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Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...members of the Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality. It is not a coincidence that of the 45 recommendations on gender equality made by the committee, 16 related specifically to care and social protection. We also made a recommendation on constitutional change in respect of care, which I will speak about in a moment. The reason 16 of the recommendations related to care and social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Simon Coveney: No, but I can say that the value of data centres is not the people who are employed in them. There is no digital economy without data centres. All sectors of the economy are moving onto digital platforms. If we want to develop a resilient economy in the future that can protect the quality of life we have in Ireland, that can provide the kind of employment and career opportunities that many...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Tenancies Board (RTB) Rent Index is designed to measure developments in rental prices faced by those taking up new tenancies in the private rental sector and for the first time utilising Annual Registration data, existing tenancy rent price developments. The Rent Index report is the most accurate and authoritative rent report of its kind on the private rental sector in Ireland. Compared to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Maximum rent limits for HAP were set for each housing authority area in 2016 in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection (DSP). In reviewing the rent limits, my Department worked closely with DSP and monitored data gathered from the Residential Tenancies Board and the HAP Shared Services Centre. A key principle of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is that eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 51 and 79 together. According to the latest census data available there are almost 500,000 domestic waste water treatment systems (DWWTS), mostly septic tanks, in Ireland. Under the Water Services Acts 2007 and 2012, it is the responsibility of the owners to ensure that their DWWTS is fit for purpose, operational and kept in good order. Owners of septic tanks...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...thresholds for over those aged over 70 will increase to €512 per week for a single person over 70 and €1,024 per week for a couple. Applicants aged over 70 no longer need to be receiving a qualifying social protection payment and the threshold for the capital disregard increased from €20,000 to €50,000. For those aged under 70, the means threshold was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...thresholds for over those aged over 70 will increase to €512 per week for a single person over 70 and €1,024 per week for a couple. Applicants aged over 70 no longer need to be receiving a qualifying social protection payment and the threshold for the capital disregard increased from €20,000 to €50,000. For those aged under 70, the means threshold was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) as the Department with policy responsibility, is also leading on a project to secure the provision of modular homes to accommodate Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from the Ukraine. For 2023, the Government has agreed that there will be increased provision for social housing acquisitions and my Department will fund...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (7 Dec 2023)

Helen McEntee: ...managed by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). I have enacted a law to improve post release supervision of sex offenders and to provide for electronic tagging. I have also introduced and enacted a law to facilitate access to certain communications data to protect national security and tackle serious crime. Other important pieces of legislation include a new Police Powers Bill and a Bill to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...framework for forestry in Ireland. The Forestry Act 2014 defines deforestation as the conversion of a forest into land that is not a forest. The regulation of forestry is necessary in order to protect forests and also to ensure that forestry operations and activities are carried out in compliance with the principles of sustainable forest management (SFM). There is an obvious need to avoid...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...butter, cheese and Irish whiskey. Preliminary Central Statistics Office (CSO) results indicate that in 2022, the agrifood sector accounted for 6.7% of GNI*, up from 6.2% in 2021 and 6.4% in 2020. CSO data also indicates the value of output at producer prices or farm gate prices rose from €8.4 billion in 2020 to €12.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 47%. At the same time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Helen McEntee: ...welcome and has been sought for some time. Connected to that legislation are amendments around CCTV. For some time, colleagues in the House have called for changes in respect of issues relating to the general data protection regulation, GDPR, that have arisen and that prevented some communities from putting up CCTV cameras. Time and again, whether it is in our city centres or rural...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Collins: ...not legally required to accept unlimited numbers. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth reports a significant 37% increase in non-Ukrainian residents in international protection accommodation services, IPAS, in 2023, reaching a total of 26,092 by 26 November 2023. Currently, there are more than 26,092 IPAS residents in more than 200 centres across...

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...aggregated numbers of living and deceased donors and the types and quantities of organs procured and transplanted, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with European Union and national provisions on the protection of personal data and statistical confidentiality, to include: (i) deaths in hospitals; (ii) number of potential donors; (iii) number of donors actually requested to donate;...

Seanad: Sex Offenders (Amendment) (Coercive Control) Bill 2023: Second Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Mark Wall: ...perpetrator of that violence. Many of them, as has been said by all contributors, are in intimate relationships, as commented upon by the former State pathologist time and again recently. According to data from Women's Aid, some 87% of women violently killed in Ireland since 1996 knew their killer, and over half of them were killed by a current or former partner. That is a very important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

...50% figure is coming from. There is no reason veterinary fees would have gone up by 50%. We did try to get CSO date on whether veterinary fees and costs have increased but there is no available data from the CSO. On the possibility of entering into rate agreements with rescue centres, as Mr. Cashman has alluded to, we can have no role in the setting of fees. We would need to get the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (6 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The national air quality monitoring network is operated, maintained, and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme. My Department has provided funding for a significant upgrade to the network in recent years, and as a consequence the number of monitoring stations has increased from 29 in 2017 to 114 today. The expansion will be...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (6 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) is continuing to work on the finalisation of draft Codes of Practice and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), which are fundamental to the future operation of CCTV schemes aimed at assisting waste enforcement and anti-litter efforts, including the monitoring of illegal dumping and dog fouling. The LGMA circulated draft Codes of Practice and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (6 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...CAP23 timeline of Q2 2025. Research is undertaken under the Climate Action Plan hierarchy of AVOID-SHIFT-IMPROVE and to support climate change adaptation and plays a key role in identifying and addressing gaps in data, and in modelling the impacts of emissions and carbon reduction measures across the interconnected transport, economic and social systems. The National Sustainable Mobility...