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Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (28 Apr 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The number of Civil Servants in my Department who are in receipt of Long Service Increments is 1,626. An Officer may become eligible for a Long Service Increment after three years on the maximum point of the standard pay scale and thereafter for the award of a second Long Service Increment after a further three years. The difference between the total salary including Long Service Increments...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...and second, through Pathways to Work to ensure that as many of these new jobs and other vacancies that arise in our economy are filled by people taken from the Live Register, and in particular the long-term unemployed. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing long-term unemployment. For example, the most recent data from the Labour Force Survey shows that the rate of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...to some of these matters in the next round. In the meantime, I have another question. The Department is introducing the concept of future intentions. While social housing support is ultimately long term, there is currently no way of assessing, when somebody applies for social housing, what their long-term intentions are. In some senses, people's long-term intentions will in part be...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I take the Deputy's reference to "long Covid-19" to mean the medical condition whereby a person experiences long-term symptoms of Covid-19. My Department has continued to deliver on its full range of responsibilities throughout 2020 and into 2021, while working remotely for the most part. To date, any impacts of Covid or “Long Covid” have been met within the budgetary resources...

Transfer of Execution of Sentences Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (27 Oct 2005) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael McDowell: This was discussed on Committee Stage. It has been the style in this Legislature and its predecessor under the Irish Free State to set out a Long Title to every Bill. The Long Title is generally supposed to be a statement of the overall purpose of the legislation. Deputy Gerard Murphy is arguing for a different approach that gets rid of the Long Title completely and states the substance in a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Dr. Samuel McConkey: I think the question about long-term Covid symptoms was directed at me. I am probably a rather conservative, nerdy, scientific type of doctor and I like to see the evidence for long-term lung scarring, long-term brain effects, long-term cardiac, respiratory and other damage. We are running a study in Beaumont conducting long-term Covid follow-up of the several hundred...

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

Michael McDowell: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (20 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Government’s primary strategy to tackle unemployment – including long-term unemployment and youth unemployment – is twofold. The Action Plan for Jobs supports continuing strong economic recovery and employment growth. Policies and actions to ensure that unemployed people benefit from the increase in employment are set out in the strategy paper Pathways to Work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...Marie McKiernan, the registrar stated:What is striking from our engagements is that, with a small number of notable exceptions, we see little exploration as to how credit unions intend to leverage long term lending to drive future profitability ... Also, we have not received any specific proposal on changing long term lending limits at the sectorial level, or any proposed risk management...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (9 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: An application for long term residence from the person referred to by the Deputy was received on the 13th July 2006. 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...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (21 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: An application for long term residency from the person referred to by the Deputy was received on the 16th June 2006. 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...

Order of Business (27 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are three long-delayed Bills in the justice area. The Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill is a big issue for people who were convicted of very minor offences in their youth and who now face a barrier to employment. It has been delayed for far too long. The second Bill is mediation legislation, which will be very important with regard to family law. It would mean people would...

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (17 Jun 2009)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...by the Deputy in respect of non-navigable stretches of canals that are within the control of Waterways Ireland and are being or could be restored: Grand Canal · Kilbeggan Branch (8.2 miles long) in Co. Offaly and Co. Westmeath. · Part of Naas & Corbally Branch (Corbally Extension) (4.4 miles long) in Co. Kildare. · Barrow Line Part of Mountmellick Branch (0.25 miles long) in Co. Kildare...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Sep 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...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (9 Dec 2008) See 1 other result from this answer

Dermot Ahern: 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 work permit requirements. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (19 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the end of 2030, including a projected 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All sets out that there will a managed phasing out of new long term leasing projects over the lifetime of the plan, in favour of delivery models which ensure long-term ownership of social housing homes. This will be achieved by a renewed emphasis on...

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: It is not an issue of shame. All of us in Ireland and in this society should be ashamed that children have to wait such a prolonged period for operations. Sadly, this is a problem that exists for as long as I can remember. When I was a medical student, there were long waits for scoliosis surgery. I believe Deputy Micheál Martin was the Minister for Health and Children at that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (11 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: Based on EUROSTAT Labour Force Survey data, the number of Irish long-term unemployed was 80,000 in Q4 2016, as compared with 9,278,000 in the EU overall. The situation in Ireland has improved substantially both in absolute terms and relative to the EU average in the last few years. The number of long-term unemployed here peaked at 204,000 in Q1 2012 at a time when the EU number was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (17 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Government’s primary strategy to tackle unemployment – including long-term unemployment and youth unemployment – is twofold. The Action Plan for Jobs supports continuing strong economic recovery and employment growth. Policies and actions to ensure that unemployed people benefit from the increase in employment are set out in the strategy paper Pathways to Work...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (25 Nov 2008)

Dermot Ahern: 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...