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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...we move. We had several debates last during the course of the last year on nursing homes, in particular Beaumont. People have concerns over the funding model and that needs to continue to be examined. More strategically, we need to significantly increase the number of beds that are provided through the State system and through the community system for nursing homes. There is a severe...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...give us greater scope to ensure the money in the fund is put to work for Ireland by investing in green energy, housing projects and other key areas of benefit to society. Part of the reason we are examining this issue is that we are potentially looking forward to a different future. The pension system was very much structured on the assumption that people would own their own home or be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in light of her not proceeding further with the consultation on the Green Paper on disability payments, she intends to examine a cost-of-disability payment; and whether she intends to introduce different reforms to the disability payments. [18467/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...Tully has a similar question, namely question No. 6. Many people welcomed the decision not to proceed further with the with consultation on the Green Paper and to walk away from the proposals examined in it. Questions now arise as to what happens next. What happens with the opinions that were submitted? There is a recognition that some reform is needed. How does the Minister intend to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...types of disability can cost differently and there may be different housing costs. The advocates for disability payment have advocated that it is a relatively individualised payment. The examination of the cost will require work and consideration. There are also problems and inconsistencies with the current system even aside from that. For example, someone on disability payment does...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on her examination of the issues facing kinship carers who receive nominal contributions from birth parents and who may then be prevented from receiving guardianship allowance. [18470/24]

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: .... I was recently speaking to a gentleman who was asked about construction work that he and his brother had done 30 years ago. The means test can be extremely onerous and challenging, and we need to reflect on that. The means threshold is too low, so it is welcome that we are looking at this area. It is also worth examining the participation income. There is a difference given that...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...budget, beyond the general increase in working age payments, we proposed an additional payment increase of up to €20 for people on disability-related payments. More than that is needed. We must examine introducing a specific cost-of-disability payment. The fact is that people with disabilities in Ireland are far more likely to be at risk of poverty and far less likely to be in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...the answer he received was that it was not being changed at the moment but the Government would keep an eye on it. Will the Department elaborate on the logic? Has there been more than a cursory examination of this in the past year or two? Has there been an active discussion of whether people on invalidity pension can be brought into the warmer homes scheme?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I accept that. To some extent, I see it as a minor bit of progress in that the Minister is not saying there is any policy objection from the Department to examine that. That is positive because there has been a firm resistance in the past to examining that. It was a recession era change. The message that people, particularly the organisations, have got is that it is immovable. If the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...entitled to the international protection payments, similar to Ukrainians who arrived after the passing of that legislation and are in accommodation. Will the Minister clarify the position? Is the Government examining this? How is the Department preparing for the end of the directive? What does it see as its role in terms of those applicants or claimants at the expiry of the protection...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...Ireland, Treoir and a variety of others. We want to take child maintenance out of the courts and instead see a statutory agency step in when it comes to the arrangement, calculation and payment of child maintenance, rather than leaving it up to the lone parent alone. We know that child maintenance, where paid, can play a key role in reducing child poverty. That is one reason having a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...well off than they were under the previous minimum wage. That is statistically the case. Surely the Minister of State will accept that the differential advantage has been eroded. Is this going to be examined over the course of the next 12 months? Will the Department consider linking the two? It would be logical that they should keep pace and that the advantage and incentive remains...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...x2019;s Benefit to Lone Parents 8.The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on extending the availability of the full duration of Parent’s Benefit to lone parents to examine the effect that enabling all children to equally avail of the full duration of this Benefit would have and that the report shall be presented to the Oireachtas Joint...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister. I will examine that report. I will make a couple of points regarding what she pushed back on in respect of transferability. I agree in the instance of two-parent families that it is right that the time be shared, which is the model in many countries. It is very often the case that people will take a chunk of leave and will then change places and take another chunk...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...of this. The Government should have done more in social protection to assist families. I welcome the extension of child benefit to those aged 18 and in full-time education. I have been contacted by many parents who are disappointed that their children will not be in a position to receive it because they will turn 18 between now and next September. If there is scope to re-examine this, I...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...special education, primarily the city services in my constituency. One of the big issues I see is the challenge of finding drivers when a route is sanctioned. This is a huge problem which needs to be examined. I am dealing with two cases at the moment, both involving mothers who do not drive. In one instance, the woman in question has serious mobility issues and is waiting on a knee...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ..., if they have any sense that the role is delivering, they will need to have a sense that this person can effect change in all those areas. That is crucially important. Some of that will involve examining the nature of funding streams that exist for capital projects and so on. Even aside from that capital point, an awful lot more can be done regarding executive and reserve functions...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (6 Jul 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...disability payments are on very high incomes. Given the current thresholds for the disability allowance, there are many people on modest incomes who benefit little or not at all. That needs to be examined separate from the cost of disability piece. I am glad the straw man proposal is progressing. If the Minister can provide more insight on what she means by "shortly", which is a very...

Local Government and Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Carrigaline Rent Pressure Zone) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Jun 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...going to increase. I take this opportunity to flag the fact that affordable housing is a big need there, particularly as the price of houses rises. The county council and the Minister of State's Department need to examine that. There is one scheme and maybe one more progressing over the next while but a lot more is needed in the area. It is in the county council area but,...