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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a form of social housing support available for people who have a long-term housing need. Any household assessed as eligible for social housing is immediately eligible for HAP. Eligible households can source their own accommodation in the private rental sector which should be within the HAP rent limits provided to them by the local authority. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (23 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ..., and in the EPA Report on Urban Wastewater in Ireland which is published annually. The most recent report relates to the year 2022, and is available at www.epa.ie. Uisce Éireann continues to develop and implement a long-term investment perspective in order to strategically address the deficiencies in the public water and waste water system. Building water and waste water...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Equity Loan (CREL), and by the Land Development Agency. The core principle of Cost Rental is that the rents cover the development, management, and maintenance costs of the homes, so that the long-term future of the homes is financially secure, but that rents are not subject to the pressures of the open market. Rents will increase only in line with general consumer inflation, remaining...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...and assessed according to a standard Household Means Policy (HMP). It was revised in March 2021 and comprehensive guidance was provided to local authorities at the time. Social housing is a long-term support intended to support households that have continuing, long-term difficulty meeting their own accommodation needs. This is reflected in the underpinning legislation and the HMP...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022-2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). Under Housing for All, there is provision for 200 social housing acquisitions each...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...Department are not intended to cover circumstances where another Government Department or Agency has the primary responsibility. The responsibility for the provision of rent support to those with a long-term housing need has transferred from the Department of Social Protection to the local authorities. Persons with a long-term housing need should contact their local authority where...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (23 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...need to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Question process. The Deputy may consider using the email service except in cases where the response is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (23 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Question process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in the cases where the response is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (23 Apr 2024)

James Browne: There are many complex and interlinked reasons for the use of knives in the commission of offences. Long term, evidence-based strategies and local interventions by trusted youth workers are most effective as part of a wider strategic response to the types of crime in which knives are a feature, including anti-social behaviour, street violence, youth offending and domestic violence. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (23 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Question process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in the cases where the response is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (23 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: .... The Temporary Protection Certificate (TPC) issued to all Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BoTP) is a temporary permission to remain in Ireland and is renewable on an annual basis, as long as the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) remains in force. Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection are granted access to the labour market and to Government supports, as required under the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...by tillage growers. As well as this engagement, I personally am in contact with the farm organisations directly myself by phone, at meetings and other events regularly and this will continue as long as I am Minister . I am acutely aware of the challenges being experienced by growers due to the exceptional weather conditions. The past few months have been very challenging for tillage...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (23 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Disorder (FASD) is a prevalent, yet preventable neuro-developmental issue. Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is caused by prenatal alcohol exposure and is associated with a range of lifelong physical, mental, educational, social, and behavioural difficulties. The most recent available figures from the HSE, estimate the prevalence of FASD in Ireland is between 2.8 and 7.4% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (23 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the long time it is taking for a non-verbal child (details supplied) to receive an assessment of needs. [17600/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application for long-term residential care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17640/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (23 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 569. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address the shortages in childcare staff in the short and long term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17982/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: It is acknowledged that many patients still must wait too long for hospital appointments and treatments. As part of the multi-annual approach to reducing waiting lists, and just as importantly the length of time that patients are waiting, I published the 2024 Waiting List Action Plan on 27th March. Total funding of €360 million has been provided for the plan this year which sets...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) works with public hospitals, as opposed to with patients directly, to offer and provide the funding for treatment to clinically suitable long waiting patients who are on an Inpatient/Day case or Outpatient waiting list. The key criteria of the NTPF is the prioritisation of the longest waiting patients first. While the NTPF identifies patients...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: The Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS), commonly referred to as Fair Deal, is a system of financial support for people who require long-term residential care. Participants contribute to the cost of their care according to their means while the State pays the balance of the cost. The NHSS covers the cost of the standard components of long-term residential care which are: * Nursing and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 624. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what engagement has taken place with other Departments to discuss supports that can be made available to healthcare workers with long- Covid who are unable to return to employment; if discussion has taken place with the Department of Public Expenditure National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to extend the special scheme while new supports...