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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)
Pauline Tully: The most recent HSE staff census and the work course review highlighted a staff vacancy rate of 34%, or 707 vacancies, in 2022. This is up substantially from a 28% vacancy rate, or 524 vacancies, in 2021. The 2023 figures are not in yet but from engagement with and listening to parents, it is highly likely this will show that the situation has not improved and has become even worse. In...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I want to raise the matter of childcare with the Taoiseach. As he knows, the workforce in the sector is 98% female. The sector has had a very hard time trying to be heard by the Government. Meaningful engagement has been lacking. I specifically want to refer to Shannon. Last year, I raised the imminent closure of one of only two childcare providers in Shannon. I said then that they...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I also want to raise the issue of childcare. I and a number of Deputies in the constituency of Cork North Central met Northside Community Enterprises in the past. We continue to liaise with it. The issue is that the old provider, the voluntary service, withdrew its childcare provision from four or five childcare services on the north side of Cork city. The old committee had run its...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)
Mick Barry: "Nothing about us without us" is the motto of the movement for disability rights. The Government's failure to respect this principle led to its decision to launch a Green Paper on disability reform without proper consultation. Its failure to respect that principle meant the Green Paper was doomed from the start. When the Taoiseach was elected, we were told it would open up a new era for...
- Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Is the Bill opposed?
- Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)
Emer Higgins: No.
- Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Member's time.
- Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)
Michael McNamara: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time".
- Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Motion (8 May 2024)
- Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Motion (8 May 2024)
Alan Dillon: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 16th April, 2024.
- Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Motion (8 May 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (8 May 2024)
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 29th March, 2023, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those set down to the Minister for Social Protection shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Health Minister for Agriculture, Food and...
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (8 May 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Message from Seanad (8 May 2024)
- Message from Seanad (8 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023, without amendment.
- Message from Select Committee (8 May 2024)
- Message from Select Committee (8 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024 and has made not amendments thereto.