remaining issues, before the details of the eligibility requirements and benefits to successful applicants under any scheme can be finalised.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Norma Foley: ...learning and care and school-age childcare services had an annual staff turnover rate of 80% or more, this represents 7% of all services. The national average staff turnover rate for 2022/23 was 24.5% down 0.2% on the 2021/22 turnover rate of 24.7%. The data shows that 29% of the 24.5% turnover rate is due to staff moving from one service provider to another. Levels of staff turnover...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Norma Foley: Investment in early learning and childcare is now at unprecedented levels with public funding exceeding €1.37 billion in 2025, clearly demonstrating Government commitment to this area. This Department operates a range of Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Childcare (SAC) funding schemes. These funding schemes, which include the ECCE Programme, National Childcare Scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Norma Foley: ...a role in its statutory negotiation processes. However, outcomes from the Joint Labour Committee process are supported by the Government through Core Funding that will increase by 6% to €350 million in the programme year 2025/26. Core Funding supports the ability of providers to meet the additional costs resulting from the Employment Regulation Orders for Early Years Services,...

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025) See 2 other results from this debate

Barry Heneghan: ...standards. It is really doing its best. However, since being elected to this House, I am not happy with the fact that, as Deputy O'Flynn noted earlier, no one is accountable. In a question on 5 February 2025, I asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications about the investment that is planned to modernise the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant to prevent...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the management of Shannon Airport called for the re-examination of aviation policy and requested the passenger cap in the regional airport programme be increased. Last year, for instance, over 2 million passengers used Shannon Airport, placing it outside the programme. As the Minister knows, Shannon has the capacity to easily take up to 5 million passengers without much work there. We...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (10 Apr 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...2019 to not only cover new CCTV systems, but also to provide funding for the extension or upgrading of existing CCTV systems that were incomplete or obsolete. Applicants may also seek a one-off grant of up to €5,000 for minor maintenance costs. Grants of over €950,000 for 36 community CCTV schemes have been approved to date. I want Senator Kennelly and other Senators to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (10 Apr 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the integration of Local Link with other public transport services. And I am pleased to say that this Government has invested significantly in these services over its lifetime. Under Budget 2025, the Department of Transport secured €658.442 million of funding for Public Service Obligation (PSO) and TFI Local Link services (an increase from €613.813 million in 2024). This...

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025) See 2 other results from this debate

Peter Burke: ...and investment relationship is the biggest in the world. More than €4.2 billion of goods and services are traded between the EU and the US daily. This deeply integrated relationship supports millions of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic and it is crucial to strengthen this partnership, not disrupt it with tariffs that risk diverting trade, increasing inflation and causing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: ...the span of impacts are very wide. Regarding a phased response, this can be at GP, gynaecology or indeed specialist centre level. There has been progress for endometriosis. Approximately €5 million in additional funding has been spent and €2.1 million has been allocated for this year. If it is allowable, I ask Deputy McDonald to forward the correspondence to us because...

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Kevin Moran: ..., flood risk management focused on arterial drainage to improve land for agriculture and mitigate flooding. Arising from an increasing flood risk to urban areas, the Arterial Drainage Act 1945 was amended in 1995 to permit the OPW to implement flood relief schemes to provide flood protection for cities, towns and villages. To identify communities that are at risk from significant flood...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (9 Apr 2025)

Neale Richmond: ...ODA were as follows: No Recipient Country €000’s 1 Ethiopia 39,469 2 Occupied Palestinian Territory* 35,795 3 Ukraine 28,224 4 Mozambique 25,851 5 Tanzania 24,913 6 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2025)

Peter Burke: ...and investment relationship is the biggest in the world. More than €4.2 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the EU and US daily. This deeply integrated relationship supports millions of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic, and it is crucial to strengthen, not disrupt, this partnership with tariffs that risk driving inflation and causing economic harm. Increased...