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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...5.8% for the wider population. The employment rate for disabled people cited in the Green Paper is 37% compared with 73% for the general working population. For comparison, the EU average is closer to 50%. The Indecon cost of disability report found that the overall average annual cost of disability in Ireland ranged from €9,482 to €11,734. The report made a number of key...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: ..., and 28,000 have two properties. In response to the concerns of Deputies Conway-Walsh and Nash about the potential for house price increases arising from the existence of the help-to-buy scheme, previous studies carried out by Indecon economic consultants found that the main driver of house prices was the mismatch between supply and demand rather than the existence of the scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (24 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...illness 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 Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (24 Oct 2023)

Niall Collins: ...and those who are unemployed. To qualify for a training allowance while pursuing a Traineeship programme, a person must have been in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment. The Indecon Review of the Student Grant Scheme noted the range of student supports in the FET system, via the SUSI PLC grants for those on PLC courses and via the ETB training allowances based on a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...a lot of figures floating around. Many years ago, the Cassells report said that the higher education sector needed €1 billion extra. When I became Minister, we got the European Commission and Indecon to do an up-to-date report as to where we stood. The figure of €1 billion had become €307 million. It is a fact that we need to inject €307 million more into...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...one keeps doing this, then, as usual, I remind myself that I am earning a good salary, have a privilege, can use my voice, and I start to look at the reports. We have so many reports. We have had the Indecon report and we are all waiting for the report on the cost of disability payment. It is the most basic thing that should have been brought in with the budget but it was not brought...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: .... The Minister knows all the reports better than I do. We have quoted them here and the Government has utterly failed to bring in a disability payment, despite all the reports, including the INDECON report. I welcome that there is a follow up on the promise to reduce childcare costs. However, it is being done within a market model, which is the same market model that has got us into...

Seanad: Disability Allowance: Motion (11 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Tom Clonan: ..., non-means-tested payment. As the Minister herself rightly identifies, her own Department's cost-of-disability study identified an additional extra cost to disabled citizens of €9,000. The Indecon report, which was commissioned in 2019, not in 2020, and published in 2021, indicated that the additional cost was between €9,000 and €16,000. We appreciate the modest...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (5 Oct 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 that 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...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (5 Oct 2023)

Michael McGrath: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department of Finance published a report in December 2019 by Indecon Consulting on an Evaluation of the Concept of Community Banking in Ireland. This report followed a previous paper on Local Public Banking published by my Department in 2018. The Indecon report concluded that there is no business case for the State to establish a community banking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enhanced Transport and Mobility Support Options for People with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Seán Canney: ...them. Additional funds must be provided to people with disabilities so that they can access their houses. This comes back to another issue, although I may be wrong on this as well. The Indecon report found that every person with a disability faces additional living costs of €12,000 per annum. To spare us all of the strategies to try to make everything sustainable and whatever...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Indecon Cost of Disability report highlighted that there is not a single typical ‘cost of disability’; rather there is a spectrum from low additional costs to extremely high extra costs of disability, depending on the individual circumstances of the person concerned. It also highlighted that the cost of disability is significantly broader than the income support system and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (4 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, with regard to the Indecon report entitled Review of Certain Aspects of the Irish Horse Racing Industry, he will provide an update on the provision of a seat on Horse Sport Ireland for a northern representative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43016/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Sep 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Indecon Cost of Disability report highlighted that there is not a single typical ‘cost of disability’; rather there is a spectrum from low additional costs to extremely high extra costs of disability, depending on the individual circumstances of the person concerned. It also highlighted that the cost of disability is significantly broader than the income support system and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Seán Canney: ...be how we spend it. If one takes people with disabilities who have a particular additional cost of living with that disability, forgetting about the normal or abnormal cost-of-living increases, as the Indecon report has stated, is now not the time to put in place a payment for people with disabilities that will be there forever because the disability, unfortunately, will be there for as...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Reports (20 Sep 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Social and Research Institute €23,589.49 EPA Co-fund through the annual EPA Research Call. 25% Co-funded*. None, research ongoing. 2023 Report to establish current data availability and quality in respect of road freight (Commissioned September 2023) Indecon International Consulting ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (20 Sep 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...Report on Complementaries and Synergies Across EU Funds Gerry Finn €1,000 For internal use only – finalised June 2021 Research and Report Writing Services for the OGP on the operation of the roles of the Standing Conciliator and the Project Board Indecon International Consultants €159,008 For internal use – finalised December 2021...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (20 Sep 2023)

Norma Foley: ... Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools Run by Religious Orders* Not applicable** Ongoing Ongoing Due date is November 7 2023 N/A Cost Benefit Analysis for Review of the School Transport Scheme Indecon €49,775 (exc. VAT) Ongoing N/A N/A ...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Martin: ...x20ac;2,902.80 2020 ‘Tourism Recovery Plan 2020 – 2023’Research and analysis services to assist the Tourism Recovery Taskforce in the preparation of a Tourism Recovery Plan Indecon Economic Consultants Yes €92,543 2020 Participation in social and creative activities in Ireland among adults...