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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...actions in the Plan, which are governed by the Waiting List Task Force, focus on delivering capacity, reforming scheduled care and enabling scheduled care reform. For 2023, funding totalling €443 million is being allocated to tackle Waiting Lists with €363 million of this being allocated to the 2023 Waiting List Action Plan, to implement longer term reforms and provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Addiction Services (18 Apr 2023)

Simon Harris: My Department has allocated €5 million to the Higher Education Authority for mental health and well-being services this year in Higher Education Institutes. As autonomous bodies, the internal disbursement of mental health and well-being funding, including the funding of student services, such as support for people dealing with gambling addiction, is a matter for each Institute so...

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...by processors. This is something we must focus on. It is difficult for people to understand that there is no payment at all for 2 kg of the dead weight of a sheep. For example, for a hogget weighing 25 kg, the factories pay for 23 kg and nothing more. The extra carcass weight does not get dumped so the processors have a serious advantage. The restrictions for lamb are even tighter....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: ..., which Members in the House will not want to accept, is the extraordinary increase in population in the past decade or so. That has been a significant factor. Notwithstanding that we built 35,000 houses last year, a 45% increase on the previous year, on which Covid had an impact, the reality is we now have more than 5 million people. Some 40,000 additional people came in via work...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (30 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to our country. The Government greatly appreciates the work of Family Resource Centres funded by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. Tusla Core funding to the Athlone FRC in 2019 was €105,073 and has risen to €114,739 for 2023. Caraphort FRC over the same years has gone from €94,910 to €103,641. These were challenging years and FRCs continued to perform...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (30 Mar 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and success for Irish Travellers in Higher Education. The most recent National Access Plan sets out the situation starkly. 1% of Travellers have a third level qualification, compared to 55% of the population. Collectively, we need to do much better. Gathering accurate data on Irish Traveller participation in higher education is difficult and is highly dependent on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (30 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...provide growth capacity in smaller settlements that would otherwise not be provided for in Uisce Éireann’s capital investment plan. I understand from Uisce Éireann that an allocation of almost €100 million for this programme was approved by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. Uisce Éireann is working with local authorities across the country in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...order to improve educational outcomes for children. HSCL supports are available to non DEIS schools, such examples include: a pilot project which supports Traveller and Roma pupils in approximately 50 schools, This comprises of 1 HSCL, 2 community education workers and 1. Educational welfare officer. My Department has also allocated 10 HSCL Coordinator posts in 14 non-DEIS post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: There has been an unprecedented increase in State investment in early learning and childcare since 2015, albeit from a low base. Over the period 2015-2018, investment increased by 84 per cent – rising from €265 million per annum to €485 million per annum. This increased investment provided for a doubling of State-funded pre-school under the ECCE Programme –...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Simon Harris: ...benefited from a once off reduction in the Student Contribution rate of €1,000 for the 2022/2023 academic year; - PhD students funded by the SFI and the IRC benefited from a once off payment of €500 in the current academic year; and - Post Graduate Students who met the eligibility criteria for a Postgraduate Fee Contribution Grant benefited from a once off increase in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2023)

Lisa Chambers: ...now to improve the organisation and make it a safe workplace for the women and men who serve in Óglaigh na hÉireann. Senator O'Loughlin also spoke about the ESB and its record profits of €840 million last year. She asked how a company can make such profits in light of the excessive and extortionate bills that many consumers are trying to pay. Senator Boyhan spoke about...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...time in our history, we have full employment and a job for everyone who wants one. For a country that knows the painful experience of centuries of emigration, we are now once again home to more than 5 million people, with people coming to Ireland from all over the world to avail the economic opportunities here. Under this Government, there are more Irish citizens returning home than...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Pearse Doherty: ...rate for home heating oil under the energy tax directive from 1 May to 31 October. The effect of the measure would be that a 900-litre fill of home heating oil would see a reduction of €125. It is a cost-of-living measure, taking cognisance of the fact that 37% of households that rely on home heating oil have received no fuel-specific support since the cost-of-living crisis began....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (29 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...with increases in their energy costs. The TBESS was introduced as part of a suite of government measures to counteract increased energy costs. Included in these cost of living measures was €90 million in once-off additional funding which was provided by my Department to support increased running costs for recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Mar 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...assists patients to access emergency dental treatment by directly contacting private contractors or arranging treatment to be provided by HSE-employed dentists. An additional allocation of €15 million has been made 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...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...by 11% in 2022 at a time when waiting lists are increasing in almost every other developed country in the world. The 2023 waiting list action plan was published on 7 March. For 2023, the Government has allocated €443 million to build on the work already done, with a projected reduction of slightly more than 10% in waiting lists by the end of the year. This includes €123...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...European level on land use and it is also the science we know internationally. Internationally, peatlands are particular because they are both a danger and a benefit. Drained peatlands amount to 5% of greenhouse gas emissions internationally even though it is only 0.3% of the land, whereas wetted or natural peatlands are a store. One has something which is potentially a benefit and when...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...to the same age-group and is, in fact, more generous that the one paid in Scotland. The Carer's Support Grant can be paid to a carer who has reached the age of 16 years. The grant is almost 5 times the value of the grant paid to young carers in Scotland and is not contingent on the the person or people you care for getting certain benefits themselves. The Carer’s Support...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €5 million allocated from NAMA in 2014 for the development of a heritage and visitor attraction at 14 -17 Moore Street. [15272/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Budget 2023 has provided €94.4 million for the programme. The Government has recently approved an additional €14.5m to allow access to the Hot School Meals scheme for all remaining DEIS schools from September 2023. ...