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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regulatory Bodies (25 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: ...sector to both the economy and society, robust regulation of networks and services in a manner that enables investment, ensures operational resilience and trust and appropriate consumer protection requires a fit-for-purpose communications regulator. Both my officials and I meet regularly with ComReg to discuss a range of policy and regulatory issues, including the timely and adequate...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Quality (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The national air quality monitoring stations are operated, maintained and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency under the ambient air quality monitoring programme. My Department has provided funding for a significant upgrade to the network in recent years and the number of monitoring stations has increased from 29 in 2017 to 116 today. All stations collect air quality data for a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses (25 Jan 2024)

...the majority of property owners make reasonable and honest efforts to value their properties. This aligns with the findings of our detailed analysis and comparison of self-assessed property valuation bands across the 31 local authority areas with CSO data. The payment compliance rates for LPT for 2022 and 2023 are 97% and 95%, respectively. The debt warehousing scheme was introduced in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As required under the legislation, the three draft Codes of Practice allowing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant use of CCTV technology under both the Waste Management Act and the Litter Pollution Act and for the use of mobile recording devices under the Waste Management Act were submitted to me in my role as Minister by the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Children in Care (25 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: .../fp/fp-eaacc/educationa lattendanceandattainmentofchildrenincare2018-2023/. The report is part of the CSO Frontier Series and may use new methods which are under development and / or data sources which may be incomplete, for example, new administrative data sources. In this report, of the 9,744 children in care during January 2023 or children who left care since April 2018, 77% were...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (25 Jan 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...a TV licence, is calculated on the basis of comparing the total number of TV Licences issued, including both direct sales by An Post and ‘free’ licences provided by the Department of Social Protection under the Household Benefits Package, with the total number of licensable premises. The number of licensable dwellings is based on regular CSO data, which is modified to take...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: International Protection Accommodation Service The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) works at all times to ensure accommodation capacity is utilised in the most effective manner possible. Across IPAS’s 265 properties variances exist between maximum capacity and actual number international protection applicants in residence. The largest part of this differentials is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2024)

Lisa Chambers: ...or trust. It is an ongoing challenge. We have done a good job to date and people are very alert. Even older people are more alert now to what might be coming through. The best way we can protect people is through education and dialogue and by highlighting that these are just part and parcel of life now. However, the Senator is right in saying that the banks need to do their best to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)

...hosts at least 25% of biodiversity on the planet. It is the foundation of the food chain and the largest terrestrial carbon pool on the planet. However, soils do not receive the same level of legal protection in the EU as air and water. The European Parliament, other EU institutions, stakeholders and citizens have therefore called on the Commission to develop an EU legal framework for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

...kinds of situations have arisen in the private sector. They are way out of line. Workers need access, physically and digitally, to trade unions. There are obviously issues around the general data protection regulation, GDPR, in the European Union, and we have to try to address and deal with that. However, we think we need a suite of legislation that gives designated trade union...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (24 Jan 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...decisively with the introduction of wide range of actions in 2021 to provide a disincentive on the bulk purchase of homes. These actions are working. Estimates, based on Revenue and CSO data, show that the higher stamp duty rate has applied to less than 1% of residential property transactions in the May 2021 to October 2023 period, and has applied to less than 2% of total new dwellings...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Sign Language (24 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...Ireland (ISI) ISI posted seven videos to social media in 2023 on YouTube and Facebook. Four of these included closed captioning (YouTube only) which equates to 57%. Use of Irish Sign Language (ISL) is planned for 2024. Data Protection Commission (DPC) One video was posted on the DPC’s social media channels in 2023. This did not have closed captioning/subtitling.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Michael McGrath: The data that we have, which we shared with the Deputy, points to about 1,200 properties being purchased where the 10% stamp duty was paid. The Deputy is seeking a change in the rate of stamp duty to, I think, a minimum of 17%. It is reasonable for me to point out that we have just come through a lengthy Finance Bill process and the Deputy, as the lead Opposition spokesperson, did not raise...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...the welfare and safety of any child born through AHR, they are concerned about the implications of the current wording. They argue that AHR providers may not have the skills, expertise or means of access to sensitive data to fulfil this role. Furthermore, they suggest that over-investigation of a case by a provider may be inappropriate and could lead to discrimination of vulnerable...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...CFRAM programme. Cork County Council is leading the design of the scheme and in 2017 appointed engineering and environmental consultants. Designing any flood relief scheme is complex and requires data on the flood sources and their associated risks. Today, some 100 schemes are at design and construction stages. Midleton has proven to be a more complex scheme. It has flood risks...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Security (23 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...he will be aware, Ireland, like many other countries in Europe, has witnessed a fundamental change in our security environment in the past year, with an increased focus on maritime security and the protection of subsea cables. The security of Ireland’s subsea infrastructure is a matter of utmost importance to the Government. As I informed the House on 22 November during a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...comprehensive radar system, to assess the requirements for Ireland in that respect and to procure one. On subsea cables, obviously aerial support is important. There are a number of dimensions to protecting subsea cables, the most critical one being collaboration with other EU member states, the US and other countries. The monitoring is done globally and different countries alert each...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in the first nine months of 2023, an 8.9 per cent increase on the same period in 2022 and the highest number of completions recorded for the first three quarters of any year since the Central Statistics Office (CSO) data series began in 2011; — there are very positive signs that the uplift in new home delivery will be sustained in 2024 and over the coming years, with almost 33,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...steel manufacturing sectors. These companies represented jobs in our communities at a time when they were few and far between. While people today who hear "large energy user" may automatically jump to data centres, this was not the case back in 2009. As members can see, the top large energy users of that time mainly represented manufacturing and education sectors. In 2009, following...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: Records containing personal data are transferred on both an individual basis and in aggregated form from my Department to other public authorities depending on the circumstances. The format is decided upon on the basis of the purpose of the data sharing activity and the technical and organisational measures deemed appropriate to ensure the security of the data in accordance with the...