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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

...A key determinant in sustaining a business into the future is its viability. Economic viability is defined within the Teagasc farm survey as those that get remunerated to the minimum wage plus a 5% return on non-land-based assets employed on the farm but the latest results from the Teagasc farm survey show that only 27% of cattle farms or mixed farms are economically viable. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: In June 2023 - the Deputy is correct - I was very pleased to launch a €5 million pilot of counselling and well-being supports in primary schools in selected counties. This further supports the range of mental health and well-being supports already provided by my Department and the excellent work already happening in schools in respect of well-being. All of this supplements the mental...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Cathal Berry: ...expended, we have a plan and we just need to focus on implementation. There have been some positive elements. For instance, the smoking cessation strategy has been excellent. We have gone from 18% to 5% of children smoking now. Obviously, 5% is still too much, but there has been progress. I was in Naas General Hospital on Friday when the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, showed up to open...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...case, there would be a saving to the State but it would be minimal and would come at the expense of some of Ireland's poorest. We already know that the cost of tax relief for private pensions runs not into the hundreds of millions but into the billions of euro. That is the case every single year. Auto-enrolment will increase that by hundreds of millions of euro each year. We also know...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...think the Minister has made it, that the Bill does not explicitly criminalise silent prayer. However, given the breadth of section 2(2), considered in conjunction with section 1, subsections (2), (5), (6), and (7), it seems possible that silent prayer is criminalised if one can tell by looking at the person that he or she is praying, for example. The normal postures associated with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

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 includes funding to support children with special educational needs in mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...supports, special classes and special school places are provided. In 2023, €2.6 billion was spent 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 mainstream classes;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Homeless Persons Supports (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...action plan on bullying includes an action on developing guidance for the establishment of a Student Support Team model in larger primary schools. This work has commenced and the pilot project is underway with 5 schools. The Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my Department to address concentrated educational disadvantage at...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Enlargement (16 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...the most recent meeting of the EU-Armenia Partnership Council on 13 February 2024 that the EU would be launching an ambitious, new “EU-Armenia Partnership Agenda”. The trilateral meeting on 5 April in Brussels between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was a demonstration of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. In 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 includes funding to support children with special educational needs in mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...of preparing children for school each September can be a cause of financial difficulty and worry for many Irish families. As part of Budget 2024, I announced a major investment of over €68 million to provide free schoolbooks to all students in Junior Cycle years in post-primary schools in the Free Education Scheme. This was a landmark moment in Irish education and one that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

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: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

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 in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Details of the 2024 Summer Programme were published on 21 March 2024. The Department of Education also recently announced that funding of €40 million has been secured again to ensure that a comprehensive summer programme will be available in 2024. This builds on the successful summer programmes of the last three years. The full funding of €40 million is available and, as in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. In 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 in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (16 Apr 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (16 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...for the sector and increasing wages for over 70% of staff working in services. I understand that the JLC continues to meet and plan to submit to the Labour Court new draft EROs proposing a 5% increase in minimum rates for all grades and the removal of 3 years experience requirement for graduate minimum pay rates. Outcomes from the JLC process are support by the Government through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Mr. Michael Gubbins: I have the statistics here. For the last five years under the proceeds of crime element, we have taken in €8.8 million. Under Revenue collected, we have taken €17.3 million and under the Department of Social Protection recoveries, we have taken in over €2 million in that period. The figures for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 were €2.2...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., acquisition and leasing, including 8,110 new-build social homes last year. By any fair assessment, that was a very good performance. That is the highest level of new-build social homes in about 50 years. If HAP and RAS are included, 21,733 social housing supports were provided last year. Record State investment of €5 billion has been made available this year to support the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

John Cummins: ...need a debate on aviation policy. There are a whole host of issues, not least in Dublin Airport but also in Waterford where the airport has submitted a business case to the Department seeking €7 million in addition to the €5 million allocated by the previous Government to widen and lengthen the runway. This is a critical piece of infrastructure for the south-east region....