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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I will deal with Deputy Tully's question later. I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire for raising this matter. I am committed to addressing the cost of disability and improving outcomes for people with a disability. I announced a number of measures to support people with disabilities in budget 2024, including a €400 lump-sum payment in November, a Christmas bonus double payment in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The question still arises as to what happens next. The Indecon cost of disability report rightly indicated that different people have different costs of disability and that people with higher costs relating to their disability should receive greater support. There were a number of problems with the Green Paper. One was that it conflated severity of disability with the higher cost of...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Heather Humphreys: One of the main findings of the cost of disability report was that there is a broad spectrum of disabilities. We all recognise that some people need more support than others. We all recognise that. There are some people with moderate disabilities who are able to work and some with profound disabilities who we know will never be able to work. That is the reality. The Cost of Disability...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: As there is still no one here for Priority Questions, I will go to Deputy Cannon's next question and then I will go to Deputy Murnane O'Connor. If those who tabled Priority Questions arrive, I will go back and take those questions.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)
Social Welfare Eligibility
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: 12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when people with epilepsy can apply for the free travel pass; if she will outline the process for applying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18168/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: The Irish Epilepsy Association has consistently advocated for the provision of the free travel pass to people with epilepsy who have been deemed ineligible to drive. The Minister has responded very generously to that request and now proposes to make the free travel pass available to people with epilepsy. Will she outline the details of the scheme and particularly how the application process...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. There are over 1 million customers with direct eligibility. The estimated expenditure on free travel for 2024 is €103.5 million. As part of budget 2024, I was particularly pleased to extend access to free...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024)
School Meals Programme
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has measured the progress and success of the school meals programme in the context of diet, attendance and educational attainment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18078/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024)
Alan Farrell: 15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the hot school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17836/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Has the Department measured the progress and success of the schools meal programme in the context of diet, attendance and educational means?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I propose to take questions Nos 9 and 15 together. The objective of the school meals programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering 443,000 children are now eligible for funding. I recently...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. I strongly agree with her about the hot school meals programme. It is absolutely excellent not only for DEIS schools but for every school included in the programme. The Minister announced hot meals for an additional 900 primary schools. Ten of those schools are in Carlow. These are schools that I had been working with. They are rural schools. For all the schools...
- Prelude (25 Apr 2024)
- Prelude (25 Apr 2024)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 09:00
- Prelude (25 Apr 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (25 Apr 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Teachtaireacht ó Roghchoiste - Message from Select Committee (25 Apr 2024)
- Teachtaireacht ó Roghchoiste - Message from Select Committee (25 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its estimation of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2024: Votes Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. I have read that out as slowly as I could to give people a chance to come in.