Results 1-20 of 38 for land speaker:Anne Rabbitte

Did you mean: and speaker:410?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Postal Services (25 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...required to seek the approval of the relevant Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in advance of any material acquisition or disposal of land, buildings or other material assets proposed by a State body. An Post is aware of the requirement for compliance with the code of practice. An Post has indicated that the change in business...

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...will get past the Thursday evening slot and make it on to the Wednesday slot where we are prime central. We will be in the middle of the Topical Issue debate and not at the end of it. We will have really landed when we get a Tuesday slot, the premium slot. We are getting there, however, because at least I am in this Chamber on a regular basis where Deputies hold me to account. When...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...has been a high priority for Government. In recent years, one would be forgiven for thinking tonight that this Government has invested nothing since I took this office in 2020. In the budget that landed last week, €700 million has been invested into disability services. That sits solely and speaks solely to me. That is for complex disabilities. In 2023, for example,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Recreation Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...In addition, the Department asked the IFA to assist at a local level. Embracing Ireland’s Outdoors acknowledges the essential role landowners can play in facilitating permissive access to their lands while acknowledging that this goodwill and the legal rights of landowners must be respected by all recreational users. In the roll-out of the mountain access project and its...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rural Recreation Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for raising this matter. I am taking this on behalf of the Minister of State for Rural and Community Development. Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027, which was launched last November, was developed in collaboration with Comhairle na Tuaithe and is a collaborative, cross-government, stakeholder-led, strategy. It...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (13 Jun 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...engaged with a group water scheme (details supplied) along the N63 in Galway despite An Bord Pleanála sanctioning works and the CPO process commencing with no engagement or contact made with local land owners impacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28487/23]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Therapists should land in Carrigtwohill for the first time ever on 1 May. They will be accompanied by an OT, a physiotherapist and a speech and language therapist. Myself and the team here have met with Mr. Gloster with regard to whatever cannot be found or filled at that stage. We must have therapists in there. The plan is that on 1 May, therapists will be reinstated in the school. Going...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (8 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...of care under the insurance Action Plan Implementation Report; if there is an insurance facility for organisations such as bouncy castle operators and landowners who allow hill walkers on to their lands; how can a group or organisation make a case to be recognised under such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11750/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (15 Dec 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Development Act 2000 is to "ensure an adequate supply of housing for all sectors of the existing and future population". Accordingly, Part V allows local authorities to purchase a percentage of land, at less than the enhanced market value, and use it for social, affordable and cost rental housing. The Part V requirement is currently 20%, with no less than half of this to be used for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...practitioners, professional bodies and the public sector. The group, via a series of workshops in June, August and September 2022 discussed the interrelated issues of density, viability, land use, transportation, place-making and quality design. This included general discussion in regard to housing standards and the potential for new and more compact housing typologies seen in other...

Seanad: New Innovations for People with Disabilities (Digital Assistive Technology): Statements (22 Sep 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and surgical requirements. Before I get into this, I want to bring it back to why there is such a focus on assistive technologies. As I explained to the Senator before coming in, when Covid-19 landed in this country and people had to go back into their houses, they were very isolated. To be fair to family members and providers, they saw innovative ways of continuing with communication....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (30 Jun 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and the planned number of homes to be delivered in each year. The plans also include information on other delivery streams, including delivery by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency, LDA. All local authorities submitted initial housing delivery action plans to the Minister in December and there has been further engagement between local authorities...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: It is important we are having this debate today. Regardless of one's views, the development of a new national maternity hospital is a major milestone in the delivery of women's healthcare in Ireland. The women of Ireland deserve better, and we are finally getting it. I have not spoken on this topic too much to date. I have previously stated my concerns around how this project was...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Department of Health officials must appear and officials from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth must appear. They are watching me all the time for fear I land the other Department in trouble. I thank Sinn Féin for its support of the Bill. I agree that it is all about services and removing barriers. I certainly will not deny that and it must be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (2 Dec 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...with €88 million to provide two extra theatres and nine high-dependency beds. By having those sorts of beds, the hospital could become the centre of excellence for orthopaedic surgery not just in the Ireland East Hospital Group, but a centre of excellence in delivery for all of Ireland because we have some of the best physicians there. That also supports hospitals such as those at...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cúrsaí Gaeilge (30 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Authorities, in 2007, which addresses this mandatory objective under the Planning and Development Act. The guidelines refer to linguistic and cultural heritage and the needs of the community in land use terms for housing, community facilities, employment, tourism and design, including advertising and signage. Individual development plans may also oblige applicants for planning permission...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (15 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: ...committed to the roll out and the reconfiguration of the children's network disability teams. When I talk about the 91 network disability teams, this was already in progress. Unfortunately, Covid landed, but the commitment and enthusiasm for delivery was there. This has been borne out in how they have addressed putting a focus on the assessment of needs. I cannot thank them enough for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (10 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: ...standard operating procedure, or SOP, was to gather information so we could put people on different pathways. However, that only ever got off the ground for approximately six weeks because Covid landed. Again, I am seeking funding from the Minister for Health and am using that funding appropriately to address the backlog. As a new Minister of State in my portfolio, this has given me the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Compulsory Purchase Orders (3 Nov 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the person or body responsible for replacing wooden fencing on land that has been compulsorily purchased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33712/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (20 May 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 966. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when landowners that will be affected by the N5 national primary route between Ballaghaderreen and Scramoge road project and that have entered into purchase agreements can expect to receive payment for their land. [5559/20]