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Local Government (Charges) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2009)

John Gormley: The Deputy and I discussed the matter outside. Originally the wording was permanent, which was not flexible enough. On the meaning of "long term", someone who is residing in a nursing home is often regarded as someone having long-term incapacity and that is the best way to describe it. This is a description that has been used in other legislation so we were of the view that "long term" was...

Hospital Services. (29 Apr 2010)

Seán Connick: ...The scheme commenced on 27 October 2009 and the HSE is now processing applications. The scheme was introduced in order to address the fundamental inequity in the treatment of public and private long-term nursing home residents and in order to alleviate the financial hardship being experienced by long-term residents in private nursing homes. Prior to the introduction of the scheme, many...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (24 Sep 2008)

Dermot Ahern: ...they may also apply to be exempt from employment permit requirements. The dependants of the aforementioned, who have been legally resident in the State for over five years may also apply for long term residency. This particular long term permission does not grant an exemption from employment permit requirements to any such dependants. Time spent in the State on student conditions cannot be...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 Nov 2008)

Martin Cullen: The average sick absences in the Department, including the National Archives, over the last two years are as follows: 2006: 6.75 days; 2007: 9.88 days. The calculations include a small number of long-term sick absences that serve to inflate the figures somewhat. The data in respect of the previous three years is not readily available due to major restructuring of the Department in May 2005...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Permanent TSB offers interest-only solutions as a short-term option but not as a long-term option. One of the parties who came before the committee at a previous hearing put it to us that there was nothing unsustainable about offering a long-term interest-only option in a positive equity situation where the bank experienced no risk. Why does Permanent TSB not offer a long-term interest-only...

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (26 Jan 2011)

Richard Bruton: Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children in view of her decision to exempt persons who hold long-term illness cards from the prescription fee, if she will make arrangements that persons who hold both medical cards and long-term illness cards, who are now being forced to acquire their long-term medication under the general medical service scheme, should continue...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I raise the special leave with pay scheme for workers who are out sick with long Covid. Healthcare workers in particular have had long periods of illness from Covid, and a scheme was put in place in June 2022 to ensure they would get paid if they were out sick with long Covid. That is due to end on 30 June. Therefore, from 1 July, potentially hundreds of health workers who stepped up to...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether costs of between €18,000 and €28,000 per unit per year for 25-year long-term leases represent value for money for the taxpayer in view of the rising cost of long-term leasing and Part V long-term leasing and given that building or buying social homes by local authorities and approved housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, hold on. As a matter of long-standing principle, we have a separation of powers. The separation of powers means that in this House, we do not criticise or comment on affairs before the courts. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, is independent. Its actions and decisions may not be commented on in this House. That is in accordance with the long-established...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll: Some of the properties have been under licence for a long time, mainly to public bodies. Essentially, they come to the same thing. They are long-term formal arrangements. One of the difficulties we have had, which has been aired previously at this committee, is that some of the properties have been rented out for a long period but without formal lease. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Skills Development (20 Nov 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: In the first instance, the Government’s primary strategy to tackle long-term unemployment is to create the environment for a strong economic recovery by promoting competitiveness and productivity. Economic recovery will underpin jobs growth. However, the Government also recognises the need for additional measures in the interim while the economy recovers. This is the rationale behind...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are 48,000 homes vacant between the two censuses. They should be getting charged the tax. I wish to ask the Taoiseach about long-term leasing deals. A US investor has paid €75 million to buy up a Dublin social housing portfolio consisting of 156 apartments. That is almost €500,000 for each apartment. Investors are willing to shell out such huge sums as the State...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (19 Jun 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: Government policy in relation to older people is to support people to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. Where this is not feasible, the health service supports access to quality long-term residential care. While reiterating this Government's commitment to the future public provision of residential care for older people, we must also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (19 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...to enhance the employability and mobility of disadvantaged and unemployed persons by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities. In addition, it helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine. One of the Government’s primary strategies is...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (7 Nov 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Long term residency was introduced by way of an administrative scheme in May 2004. The position in relation to granting long term residency is as follows: Persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit/work authorisation/work visa conditions may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (20 Nov 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position in relation to granting long term residency is as follows: Persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit/work authorisation/work visa conditions may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In that context they may also apply to be exempt from employment permit requirements. The...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Ms Marie Hunt: The point I was making is as follows. When one invests in commercial real estate one must be prepared for the long-haul. It is not something one invests in only to divest in two or three years but over the long-term property performs well. The difficulty we had in the Irish scenario is that the banks were funding on a short-term basis to effectively fund a long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Mar 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...recommended isolation period (currently 7 days), for civil and public servants nationally who contract Covid. For certain employees who remain unfit to attend the workplace and are suffering from long-Covid, a temporary Scheme, specific to the public health service was introduced to provide for Paid Leave for Public Health Service Employees unfit for work post Covid infection. Employees...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I can confirm to the Deputy that representations on behalf of Long Covid Ireland were received and responded to by my Department in September 2021, April 2022 and most recently, last month. As previously indicated, I have responded directly to the most recent request from Long Covid Ireland. The HSE continues to implement the interim Model of Care to provide Long COVID services nationally...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...low point of 2012.  Secondly, through the  Pathways To Work strategy, my Department ensures that as many new jobs as possible are filled by people taken from the live register, particularly the long-term unemployed. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing long-term unemployment.  For example, most recent data from the Labour Force Survey shows that...