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Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...alternatives. While I was sitting in the housing committee yesterday across from Darragh O'Brien, where he was justifying the ridiculous and disgraceful announcement that he will give hundreds of millions of euro to private developers to incentivise and encourage them to deliver more housing, I got a text from my office about a family where the bailiffs will be coming around on Tuesday....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (26 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: ...will chair this Expert GroupWork to update the anti-bullying procedures for schools is well underway with Continuous Professional Development and training being developed for all school staff, Board of Management members and parents€5 million is being invested to pilot a programme of counselling supports for primary school students. This will serve to support the very positive work...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The 25% sectoral emission ceiling set for the agriculture sector is a hugely challenging target and one that will see our sector change over the coming decade with scientific and technological solutions evolving all the time. In the Climate Action Plan 2023, Agriculture has focused on three themes: Inputs and additives, husbandry practices and diversification. These measures include...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disparity in the Cost of Fertiliser: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

...walk today. I can supply it afterwards if the Chair wants. Our understanding is that in the first quarter of 2023's fertiliser year, which is October, November and December of 2022, there was a 25% increase in fertiliser purchases but that quarter only represents 4% of annual sales. Not a huge volume of fertiliser was purchased compared with the annual amount for years gone by. We...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael McGrath: ...the national economic dialogue, which takes place on 12 June. The Government has set out a medium-term fiscal framework that permits core public expenditure, net of any discretionary tax changes, to grow by 5%per annum over the period 2021 to 2025. The SPU is prepared on a no policy change basis and therefore the 5% spending rule has been applied in the figures. In response to the war...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: ...Waiting lists were far too long before Covid arrived and were made worse by Covid in Ireland and around the world. In Ireland, waiting lists for scheduled care increased by almost 60% between 2015 and 2021. In late 2021, as the worst effects of Covid began to recede, we began to tackle the waiting lists in a meaningful way. We are now in the middle of a multi-annual approach to achieving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...of situations. It is fair to say that we probably deal with a higher number of people who are illiterate, and cannot read or write, than the tax consultant who deals with someone who turns over €5 million per year. This is the reality we face. We get people of all shapes, makes and sizes in our clinics. In the generality, they are not the well heeled or the well educated,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Sectoral Emissions Ceiling: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...I am not sure whether she is familiar with the Connecting Ireland programme, which is the Government's plan relating to regular daily journeys for populations numbering more than 300. It is a €56 million five-year programme and we are three years into it. The Government invested €5 million last year and spent €4 million. This year, it is investing €8 million...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (25 Apr 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...in exploring the option of the board providing land, whether by donation or nominal lease, to the community to allow a community energy project that has the potential to yield a benefit of up to €9 million per annum. This in turn could be administered by the local authority and allow it to be in a position to compensate for the loss of €4 million or €5 million in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is estimated that the attack on the cybersystem in this country will cost €100 million. We do not know what the human cost is. We know that hundreds of thousands of people did not get the treatment they needed following the cyberattack because of the collapse of the systems, so there could very well be people who have died and have suffered serious morbidity as a result. Ireland...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...block exemption regulation had not been agreed. The new regulation came into effect on 1 January 2023. Section 3 provides for: the extension of farm restructuring capital gains tax relief to 31 December 2025; the extension of young trained farmer stock relief to 31 December 2024; the extension of registered farm partnership stock relief to 31 December 2024; the extension and amendment...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Data (25 Apr 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...areas that have experienced significant levels of depopulation over a defined period. Since the CLÁR Programme was relaunched in 2016, it has supported a wide range of measures. Funding of over €57 million has been approved for almost 2,100 projects since its relaunch. I launched CLÁR 2023 on 29 March 2023 and the measures to be funded are:Developing Community Facilities...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Apr 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...in both formal and non-formal education from early learning and care to adult education under which the Irish Research Council is inviting applications. My Department is also developing a First 5 Garden of Wonder and Discovery at Bord Bia Bloom 2023, taking place in the Phoenix Park over the June Bank Holiday weekend, 1 to 5 June. The Garden will be an innovative way to reflect the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...scheme and the areas of natural constraint scheme. The use of satellite data to carry out checks is not new, as we know; it has been part of the Department's inspection programme now for over 15 years. Checks by monitoring were successfully introduced in 2021 for the protein aid scheme, whereby satellite data were used to verify protein crops for all applicants' declared parcels. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (20 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I will correct what I said. The 51 WTEs are not a national but a regional deployment. It is just within the hospital group. Ennis Hospital will see an additional 20 WTEs just for this programme. It is a very significant increase in investment. The hospital group has been approved for more than €5 million in funding to essentially extend the opening hours, as the Deputy quite...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...Insurance and what has happened since, nobody can tell the committee or the public how much was in reserves with Quinn Insurance at that time. Can anybody guess? Can anybody even estimate? Was it €100 million? Was it less than €100 million? Was it €500 million? Was it €5 million? Can the Comptroller and Auditor General shed any light on this?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Dental Treatment Services Scheme provides care to adult medical holders over 16 years. In April 2020 there were 1651 DTSS contractors registered on the Scheme. This declined to 1253 in April 2022. I approved measures from May 2022 providing for increased preventative care and increasing the fees paid to dentists for most treatment items by 40-60%. This has improved access, and both the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of oral healthcare services and patients of all ages are waiting longer than they should have to, to access care. I am responding to this by an unprecedented allocation of an additional €15 million in Budget 2023 to enhance the provision of oral healthcare services. This includes €5 million allocated on a one-off basis to support the HSE Public Dental Service to provide care...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) and the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme (BEEP) by improving the genetic merit of the Irish suckler herd. The scheme which has a budget of €256 million over the course of the CSP 2023 - 2027 opened for applications on 20 March 2023 and will close on 22 May 2023. There will however continue to be a facility for a farmer and/or their...