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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Budget 2024 (21 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...agreed by Government in the Medium Term Expenditure Strategy. This includes a significant increase in funding to ensure that the existing level of service (ELS) which is provided by the Child and Family Agency (Tusla), across Disability Services, early learning and childcare and youth services and other programme areas will continue to be provided. Government agreed a total...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: One size does not fit all. Whatever laws we make, we should not try to interfere with nature or natural law. We did not determine when or how we got here. No law should be made in the land that would decide at what point we exit it. I will give a few examples. All of you have similar ones. About ten years ago, there was a lovely lady and the story was bad. She was going to die in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Ms Finola Finnan: I thank the committee for the opportunity to speak about the situation in the Gaza Strip. As a sector, we are horrified and outraged by the continued escalation of violence across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and condemn the indiscriminate attacks, hostage taking and the killing of innocent civilians that have taken place during and since the Hamas...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and contributions. I commend the work that has gone into their campaign. The collection of the 15,000 signatures is extremely significant, as is the time they have spent on this matter, raising it as best they could. I have several points I wish to raise and then one or two questions, which I might just leave until the end. Between them, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...We are acutely aware of the impact that has but sometimes these services must be developed, as Mr. O'Regan said. They are not just off the shelf. The child's needs must be met in a particular way and we frequently have to procure a residential place, if required. Concerning ongoing work, we are working with our disability services, CAMHS and primary care teams to look at an integrated...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I also extend my welcome and that of the House to our distinguished guests. We are all looking forward to the tribute to William B. Yeats next Thursday. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his kind invitation. I listened to RTÉ Radio 1 over the weekend, when the day William B. Yeats heard the news that he was the winner of the Nobel Prize was discussed. He had been nominated a number of...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

...sure some of my colleagues will want to come in on this. Most services have a multiple of funding sources: the ECCE programme is one, the national childcare scheme is a second, core funding, AIM, and the soon-to-be equal participation model, EPM, but also many of the services are funded through parental fees. It is a combination of all of them. In 2018, we did an independent review of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Mapping Diversity, Negotiating Differences: Constitutional Discussions on a Shared Island: Discussion (9 Nov 2023)

Brendan Smith: Deputies O'Dowd and Tully and I represent Border counties, and while I will sometimes come across a woman who has given birth to a baby and works in Cavan, for example, I come across more queries from people in south Fermanagh who wonder why they cannot access oncology services in Cavan General Hospital and have to go to Belfast or Derry for some of those services. There is so much that could...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ..., he said it was not required to donate the items. However, we heard today that the French law was broken up into two sections. The first relates to essential items, which are hygiene products, baby food, nappies, children’s clothes and things like that. They are obliged to be donated under the French legislation. The reason other products, or non-essential items, were excluded...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will be aware that I have written to him and addressed him in the Chamber on the adverse situation of childcare provision in Cork city. I am sure that is also the case in other locations but it is certainly my experience in the Cork city area. Waiting lists can often run to a year or two years. There is nothing for children under one year of age. The baby rooms are gone at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank all who have given testimony this morning. Unfortunately, I had another committee meeting so I did not get to hear all the opening statements. However, I did have the opportunity to read them. When I came in, Ms Lazar was speaking about personal choice. I have a good friend, whom I met recently, and we discussed this. He is somebody who was very much against the repeal of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (26 Oct 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Echoing that sentiment, I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to address this important issue. I compliment the Ministers, Deputies Michael McGrath and Donohoe, and their ministerial team, including the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, on the work done on the budget. It was a momentous budget, one that was historic in many respects. It set the tone and template for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned the State apology to mothers and children who went through the mother and baby home institutions, but the fact is that approximately 24,000 people who went through those institutions as children were excluded from the redress scheme. The redress scheme is still not open for applications, which is pretty incredible given the age of many of these people. The exclusion...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (25 Oct 2023)

Mark Daly: ..., a cháirde.  I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator Lynn Boylan - The need for the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to make a statement on the recommendation of the Climate Change Advisory Council that the Gas Act be amended, if necessary, in line with the national policy on islanded...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This Commencement matter relates to the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023. I was hoping the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, would be here but, as I read the newspapers every day, I am aware he clearly has many pressing issues on his plate this morning. I understand and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...the success of many an Irish wedding by being left outside on the eve of the wedding in the hope of getting good weather for the photographs the following day, although I know of one unhappy Irish mother who in her pique at the bad weather left the infant child of Prague out for the whole week just to punish him in the elements subsequently. On a more sombre note, I attended a meeting of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ..., with particular relevance to County Carlow. We have an extensive school building programme under way throughout the country. More than €1 billion per year is spent on new schools, extensions and refurbishments. In my constituency last Friday I had the privilege to carry out the official opening of the new Pelletstown Educate Together National School. Anyone who has been in a...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...ridiculous. That is the reality for people I know. A man in his nineties was told that if he could not light the fire, that was too bad. The person who is going to help him get out of bed and get dressed in the morning cannot take an extra five minutes to come in and light the fire for him. That is not allowed. That is a ridiculous service and the Minister of State needs to recognise...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ..., I would like to sympathise with the families of the four young leaving certificate students from Clonmel. They were on their way to get a bus in Clonmel to celebrate their leaving certificate and met their untimely deaths. They were from the McSweeney, Murphy and Coffey families. It is so sad. I salute the Garda Síochána, the emergency services, all the other auxiliary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...in the Department of Education with responsibility for a number of areas, including the State’s response to residential institutional abuse. I am joined by Mr. Brian Power, principal officer, and Mr. Hugh Geoghegan, assistant principal officer, both of whom are from the Department’s residential institutions redress unit. The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, and the...