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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: ...Department of Education chairs the group. The National Policy Group steered the development of a coherent, long-term strategic framework for lifelong guidance addressing the recommendations of the Indecon report, the OECD recommendations on skills and the key messages arising from the National Consultation on Lifelong Guidance. The National Strategic Framework for Lifelong Guidance and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...) side. The status of the port, and whether its current status potentially inhibits its development, was considered in a strategic review, commissioned by the Department of Transport and carried out by Indecon Economic Consultants. Their report concluded that the creation of an independent port authority would be extremely difficult, given the port's complex legal structure. Instead,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...or disability impairs or restricts a person’s capacity to work. My Department also provides a range of employment supports for disabled people who want to work or who are working. The Indecon Cost of Disability report identified that additional costs of disability run across many areas of expenditure, including housing, transport, health, and education. The report did not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 920 and 922 together. The Indecon Cost of Disability report was prepared following an extensive consultation with disabled people and disability stakeholders. This included one of the largest disability surveys ever undertaken in the State. The report identified that additional costs of disability run across a number of areas of expenditure including housing,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (14 Dec 2023)

Simon Harris: ...by Longford-Westmeath ETB in Mullingar. Housing for All:We have progressed work to enact the Construction Safety Licensing Bill, 2023 to enhance certification and regulation of construction sector skills. Adult Career Guidance: In line with the recommendations of the Indecon Review of Lifelong guidance report and the OECD Ireland Skills Strategy Review (2023) which have identified the need...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Bodies (13 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ..., transition and continuity planning, and risk management. This work will culminate in a fully costed full agency design and implementation plan which will be presented to Government for approval. Indecon International Consultants have recently been appointed by my Department to carry out this work. The implementation of this reform programme will likely require considerable lead-in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...meeting regulatory and quality requirements. Since 2020, the number of childminding officers (CMDOs) based in the City and County Childcare Committees has increased from 6 to 22 FTEs, one in every county. Their role is to directly support childminders in all aspects of their business. It is hoped that the new regulations will be ready for implementation, and registration open to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (12 Dec 2023)

Simon Harris: ...by Longford-Westmeath ETB in Mullingar. Housing for All:We have progressed work to enact the Construction Safety Licensing Bill, 2023 to enhance certification and regulation of construction sector skills. Adult Career Guidance: In line with the recommendations of the Indecon Review of Lifelong guidance report and the OECD Ireland Skills Strategy Review (2023) which have identified the need...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Dec 2023)

Simon Harris: ...by Longford-Westmeath ETB in Mullingar. Housing for All:We have progressed work to enact the Construction Safety Licensing Bill, 2023 to enhance certification and regulation of construction sector skills. Adult Career Guidance: In line with the recommendations of the Indecon Review of Lifelong guidance report and the OECD Ireland Skills Strategy Review (2023) which have identified the need...

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

Heather Humphreys: ...or disability impairs or restricts a person’s capacity to work. My department also provides a range of employment supports for disabled people who want to work or who are working. The Indecon Cost of Disability report identified that additional costs of disability run across many areas of expenditure, including housing, transport, health, and education. The report did not...

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

Heather Humphreys: ...unable to work due to illness or disability. These include insurance-based schemes, based on Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contributions, and means tested social assistance schemes. The Indecon Cost of Disability Report identified that additional costs of disability run across many areas of expenditure, including housing, transport, health, and education. These need to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

.... Medical staff may require training in this area. We are also aware the cost of medical or social care supports has been cited as a reason for considering assisted dying in other jurisdictions. An Indecon report on the cost of disability that was published at the end of 2021 through the Department of Social Protection highlighted the additional costs that can attend having a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (5 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ... of Early Year’s coverage and sampling approach to Beneficiary Funding Mazars 2022 Q4 2023 Research to inform the design of a National Early Learning and Childcare Agency Indecon Economic Consultants 2023 2025 Parent Poll of households with children age 14 and under to see their childcare usage ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (28 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...Ipsos Published on 1st June 2023 Research into food poverty in Ireland Amárach Research Ongoing Evaluation of the Back to Work Family Dividend Indecon Economic Consultants Ongoing Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund as at 31st December 2020 KPMG Published on 28th March 2023 ...

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

Joan Collins: ...to meeting the needs of people with disabilities. It is difficult to understand how the cost of disability payment, acknowledged and introduced for the first time in Budget 2023 at €500, has not been continued." The DFI also said: “These costs were acknowledged in the Indecon Report, and the recent Green Paper, at €8,700 to €12,300 per year and yet there are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: ...aspiration of the scheme. However, on all occasions when the matter was formally examined to date, concerns in this regard were not borne out by the review data. Studies carried out by Indecon economic consultants found the main driver of house prices was the mismatch between supply and demand, rather than the existence of the scheme. Similarly, the review by Mazars in 2022 found that...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. William Beausang: As the Secretary General has said, evaluation is really important to us. It is important to say that we have had two major pieces of work done, one by Indecon and LE Europe and the other by the OECD, looking at the overall delivery of our skills system. The OECD report was published in May 2023 and the Indecon-LE Europe report was published in May 2021. These looked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Dr. Kevin Smyth: If we look back on the history, we did have a previous board on which were 19 members. Indecon found that to be very unwieldy and I would agree with that. The problem is that when there are 26 affiliates, they all want to be on the board in some shape or form. I believe what we need here is the board of nine. It is the view of the interim board that we need it fully...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Welfare Services (9 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...the organisations concerned from other sources, for example, from income generated from the use of facilities and services provided. Following the independent review of the CSP programme in 2020 by Indecon International Economic Consultants, as part of the restructuring process, a needs-based, differentiated funding allocation model was designed for the programme, as an alternative to the...

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

Heather Humphreys: ...Disability Reform. The Green Paper’s key proposal is to introduce a new tiered disability payment with associated employment supports. This proposal takes into consideration the recommendations of Indecon’s Cost of Disability report, commissioned by this department. The report found that there is no single, typical cost of disability. Rather, income supports should...