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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Housing First approach to addressing homelessness places direct access to housing first and foremost for vulnerable individuals using homeless services consistently or intermittently over long periods of time, and those unable or resistant to accessing homeless services and who may then become habitual rough sleepers. These individuals often have complex high support needs such as mental...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (24 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...April 2019, State Pension (Contributory) applications are assessed under all possible methods with the most beneficial payment rate paid to the applicant. In January of this year I introduced the Long Term Carers Contributions which allowed for those who provided full time care to incapacitated individuals to receive reckonable contributions for the time spent giving that care, provided...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Apr 2024)

Robert Troy: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the resources available to people suffering from long-Covid. [18159/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (24 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...was undertaken by an independent assessor and the final report issued in January 2023. It was confirmed that medical laboratory scientists were performing the same duties as biochemists. This long-standing matter has now been resolved through the Labour Court, which examined all relevant issues including the review of the grades involved. The Labour Court determination was explicit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (24 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the cross-departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants. It set out to examine the challenges in frontline carer roles in the home support and long-term residential care sectors. The report was published on 15 October 2022: www.gov.ie/en/publication/492bc-report-of-the-strategic-work...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (24 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: This Government is committed to removing accommodation as a barrier to education. In November 2022, the Government approved the development of both a short and long term policy responses to increase the supply of student accommodation. In the short term, as part of this response, Government supported the activation of student accommodation projects in our Universities with planning...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regulatory Bodies (24 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 203. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is aware of the long delays in dealings with the Charities Regulator in instances where updating title to properties is under the remit of that office, such as properties being disposed of through diocesan trusts, which can result in ordinate delays in the sale and purchase of properties which are needed for domestic or...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

James Browne: ...persons with gender incongruence or dysphoria. It is not possible to pre-empt the outcome of this process by determining at this stage what this model of care will look like once developed. The long-term aim is to provide a wide range of services for all people with gender incongruence or dysphoria, from care locally in the community to more specialised and complex care. The Minister is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State for his response. All we need to know now is how soon he will meet the Attorney General and when we will know what the Attorney General has come up with and how long that is going to take. We are being asked every day for an update. Every day the water is rising. We are getting some little bit of relief now due to the rain not falling, but there it really...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: My concern is very simple. As they say in Irish, an rud a théann i bhfad, téann sé i bhfuaire. What goes on for a long time goes cold. We have an opportunity, if the opportunity is taken now. I appreciate that the delay is probably not on this side of the Irish Sea. The lack of an Executive was a challenge. I hope that when I ask this question the next time - if I get...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: ...authorities regarding the CCTV scheme that was rolled out recently, following the passage of legislation which enabled local authorities to actually get these schemes up and running. They are a long-required benefit to communities up and down the country to make people safer in their own communities.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (23 Apr 2024)

James Browne: ...threat there can be a temptation to carry knives. Incidents involving knives tend to increase this trend and there are certainly no quick-fix solutions to tackling this type of behaviour, which is long-standing over many generations. 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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the public spending code. Changes to the public sector spending code were announced early last year. It took until the end of the year before the infrastructure guidelines were published. How long will it be before we see the reforms adopted by the Departments? Most importantly, how will the Minister's Department measure the effectiveness of this change?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...of State. I appreciate that he is going to take a personal interest and is giving a commitment. However, there is flooding practically every year in Galway. That has been known about for a very long time. Following the mapping situation, we were into the action. The action was set out, as I said. I do not like repeating myself or wasting time, but this is extremely important for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Rose Conway-Walsh: There is no transparency around these contracts, even long after the deals have been signed, so we have to ask where the oversight and accountability are. When the Minister had this portfolio in 2017, the IMF recommended Ireland reduce the sums Departments could spend on PPP contracts. Departments are not supposed to spend more than 10% of the capital budget, as the Minister knows, on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The figure has increased, therefore, from €9.5 million to €50 million. Those 940 properties include the area in which I live, Claddagh, but also a lot of other areas such as Long Walk, Spanish Arch and the Eglington Canal. As long as I have been asking this question for the past two or three years, those projects have all been included. The Minister of State's predecessor,...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024) See 18 other results from this debate

Joan Collins: ...of those who lost loved ones. I welcome all those injured in the fire who carry the physical and mental pain of that night 43 years ago. I am glad the families and the parents have fought for so long and hard and never gave up. They have campaigned for truth and justice. They are here today having earned the rightful verdict of unlawful killing and this apology from the State so we can...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (23 Apr 2024)

Jerry Buttimer: ...of the unprecedented excessive rainfall in recent months and other climate change factors. Senator Fiona O'Loughlin - The need for the Minister for Justice to make a statement on her Department's long-term plans to support effective policing in Rathangan, County Kildare. Senator Micheál Carrigy - The need for the Minister for Education to make a statement on progress on the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Defence Forces (23 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in First Line Reserve, it is clear we need urgent action to bolster our Reserve. One of the biggest barriers to RDF recruitment is the time-consuming and cumbersome process that prospective recruits must go through. Recruits regularly face extensively long waits for medical and security clearances, discouraging many from considering a career in the Reserve or causing them to lose...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (23 Apr 2024)

Victor Boyhan: .... It is brilliant. Everyone talks about how positive it is and how it impacts and assists families who wish to see their children being nurtured in the community in which they live. In the long term, I would like to see the further expansion of early childhood care and education because it is the right way to proceed. The Government is to be commended on its work but today I want to...