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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: 114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a plan to expand to all employees the entitlements to flexible working and remote working contained in the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19218/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: 85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams available under his Department to assist with migrant integration; how much has been allocated under these funding streams this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19219/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: Most people in this House know that a very historic election is taking place in Limerick on 7 June. I must declare I am a candidate in that election, but I assure you, a Ceann Comhairle, that it is not the reason I am raising this particular issue. I refer to the election for a directly elected mayor, the first in Ireland's history, which will happen in Limerick. The Taoiseach and I...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: I move: That Dáil Éireann, in accordance with a Resolution of the Dáil of 22nd February, 2022, and the Order of the Dáil of 20th June, 2023, shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action entitled "Report on the examination of recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly report on biodiversity loss", copies of which were laid before...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: I agree with the previous speaker on the large-scale sport infrastructure fund. There is a question on that fund coming up and I would like to contribute on that as well, if I may. I reiterate the importance of the sports capital programme for our communities. If we were not investing as we are and have been over a number of years, that counterfactual scenario would not be very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for the work they are doing in the Department and the support they have given to clubs throughout the country in the past number of years. I expect that will continue. This is about more than sport and competition because every one of these clubs are so knitted into the fabric of our communities. They are so important in the co-benefits they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: 43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the latest round of the sports capital and equipment programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16693/24]

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: Enforcement is critically important. I agree with Deputy Tóibín. It has to be addressed. I welcome Commissioner Harris' recent initiative to increase enforcement on our roads. Others in this House talked about the Road Safety Authority and whether it is fit for purpose. I am inclined to think that as it is currently constituted, it is not. Its remit can certainly be looked...

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: I relayed this personal story to the Minister of State in the past. My family, like thousands of families, has been impacted by tragedy on our roads in the years and decades gone by. I never knew my grandfather on my mother's side. He was killed when cycling on Mulgrave Street in Limerick before I was born. I wish I had known him. He was by all accounts a good and impressive man....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: I congratulate the Taoiseach on his elevation to his office and wish him well in his time in that office. I also congratulate my county compatriot, Deputy O'Donovan, on his elevation to Minister. My question also relates to flooding in County Clare. I see Deputy Crowe has left the Chamber. It is about the flooding of the railway line between Galway and Limerick just south of Ennis at...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: I welcome this fund and the legislation being introduced in the House today that will underpin it. When it was announced in the budget in October, it was widely acclaimed in Ireland and internationally. When this Government's term is complete there will be a few things that we will see, in time, as the great legacies of this Government. One of them, in my very subjective but sincere view,...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (6 Mar 2024)

Brian Leddin: Ag an am seo gach bliain, cuirim romham cúpla rud a rá faoi Sheachtain na Gaeilge. Sna blianta roimhe seo, labhair mé go díreach ar ábhair a bhain leis an nGaeilge í féin, ach anuraidh bheartaigh mé cur síos a dhéanamh ar mo chuid oibre trí Ghaeilge. Is innealtóir mé a ceapadh mar chomhairleoir tar éis toghcháin don...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Brian Leddin: 47. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to outline the analysis her Department is conducting on investments made under the town and village renewal scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10456/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Brian Leddin: 60. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on developing town teams in Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10455/24]

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: From the Seanad (28 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: This is a very historic occasion. I commend the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, for his stewardship of the legislation in his tenure in this Department and also commend his predecessors, the Ministers of State, Deputy Peter Burke and, before him, Deputy John Paul Phelan, who I think was the real instigator of this legislation. This truly is a historic day in that Limerick alone decided...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: I will go to a subject the Minister knows very well and has been very positively engaged in, which is the huge retrofitting plan we have. He and his Department are playing a very important role in upskilling our workforce such that we have the capacity to retrofit up to 500,000 homes to B2 standard by 2030. As he knows, Limerick is at the forefront of this with the centre of excellence at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: 96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in light of her announcement that the free travel scheme is to be extended this July to people who have never been able to drive due to a disability, her views on the idea to expand the free travel scheme to the shared bike and e-bike schemes in towns and cities across the country to the same cohort; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when primary schools not included in the April 2024 hot meals scheme expansion will have an opportunity to formally express their interest in availing of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7862/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the concern raised in the recent ESRI report, The National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity, submitted to his Department to the effect that the eastern and midland region is experiencing a share of population growth beyond that envisaged in the context of the 2040 target; the steps his Department will take...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: This very much relates to my earlier question. I ask the Minister for his views on the concern raised in the recent ESRI report that was submitted to the Department, The National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity, which states that the eastern and midland region is experiencing a share of population growth beyond that envisaged in the context of the 2040 target. Perhaps the...