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Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: Data from the 2022 survey on income and living conditions shows that those living in one-adult households with children under 18 years were among the groups most likely to experience enforced deprivation, at over 43% compared to nearly 18% of the population as a whole. The treatment of child maintenance payments within the Department of Social Protection as means, and the requirement to make...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

...was in order. With regard to classification for PRSI purposes, I repeat what I said before, which is that the issue of misclassification is not as significant as people perhaps think it is. The data does not show that it is. That does not mean we do not take it seriously. We received a number of recommendations from this committee previously, all of which we have implemented. We have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: In it’s 2017 publication “Cannabis for Medical Use – A Scientific Review” the Health Products Regulatory Authority found that at that timeThere was an absence of scientific data demonstrating the effectiveness (efficacy) of cannabis products. The safety of cannabis as a medical treatment is not well characterised.There was insufficient information on its safety...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...HSE and Lead Agencies to provide assessments. The Roadmap for Services launched in October will be examining the matter of AON from a wider perspective than what has happened to date, with the future development of solutions to the challenges of AON taking account of all stakeholder input, including that of families. Department of Social Protection Enhanced State Pension Provision for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...continue to engage with DHLGH in relation to the refurbishment of vacant property, which forms an important strand of the student accommodation longer term policy. Local Authorities are currently gathering data on vacant properties in their functional areas. This data can be used to report on vacancy levels and to identify prospective properties for refurbishment. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Building Energy Rating (18 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...energy improvements offered as part of the Scheme. The upgrades that will be recommended for a property will depend on many factors, including age, type and condition of the property. Preliminary data from SEAI shows that last year, a total of approximately 5,900 homes were upgraded under the scheme with an average spend per home of €24,000. As home types vary for each eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: When an International Protection claim is being examined by the International Protection Office (IPO), the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) provides accommodation and related services to IP applicants who wish to accept such services. No person is required to stay in any accommodation that is provided by the State. However, applicants for international protection are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...leave to land, As such, all of the 3,285 persons recorded without valid identity documents were refused leave to enter the State. While systems do not allow for the extraction of the precise data requested, it is the case that the majority of those who present without appropriate documentation and refused leave to land seek to enter the international protection process. It is also the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: My Department is unable to publish any information that would identify any person as being an international protection applicant. This is a separate matter to the law dealing with data protection matters more generally. My officials and I are legally obliged, under Section 26 of the International Protection Act 2015, to ensure that the identity of any person who applies for international...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Payment details for the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) accommodation centres are deemed confidential and commercially sensitive. It would not serve the public interest to divulge payment rates to contractors for services as it could prejudice the Department's negotiating position to deliver value for money with respect to other accommodation providers and locations. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Support Services (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., compared to 64% - 85% for Universities. TUS had the highest employment rate, at 86.9% while the University of Galway had the lowest (64.4%) The Central Statistics Office also publish data on higher education outcomes, matching HEA graduate data against administrative data sources such as Revenue and Department of Social Protection records. The latest data published, which relates to...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: ...4 per cent increase on the same three months of 2022; — a record 22,443 homes completed 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 data series began in 2011; — that 9,662 dwelling units were granted planning...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Digital Services Bill 2023: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Dara Calleary: ...the scope of the Bill. Therefore, all proposed amendments must be considered against this backdrop. I will reflect briefly on some of the issues raised on Second Stage. The Digital Services Act places the protection of freedom of expression at its core. It imposes rules on platforms to enhance the transparency of content moderation decisions. It provides users with a right of appeal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

...customers on hardship prepay meters were moved onto the lowest tariffs available from their suppliers. However, there are other prepay customers who are not on hardship meters who do not have this protection and might be paying the poverty premium. We have a number of recommendations for prepay customers. It is a complex issue that rears its head for customers in different ways. In...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: I can assure the Deputy that an effective governance framework is in place to enable my Department to meet its obligations under data protection legislation. This governance framework was adopted in accordance with the Department’s obligations under the GDPR. Sharing of personal data with other public sector bodies is for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes. Personal data...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...of Ireland's more than 140 genetically distinct salmon stocks, including in the Roughty, is assessed by the independent TEGOS Group. TEGOS is comprised of scientists from a range of organisations and use data averaged over 5 years to ensure that a "good" or "bad" year does not disproportionately impact its evidence-based assessments. These assessments support the annual management advice...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy will be aware, the sharing of data is covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which took effect from 25 May 2018, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019 with the commencement of final sections of that Act coming into effect in December last year. With regard to personal and or person-specific data sets, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: A report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2021 concluded that there is little reliable data on the nature and extent of post-consumer textiles in Ireland. The report is available here: www.epa.ie/publications/circular-economy/resources/nature-an d-extent-of-post-consumer-textiles-in-ireland---study-report .php To address the information and data gaps identified by the EPA, my...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: My Department does not hold a schedule of personal and or person-specific data sets provided and/or shared with other public bodies in the past 20 years. In cases where it is necessary for my Department to share personal data with another public body, this is carried out as part of our official functions using an applicable legal basis under Article 6 of the General Data Protection...