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Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...were, where they would like to attend school, what they would like to do at another level and what sort of training they would like to receive. This year in the community healthcare organisation, CHO, 5 area, 116 children did not have to attend day services. They were given the opportunities with either the national learning network and education and training board, ETB, to actually...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tillage Sector (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...requested and secured support for the sector from the EU agriculture reserve in light of the significant challenges relating to the weather and harvest this year. A support package of €7.1 million has been allocated to the sector under this fund. A one-off flat-rate payment of €28 per hectare will be made on the area of oilseed rape, winter and spring barley, wheat and rye...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Seamus McCarthy: The 2022 Appropriation Account for Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage records gross expenditure of €5.632 billion. Appropriations-in-aid of the Vote amounted to €71.4 million. The surplus of the amount provided over the net amount applied in the year was €586.7 million. Of this, the Department received permission to carry over to 2023...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)

...but they were late for the list. They received a clear audit opinion, but, as members will remember, I drew attention to a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners of slightly less than €1 million in March 2022 in respect of underpayment of relevant contract tax and professional services withholding tax. The second item is the National Tourism Development Authority's, or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...manure nitrogen per hectare. However in return, our derogation farmers are subject to stricter environmental conditions, including a higher inspection rate. Last year saw the introduction of Ireland’s 5thNitrates Action Programme where the scope of some existing measures was broadened, other measures were expanded, and a number of new measures were introduced to drive improvements...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...deal with the difficult trading conditions that have arisen because of Brexit. It also aimed to help the sector transition to longer-term restructuring measures. The scheme had a budget of €3.5 million, with payments of between €2,700 and €4,000 available to eligible inshore fishers. As of 25 October 2023, a total of 737 applications have been received with a total...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...is an important and integral component of the Agri-Food industry which I have strongly supported in recent years. I doubled the annual budget for the Protein Aid Scheme from €3 to €7 million. The Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) has paid €19.5 million to tillage farmers since it was launched as a pilot in 2021. I announced €7 million in additional...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...to take place to ensure a sustainable and comprehensive peace. The Taoiseach met with Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan in the margins of the European Political Community meeting in Granada on 5 October and expressed his concern that Karabakh Armenians have felt forced to flee their homelanden masse, and outlined EU and Irish assistance. Some €10.45 million in EU funding has been...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Financial Resolutions (25 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution and, for that purpose, that the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 be further amended, by the insertion of Chapter 5 of Part 33, in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution. 5. THAT the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997) be amended in respect of the taxation...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...with the Government’s overall direction of travel in this area. Between 2018 and 2023, nearly 1,000 school building projects were completed. Through Project Ireland 2040, the Department is investing in excess of €5 billion over the period from 2021 to 2025 to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost 1 million students and more...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...... if significant civilian infrastructural damage is not addressed, no further escalation is required for the situation to worsen from dire to catastrophic...; ...just confirmation that between 5 October and 9 October air attacks and shelling were intensive. The impact of those attacks has now been documented. There were 11 power stations hit affecting more than 2 million people; 18...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: ...applying from 1 January at the level advised by ICES. In previous years, the Commission developed a plan for provisional TACs for the first three months of the year. That saw TACs for most stocks set at 25% of the previous year's total allowable catch level, with the full total allowable catch applied for coastal state stocks such as mackerel and blue whiting. While this situation is...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (25 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...services. The number, by county, of organisations currently supported is set out in the table below. A new call for applications under the CSP was launched on 6thMarch last with a budget of €1 million in 2023. 197 stage 1 Concept Notes were received, following which 33 successful stage 1 applicants were invited to submit a full application under stage 2. Of these 33 organisations,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

...The objectives of both authorities continue to align. I have now learned that the mandate of the Health and Safety Authority has broadened since my earlier days. Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the authority protects the safety and health of workers and people affected by work-related activities. That is somewhat as it always has been but there are new and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 57, 84 and 101 together. As part of budget 2024, I secured a €2.3 billion social protection package. This is, for the second year in a row, the largest in the history of the State. This package provides a mixture of exceptional cost-of-living payments delivered over the coming weeks, along with an across-the-board €12 weekly rate increase...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Butler: ...;31 per hour, up to a maximum of €34 per hour. The service level agreement made with the HSE and the private sector involves the delivery of 30-minute and 60-minute sessions. There is no concept of 45-minute sessions. Notwithstanding these improvements, there is currently a funded waiting list of approximately 2,800 people who are receiving home support but not the maximum hours...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Marian Harkin: ...Justice Ireland for the detailed analysis it provided last year, this year and in other years because it allows us to see the bigger picture, the ongoing impact, on children, individuals and families. On page 59 of its socioeconomic review for 2023, Social Justice Ireland points out that it has consistently argued for the prioritisation of low-income welfare-dependent families in...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerald Nash: ...was warned of the deadweight effect by Department of Finance officials time and again as the Minister knows. The deadweight effect, of course, involves State support for market activity that would happen in any case. I believe we have spent over €700 million on help to buy since 2016 or 2017. Mazars reviewed the scheme and suggested that if the Government was continuing with it,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...in the context of this year's budget. I also raise the submission made by the Northern and Western Regional Assembly, which has drafted a submission asking for three things - a stimulus package of €570 million for the region between now and 2027, a policy of positive discrimination for the region and more regional autonomy. The document clearly sets out the reasons for the three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...we know it works. My first question relates to that challenge. How do we prove and convince that it is a far better use of money, and that it would require far less money, than constant €25 million flood prevention schemes that channel the river and block communities from accessing something they have accessed for many years and impact on biodiversity? There are a number of...