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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (15 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of the quality of provision. Phase 1 of the National Action Plan, which is nearing completion, allows for consultation, research and development actions, to ensure that the regulations that apply to childminders are appropriate to the home environment, to build the quality support infrastructure required (including expansion of inspectorates and provision of training), and to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (15 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Group’s advice, a person’s means remains the main qualifier for a medical card. However, every effort is made by the HSE, within the framework of the legislation, to support applicants in applying for a medical card and, in particular, to take full account of the difficult circumstances in the case of applicants who may be in excess of the income guidelines. The HSE may...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (15 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...effective operation since 1 January 2021. This Scheme was introduced to mitigate the loss of access to care from private providers in Northern Ireland under the EU Cross Border Directive, which ceased to apply as a result of Brexit. The current administrative scheme enables persons ordinarily resident in the State to access and be reimbursed for private healthcare in Northern Ireland by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 May 2024)

Niall Collins: ...and participate in community education. It is administered at a local level through the 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs) who advertise the Fund inviting Community education providers to apply for funding for eligible projects. SOLAS issues annual guidelines for the operation of the Fund and approves an allocation for ETB for the Fund. The 2024 Guidelines requested ETBs to complete...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Richard Bruton: ...powerful companies, using technology that is so intimate in its influence it will be hard for regulators, other than through principle-based regulation, to keep up and to understand the codes being applied? We have all lived through financial crisis where there was principle-based regulation, so it needs to be more than that. I am interested in that. The EU is talking about strategic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...to engage in the potential use of military forces overseas in support of peacekeeping, etc. What has happened in the past two years has totally supercharged that agenda. The European Union is now applying the kinds of innovative legal and financial practices it did for Covid. This is seen as that level of existential crisis as far as the European Union is concerned. Dr. McDonagh has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024) See 15 other results from this debate

...taxes deducted by employers from their employees and value-added tax. Today is effectively the end of the warehouse scheme. With effect from today, 15 May, Revenue’s systems will be updated to automatically apply the standard interest rates of 8% and 10% on any outstanding warehoused debt. As of yesterday, more than 11,800 phased payment arrangements had been agreed for just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Neasa Hourigan: Ms Rogers is absolutely correct. For clarity, there is an acceptance at those meetings that the recruitment embargo should not apply and yet it is repeatedly coming up in those meetings for discussion around the impact it might be having on the service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024) See 11 other results from this debate

...30-minute operation. We want to make this a complete organisational effort, in effect. It is not our idea - we copied this initiative from elsewhere. In other jurisdictions it was successfully applied. This is precisely why we want local gardaí and community gardaí in the local regular units, those on the 24-7, to attend to more minor infringements through education, warning...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...tonight, but my question is based on a series of questions trying to get a handle on the community-based projects. On the specific question asked tonight the Minister of State tells me ten applied and eight remain in the scheme. Can we get any details on where those eight are? What happened to the other two? He then said they are going to progress through different stages and through...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (14 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...will start in July 2024 and complete in August this year. I do not have data on Baile Bhuirne. I will come back to the Deputy on that. If he comes to my office I will give him the answer. That applies to any other area the Deputy is curious about. I will go back to NBI to see if it can provide more detailed information on when surveys are happening. People are curious to know when...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Alan Farrell: ...the entry point for the cans and bottles is located as it does matter? My other question is twofold. The first is on retailers clearing out old stock and either deliberately or unfortunately applying the return cost. I have no evidence but have heard remarks made by constituents that this is occurring. The other relates to restaurateurs. Are they to charge for the DRS for cans they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (14 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...incidents in the State, and builds resilience in IT systems with particular emphasis on critical infrastructure and Government. Those resilience-building measures include a set of security requirements applied to critical infrastructure which is to be augmented and expanded through the transposition of the new network information security directive, NIS2; a formal information sharing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (14 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...of this scheme and I would imagine that will be the Minister of State's argument, that it will not be like that all the time. However, if we are looking at Denmark and its 92% rate of recycling, if we apply that in Ireland, that would still mean there are 152 million cans and bottles every year that will not be returned through this scheme. That would equate to between €23 million...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...excluded from the legislation. I really welcome their inclusion. The proposed amendments to the fair deal scheme will enhance the safeguards for family farms and businesses by allowing them to apply to extended family members, including cousins, great-nephews, great-nieces and great-grandchildren, thereby protecting the viability and sustainability of those businesses into the future....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Paul Donnelly: At least 13 families in Dublin 15 have no school place for September for autistic children. Ellis, aged 5, has no school place. He has applied for 24 schools and received 24 refusals. What is required? His parents need to fill in the school application, give two proofs of address via bills, give his original birth cert and baptismal cert and give proof of his PPS number, along with all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...increased, as it was, there is a lower rate of employers’ PRSI so that employers do not feel like they are being hit twice? Can we look at things like the commitment in the programme for Government to apply an SME test? It is easy for us in here to come up with a great idea, but often we do not have to pay for it. It is the small and medium businesses that do and we need to...