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Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...than sometimes we acknowledge in this House or in society generally. It is worthy of consideration. I think the debate centred on the recognition that there is a loss here. It is a particular type of loss and it can be a very challenging time. It is something we can consider as this legislation passes along. The legislation contains updating of references in the Act on a variety of...

Health (Waiting Lists) Bill 2024: First Stage (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Ward: ...be able to avail of private treatment for their children at the State's expense. Parents of children with disabilities who are waiting for assessments of need currently face extraordinarily long waiting times. While waiting for these assessments, children are often failing to reach their developmental milestones. Some parents get private assessments, often at great personal expense. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...accounts for 5% of our global emissions. Half of compostable waste does not find its way to compostable outlets. Excess packaging in the sector accounts for two thirds of all plastic packaging. Long-distance imports are a feature. Premium payments are not adequate for people producing sustainably. There is significant opportunity in this sector to have a better strategy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: ...the Deputy for raising this issue. It has been a challenging spring for all farming sectors. That has come on the back of a very difficult autumn last year. We have just come out of one of the longest and most unprecedented wintering periods we have seen for a long time, lasting almost seven months from last September until now, in many instances. That has made it very difficult for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...almost all female farmers. We have to be careful that it is not subject to abuse with people saying that they are female farmers when they are not in fact one of the primary people who exercise long-term control over the farm itself. That is why the eligibility criteria are there in the first place. It is good that female farmers are engaging with it. The three tranches have shown a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Richard Bruton: First, I welcome what the Minister of State has said, but so long as there is no clear picture of what a revenue stream from sound environmental farming will mean in ten or 20 years' time, this uncertainty and unease will continue. We know, for example, that raising water levels on certain lands has huge carbon dividends. We know that benchmarking and reducing emissions by sequestration or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...for UK-registered vessels, similar to other piers and harbours in the county. This is something that would be transformative for the area and which the local community and businesses have sought for a long time due to the implications of Brexit. It is absolutely necessary, particularly for younger fishermen who have used that pier forever, and now because of the insistence on not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister about the long-awaited scheme for the group known as the forgotten farmers. In our last round of questions back in February, the Minister advised that his Department was looking at establishing a system, but there is still no detail about what that scheme would look like. I have met with farmers who are part of this cohort known as the forgotten farmers. They are really...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I accept people’s frustration. They have been waiting a long time, but it is important that we get this right. This is not just a decision for me to make in my Department. Rather, it requires engagement across the Government, in particular with the Department of public expenditure. ...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fodder Crisis (25 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...out and given them any support. Looking at them, with the number of regulations from the EU and even the local county council, the money they are getting from grants has not been increased for a long time. They are looking for a bit of help to help put food on the table. Will the Minister reinstate it or not?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ..., it was really important, given the pressure the sector was under, to provide clarity on what support would be forthcoming from the Government. I have been engaging on an ongoing basis this very long spring with all farm representative organisations, and also those in the tillage sector. I was very aware of the growing pressure on the sector and the need for intervention in advance of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...distant from the labour market. There is a plethora of other initiatives that help people to get back into the labour force. The Department makes a number of grants available to people who are long-term unemployed, or to employers, to help them to get back to work. I refer to the EmployAbility programme, the local area employment services and a number of different programmes. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...medical information is not put down. It is on the provision of further medical information that the payment is granted. We have done a lot for carers. A pension scheme has been introduced for long-term carers. The carer's support grant has been increased to its highest ever level. The weekly carer's payment has been increased by €29 in the past three years. Carers were...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: .... There are too many different payments trying to do the same thing, whether it is disability allowance, invalidity pension, blind pension or partial capacity benefit. Sometimes people are on long-term illness benefit. For children there is domiciliary care allowance. The Green Paper, in fairness, was trying to put a more unified and coherent approach to this so that everybody would...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (25 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...to the Deputy, is a matter for the Minister for Justice. She is discussing that and we will decide that as part of an EU response. I have already signalled that I do not think it is sustainable long-term that people would get their accommodation provided for and receive full social welfare payments. We will look at that. It is not a decision I can make on my own. There have to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...to an identifiable person or entity, they will be directed to discontinue their remarks. It is imperative that they comply with any such direction. Members and witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against any person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

.... Seamus McCarthy: Yes. It was an accounting issue about the valuation of canals. It changed the way it was accounting for the canals in the 2021 financial statements. Effectively, there was a long delay while that whole process was being worked out and it delayed the completion of the 2021 audit, but it was resolved in 2021. There was no matter carrying forward to 2022.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens Information Services (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...in recent times. It is not attracting people and it is easy to understand that. Previously, there would have been more than 200 applications for positions. Now, there is only a handful. Four long-serving staff members have recently left the national phone service in the past nine months. My understanding is that the employers group and the trade unions agreed a pay claim, brought it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...to how we would distinguish between people with significant challenges, attracting the higher level of payment, and other people with disabilities. Concerns were also raised about reforming the structure of long-term disability payments separately from a wider consideration of the other issues including access to education, transport and health. Our new Taoiseach has placed a major...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...game-changer. I was delighted to hear the Minister’s facts and figures about how it has benefited children, how children are going to school and how the programme makes a difference. There is a long-term effect for communities. It is also helping many caterers to create jobs. The standard is absolutely excellent. It has a knock-on effect for communities particularly in rural...