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

Heather Humphreys: ...in pupils doing transition year, there has been an increase in the number of 18-year-olds still in secondary education. The extension of child benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education is a long-term change for the better and will support families across Ireland into the future. There is a significant change to the child benefit scheme. It requires technical and operational...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Pearse Doherty: ...the stand-alone and signature piece of legislation for us in this area. I make the point that we are on Report and Final Stages of this legislation which has been on the road for an unbelievably long time. The vast majority of it is really good but there are serious problems. We can fix the definitions but the other parts about the supports for local clubs and groups are more...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (24 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: Amendments Nos. 1 to 9 are technical amendments that relate to the Title and citation. The Long Title is changed to reflect the inclusion of the transfer of maritime area planning functions from the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, certain arrangements relating to the making of the marine planning policy...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: ...been sufficient fodder available in the country. That was a really important starting point that we found ourselves operating from, particularly in view of the exceptionally and unprecedentedly long winter that lasted from September up to now. Farmers did a great deal of hard work last year in terms of making sure that fodder stocks were strong. They were supported in this by the fodder...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (24 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...work the Government is doing to try to support the sector and farm families through this period. We are very aware of the acute challenges experienced by farmers right across the country due to the prolonged and exceptional wet weather conditions we have been going through. The past few months have been very challenging for farmers in all sectors. For livestock farmers, the high...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Griffin: ..., 297 of those workers would have been employees at the time they were dismissed. What steps is the Government taking to redress the rights of those employees? This matter has been going on for a long time but does not seem to be getting the attention it deserves in terms of the injustice done to these people and to the many hundreds of other workers at RTÉ who have fallen victim to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...rightly taking the issues being experienced by some of the Deputy's constituents and people in Cork regarding water quality. It also very much highlights an issue we have been trying to highlight for a very long time, namely the need for decent investment plans for water and water quality in this country. We have had those debates in the House previously. I will come back to the Deputy...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024) See 16 other results from this debate

Matt Shanahan: I am sharing time with Deputy Naughten, who will be along shortly. It is often said that you can judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable. That observation can also be applied to how a state treats those who provide care to its most vulnerable. One could say that we know the cost of everything and the value of very little. In her opening remarks, the Minister of State,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Policy (24 Apr 2024)

James Browne: ...our Romanian colleagues by the Department of Defence, in conjunction with the Defence Forces. Our agreement is an example of a shared commitment as member states to developing a positive relationship long into the future, while fully recognising the different national characteristics of both, in terms of national defence policy, and caveat it accordingly. This memorandum of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Funding (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the announcement of the minor works grants being processed and issuing to schools in the coming days. That is welcome as long as it happens. When this announcement was made initially, it was that they would be paid soon, so I welcome that the Minister of State said they will be processed in the coming days. I also welcome what was said on the ICT grants. I have been contacted by...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...doing that, and that if people caring for family members with disabilities raise their heads above the parapet, the might of the HSE will come down to cover its own back over the abject failure over a long period to deliver services to people. I have previously called for statements in the House on the delivery of services. Where are we with that delivery? We have held a couple of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Barry Ward: ...I have raised on a number of occasions in this Chamber is the lack of action by the Government and successive Governments with regard to the victims of thalidomide, who have been waiting a much longer time for real recognition by the State of the situation into which they were put. Now, we have a situation where fewer than 40 survivors remain. More importantly than that, however, their...

Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...was a time when people could just download the form but we want to move away from that because the current system is much more efficient. It is incredibly efficient. In some instances, there can be long waiting times for decisions in the WRC. Over the past year, people in my sphere have had to write to the director to ask where the decision is and state they have been waiting a long...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: Everybody is welcome. I thank the Minister for taking the time to attend. I appreciate that she is very busy at the moment so she is very good to come here. As long ago as 2010, the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Use published an article that said smartphone use and social media platforms - platforms, apps and games - were designed to be addictive, which is what is addressed in this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...Tuesday, 17 October 2023, unions reached an agreement on pay parity for section 39, section 56 and section 10 workers who are employed in community services. The agreement came about on foot of a long-running dispute relating to the pay they were receiving and the pay their counterparts directly employed by the State were receiving. A proposal was agreed acknowledging that the workers in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: ...be. It is important to emphasise that. I thank Deputy Gould for raising this issue. It is important that people do have access to services in a timely manner. SouthDoc is committed to the long-term continuation of its out-of-hours services in Cork city. I reiterate that there are no plans to close the Blackpool treatment centre. The Minister for Health has made it clear that he is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...to improving all the time. Sustainability is going to be the buzzword for all the rest of our business lives. It will impact everybody in this room and the generation behind us, if the world survives that long. The journey is critical and it is important that we educate businesses in this space. I will refer to our job across several areas. Ms Jamet can also come in on these aspects...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Simon Harris: ...We have assisted businesses in recent years to remain operating and to ensure our continuing competitiveness, innovativeness and resilience into the future. We are also taking significant steps to increase public capital investment, while establishing two longer-term funds to ensure our corporation tax receipts are available for future investment and to provide for the needs of future...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (24 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...at rectifying the significant deficit in order to meet the statutory Minimum Funding Standard (MFS) required by the Pensions Authority. The changes also aim to sustain the pension schemes into the long-term. Regarding the 1951 Scheme, CIÉ has prepared and submitted a draft SI to give effect to Labour Court recommendations for the 1951 Scheme, as passed by ballot of trade union...