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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I appreciate the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, standing in for the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, who is unavoidably absent this evening but I ask that the senior Minister would respond to me directly in the fullness of time on the important points I will raise. She, like the Minister of State, is passionate about rural Ireland and appreciates more than most the huge...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...families, currently by 25 per cent on average and by 50 per cent on average from September; — the roll-out of the ECCE programme, which enjoys uptake rates in excess of 95 per cent and has removed barriers to accessing pre-school education, with data from Growing Up in Ireland showing that more than 60 per cent of low income families would not have been able to send their child to...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...place and definitely before they need a secondary school place. It amazes me how the system seems to be surprised by children in an area needing supports. I do not believe there would be any data protection issues at play here that would prevent agencies from talking to each other and planning ahead. Instead, we have seen the HSE change the requirements to make sure it does not have to...

Residential Tenancies (Illegal Evictions) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (9 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...for the creation of an offence of the forcible ending of a tenancy; to provide for a power to award exemplary damages where an illegal eviction has been found to have occurred; to provide for data exchange between Board and Property Services Regulatory Authority and the Revenue Commissioners in order to establish the identity of landlord of a particular dwelling; for those purposes to...

Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...seek out different ways of amplifying our voice. It gave us the impetus to strengthen our own human rights record, to drive forward civil and social rights, to introduce gender equality legislation, to improve protection of workers’ rights and rights of minorities, and to become a much more tolerant, kinder and inclusive country than the Ireland of 1972. The people of Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...a function for the Northern Ireland Executive but a function for the British Government. The First Minister, deputy First Minister and I did have useful conversations about the importance of sharing information and data between our various officials, the importance of continued official engagement and acknowledging the good and important collaboration that happens very regularly between...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cybersecurity Policy (8 May 2024)

Alan Dillon: ...of €55 million in the service plan for 2024 to enhance cybersecurity. The Department of Health is informed that the HSE has worked with international and national cybersecurity experts to protect against future attacks. It should be remembered that the HSE has also obtained a High Court order following the ransomware attack in May 2021 restraining any sharing, processing,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Frank Feighan: ...Obviously, we have a CRPD committee, which has clearly articulated the interdependency of the State's legal obligation. Can the witnesses discuss the provisions that should be included under the protection of liberty safeguards Bill, which the Department is currently working on specifically with regard to disability residential settings? The Bill is delayed but the Department of Health...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (8 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...number of registrations for the grant is 65,979. Once these registrations are verified eligible businesses will be paid the grant. Now that the scheme is closed officials will be analysing the data and deciding on the next steps. On 5 March 2024, my Department and the Department of Social Protection published an assessment of the combined impact of proposed measures to improve...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...the Children Act 2001. I am advised by the Garda authorities that on 1 January 2022 and on 29 April 2024 there were fewer than ten JLO's assigned to Meath Division. I am also advised that data is not released by An Garda Síochána for counts less than 10 for data protection reasons.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 343. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the metrics she used to determine that 80% of persons seeking international protection had arrived in this jurisdiction via Northern Ireland; the date on which she and/or her officials began recording data in respect of migration figures via Northern Ireland to the State; and if she will provide the sample...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 384 and 385 together. Where is appears to the International Protection Office (IPO) that an applicant is a minor, the person in question is referred to Child and Family Agency (TUSLA) . TUSLA undertakes an assessment for eligibility for services and for those deemed to be unaccompanied minors, TUSLA support the young persons in making an application. There...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Helen McEntee: ...the personnel referenced may be identifiable to the general public, thus posing a potential risk to their safety. Furthermore, An Garda Síochána, along with fellow Government Departments and public bodies, is bound by existing Data Protection legislation; the release of figures fewer than 10 has the potential to compromise the protection and privacy of individuals employed by An...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The data requested by the Deputy is not available. The Department does not rent accommodation, but enters into a contract to provide accommodation related services for International Protection Applicants. Payment information is not collated by accommodation type in the manner outlined by the Deputy. In relation to service providers contracted by IPAS to provide accommodation services to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...advised that the Applicant had been convicted on an offence [...] in the UK and was in consequence registered as a sex offender. It appears that this information had been redacted by reason of data protection concerns before being placed on [his] immigration file. It also states: an "alert" was subsequently created on the 14th of January, 2022 on Applicant A's file [...] on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...zones, rents on existing tenancies are not allowed by law to go up by more than 2% per year. Despite this, there is no evidence the Government is doing anything to enforce the laws that are supposed to protect renters. Rents are at their highest ever level and have almost doubled in the past decade. There are record numbers of people homeless, record house prices and record numbers of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...on rainfall and real-time river gauge observations will not provide a sufficient lead time to allow for an effective response. The national flood forecasting service operated by Met Éireann provides data on flood risk for major catchments and is developing its service to improve flood forecasting for Midleton and other areas throughout the country. That is within the Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...visit to the site in 2022 by the then Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW, Deputy O'Donovan, Cork County Council applied for funding under the minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme to carry out a coastal erosion and risk management study. The core study area covers approximately 9.5 km of coastline from Youghal to Greenlands Strand or Ring Strand....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Targets (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...in public services and infrastructure. As outlined in the stability programme update published last week, the Government is providing investment of €97 billion across the public service to protect living standards, improve public services and safeguard our future through enhanced capital investment. Managing the delivery of such public services and public capital investment within...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (2 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...was allocated to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) as part of the emergency response to the increased demand for accommodation for those seeking protection in Ireland. The Office of Public Works (OPW) engaged fully with the relevant Government Departments managing the process over a number of months. Earlier this year DCEDIY informed the OPW...