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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I am aware that Naas, Sallins and Kill, like many areas in close proximity to Dublin, continue to experience population growth, a position that almost inevitably places some strain on existing educational provision. However, a range of significant measures has been undertaken by my Department to address the current and future need for pupil places in those areas. At primary level an entire...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Feb 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds is a payment for people aged 65 who have ceased employment or self-employment and who satisfy the pay-related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. To qualify, a customer must have paid at least 104 PRSI insurable employment contributions at Class A , H or P OR have paid at least 156 PRSI self-employment contributions at Class S AND have paid at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Mr. Hubert Loftus: When we are looking at demographics, we look at what is the capacity of the existing school system before we look at new schools. That is our first port of call. Looking at demographics overall, the bulge has been there already for the past few years and has worked its way through primary education. Focusing on first-year numbers, to give a sense of where the bulge is...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I am aware that Sallins, Naas and Kill, like many areas located within close proximity to Dublin, continue to experience population growth, a position that almost inevitably places some strain on existing educational provision. However, a range of significant measures has been undertaken by my Department to address the current and future need for pupil places in these areas. At primary level,...

Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (7 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: I beg leave to announce, for the information of the House that after I had informed the President that Dáil Éireann had approved my nomination of Deputies to be members of the Government, the President on 27 June 2020 appointed them accordingly; that, on the same date, I nominated Deputy Leo Varadkar to be the Tánaiste and assigned the Department of Business, Enterprise and...

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We should come in here tomorrow at 7.30 a.m. Many patients have been waiting four years and will get up at 9 o'clock tonight in order to travel and be in hospital tomorrow at 5 a.m. That is what we are talking about and I suggest that we come in at 7.30 a.m. at the latest because the patients have been waiting for four and a half years. They would come in gladly.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)

Mr. John McCarthy: -----on that piece. We spoke earlier to Deputy Burke about the four-stage approval process. The figures I gave are sort of related to that. At the end of the third quarter of 2017, there were almost 2,900 units at stage 1, more than 1,600 at stage 2, 738 at stage 3 and just under 2,000 at stage 4, which is the tender report stage. There were 3,600 on site, and 1,460...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (26 May 2022)

...Graham: The Deputy mentioned the issue of rural housing. I think we are almost there in terms of producing the guidelines. Going back to a point made by Deputy Ó Broin, the review is looking at the role of guidelines at national, regional and local levels from a consistency point of view. We are looking at the benefits that national guidance should bring in ensuring there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (9 Oct 2012)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers affected by the pay cut for new entrants to teaching, the cap on qualification allowances for new entrants to teaching and the abolition of qualification allowances for new entrants to teaching; if he will provide specific information on the number of teachers who commenced teaching between 1 January, 2011 and 5 December,...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (14 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: To date no school has been given the option to purchase their rented prefab in 2012. Since 2009, as a result of my Department's review of temporary accommodation, 212 rented prefab units at 33 schools have been purchased, bringing an end to rental contracts at these schools. The yearly breakdown is as follows: 2009: 89 rented prefabs were purchased at 13 schools. 2010: 82 rented prefabs...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Data (11 Apr 2019)

Shane Ross: As Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, I have responsibility for overall policy and funding in relation to the national roads programme under the National Development Plan (NDP).  Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015, the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) in conjunction with the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Ms Caron McCaffrey: Yes. We need to upgrade our medical system. There is a strong commitment to do that. It is a recommendation that was made as part of the health needs assessment. At a systemic level we need to ensure all our systems talk to each other. We need to ensure we can extract the data. We have been doing a lot of work looking at what data we need. This is all aimed at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (8 May 2019)

John Paul Phelan: Under Part II of the Electoral Act 1992, every person is entitled to be entered on the register of electors if that person: - has reached the age of 18 years, and - is ordinarily resident in a constituency in the State. Subject to the age and residency requirements, a registered elector’s citizenship then determines the polls at which he or she is entitled to vote. Irish citizens...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 Feb 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: Currently in my Department's school building and modernisation programme, there are 74 projects at stage 3 (55 at primary and 19 at post primary level) which have been approved to proceed to tender and construction but are not yet on site. These projects include the 10 which I announced in January of this year and the 43 which I announced earlier this month. There are currently 28 projects...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: On the PRSI question, obviously the economy is performing extremely well. What we have done is what I said I would do, which is to keep the pension age at 66 and set out gradual PRSI increases over the next five years. The first one is kicking in at 0.1% from 1 October. That will cover the pay-related benefit and keep the pension age at 66. We will do it at small amounts and gradually....

Written Answers — North-South Implementation Bodies: North-South Implementation Bodies (28 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to take Questions Nos. 78 and 83 together. At the meeting of the North South Ministerial Council in plenary format on 18 November 2011, Ministers agreed that a number of proposals to advance the first element of the St Andrews Agreement Review would be discussed at the next round of NSMC meetings in sectoral format with a view to decisions being taken at the next NSMC Plenary...

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (9 Feb 2010)

Noel Dempsey: As I have previously informed the Deputy, the Commission for Aviation Regulation (CAR) regulates airport charges levied at Dublin Airport. Charges at Cork and Shannon are set by the airport authority. Passenger charges levied at the six regional airports, which are owned and operated independently, are a matter for each airport concerned. In relation to comparable charges at other European...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Mr. Robert Watt: Yes. The Meenan report did look at other jurisdictions and looked at the possibility of no-fault schemes, which was not recommended in the report. Certainly, as part of this review, we will look again at other jurisdictions and whether we can do better at reducing the instances of these events and at managing cases and settling them faster with a lower cost to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department purchased a 1.48 acre site in Crinion Park, Wicklow town in 2002 on the basis of Outline Planning Permission having being granted for an eight classroom primary school at this location. It was intended to provide permanent accommodation for Gaelscoil Chill Mhantáin on the site. Enrolments at the Gaelscoil have since grown and it now requires a 16...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (10 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...the current school year, the numbers employed in our schools have reached the highest ever level. Over 1,300 additional posts in schools have been funded, including more than 370 teaching posts to cater for growth in student population and additional special classes. This builds on the Budget 2018 measure which provided a one point improvement in the staffing schedule in primary schools...

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