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Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...and the progress we saw in the budget but it is still not working for parents, professionals, providers or, indeed, children. Just today, I got an email from a constituent in Dublin Bay South telling me the crèche their child was in had raised the fees substantially on the day the budget was announced. I know the Minister is proposing a new funding model and I very much welcome any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank our guests for their contributions. I found them particularly exciting, if I can use that word, because I feel there is an historic opportunity for us to grasp reform of the leaving certificate and do something with it. I do not think anybody who has been through it or who has a family member going through it or who is in the system can pretend it should stay as it is. Even the...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...up and running in a proper way for children under the age of six. No family in Ireland, when a child woke up in the middle of the night with a rash, whether a skin irritation or meningitis, had to worry about a €60 fee for a GP because of the scheme. He was not thanked for it by the electorate but that man can sleep at night knowing he delivered something for the people of...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...for childcare, without any tangible effect for those involved. We see some fine words in this budget, but no sign of any reduction in costs for parents who are now paying effectively a second mortgage in fees to crèches, with fees for children aged under five running at approximately €1,000 a month in my constituency in Dublin Bay South and throughout Dublin. There is also a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of the Attorney General (12 Oct 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Gerald Nash: ...compromised, the date on which any settlement mechanism, arbitration, mediation or otherwise; the time taken including preparation time; and if the Attorney General charged or intends to charge a fee or fees of any description. [48922/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...he will provide an update on the development and roll-out of a new funding model for childcare, for early learning and care and for school-age childcare in view of the recent crèche closures and fee increases in childcare facilities in an area (details supplied). [48516/21]

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...working in the sector, and, indeed, security for the provider. As other Members have said, we know parents face enormous costs in childcare. In my constituency of Dublin Bay South, high rates of fees are the norm. Approximately €1,000 a month is the norm for child and that is really difficult for parents to pay, as anyone can appreciate. We have heard witnesses say that Irish...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Sherlock: ...Appeals Officer will be assigned at the Authority. A time period of 30 days is available in which to submit to the Appeals Officer. The appeal must be in writing, by the master and is subject to a fee (to be determined). The issue raised by the committee was that "The Bill does not address concerns regarding the ‘balance of probabilities’ providing the required threshold...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...because this level of complacency is part of the problem. I would suggest that none of us in Opposition parties have ramped up anxiety or tried to play to a gallery in trying to make people feel as though schools are unsafe. We have been trying to do the right thing. I would also suggest however that if the Government is not hearing what we are hearing, then maybe it is not listening as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated of cost of reducing apprentice fees by 20%, 50% and 100%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39873/21]

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Youth Mental Health and Psychological Services: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...I am increasingly of the opinion that things like unpaid internships and unpaid requirements for people to qualify are unethical because it is a financial barrier by another name. My thoughts on fees are well known but unpaid internships and training are unethical and they are locking people out of the sector. We are talking about young people having a lack of hope and feeling very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Annie Hoey: ...from the Covid-19 pandemic? The conversation has sped along when it comes to telemedicine. Have the witnesses any further thoughts on that? I will follow up Deputy Shortall's question around user fees as I know the witness was tight on time. She might want to elaborate on that. There has been quite a lively outcry online relating to consultant Sláintecare contracts, so what is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...Education for All campaign. Other Senators may have passed representatives of the union outside the gates of Leinster House this morning. At €3,000, Irish students are now paying the highest fees in Europe. When I was president of USI in 2015 and 2016, we campaigned against an increase in the student contribution fee. It is, obviously, a position about which I still feel...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...powerfully about our conception of affordability and how that needs to change. I heard huge concerns from residents about the lack of provision for apartments, about the issues around management fees, around the setting of rents but in particular, about the failure to provide the supply of housing for an area where it is sorely needed and where many young people are being priced out of...

Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021: First Stage (12 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...Act 1990, and to provide for related matters. A pension is often the second most expensive item a person will purchase during his or her working life, after a home, yet understanding the fees and charges is really difficult. For years, various Government reports and reports from international think tanks have highlighted the problem of relatively high charges and fees in Ireland and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...unit of her Department instructed LMETB to retender the entire project in June 2018; her views on the fact the project has seen expenditure of €400,000 of public funding spent on design team fees and related matters to date without any building having commenced on the site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24340/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (5 May 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...for Education and Skills when section 34 of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019 will be commenced; if he will ensure that a waiver scheme for fees is introduced for those providers required to engage with QQI on a process to re-establish quality assurance and programme validation given the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on training and...

Seanad: Business and Covid-19: Statements (30 Apr 2021)

Mark Wall: ...at home, there are a number of points I would like to bring up with the Tánaiste.There is a very welcome exemption for restaurants to operate as takeaways for the remainder of 2021. The removal of section 254 fees was also a step in the right direction. However, I have received a number of queries from those operating in our towns and villages about the third part of the...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...or in a trade, once people obtain it, they are ready to contribute to society and build their lives and communities. They must not be left crippled with debt, whether from the cost of accommodation, fees or anything else associated with getting that qualification. We need to invest in our young people and support them. We must ensure that the ceiling on what they can do is raised as...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (28 Apr 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...2019 (detail supplied); the actions his Department has taken and subsequently plans to take to address the stated aims of the regulation to ensure a high level of transparency and for costs and fees to be fully transparent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21375/21]