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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

..., trying to get that anecdotal base around the challenges their membership and sectors are facing. That would then feed to us in company law and our policy responses. In company law, we try to tap into those forums within the Department to make sure our policy is informed by the challenges we hear they are facing on the ground. However, actually collating the data is difficult. I would...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 561. To ask the Minister for Health to provide summary reports showing which nursing homes were claiming the TAPS scheme for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [20439/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ..., to avail of wind energy. The opportunity to harness this resource can have a positive impact on achieving our climate action goals. The committee has heard from both officials and stakeholders about tapping into Ireland's potential for offshore energy. As an island, we have plenty of coastline. We also have plenty of wind. Offshore wind farms will ensure Ireland has a secure, clean...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

...sluggish economy. Our party is taking its current approach to unification because we know that the region and its people are very limited by the framework under which we are operating. We want to tap into the more open and dynamic economy that exists on this island and one that is more fully integrated in the EU. As others have indicated, in the report the witnesses do not analyse the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...is not any user-friendly approach to help people remain in their own neighbourhoods and still right-size their properties. There is a bigger arena of potential in this than what is currently being tapped. That is my little rant for the day. Where is the bigger strategy that will actually start to shift the dial in key sectors? Will we see, particularly for food and construction, a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (30 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: ...have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas. My Department is preparing a comprehensive review of the pilot Caravan Loan Scheme upon conclusion of the 2023/2024 nationwide pilot. The review includes engagement with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (25 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I have spoken to them in my role as Minister for business about how they could contribute. We should tap into that resource. I know some of those involved well and they have a lot to offer. I agree with the Deputy. We are missing a trick in terms of the valuable resource that we have in our older generation. As he said, we need some way to activate them. I am happy to examine how we...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...of the low pressure that occurs when the well runs dry. I will give the committee an example of the last summer when the well ran dry for a number of weeks. Mayo County Council had installed a tap at Lisduff National School, which is approximately 1 km away. This meant the village had access to water but, unfortunately, this was a far cry from being able to stand under a shower in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mick Barry: ...a human right. It is a right that has been compromised for thousands of Cork city households. For the best part of two years now, brown and orange, dirty, discoloured water has poured from those taps. Eight days ago, the Tánaiste asked Uisce Éireann for a clear timeline for solving this problem. The public has heard from Uisce Éireann on a number of occasions in the past...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Emer Currie: ...imposition of stricter regulations on the marketing and accessibility of apps, it is fantastic that the Minister is doing that through the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act, but this is like a tap. We can deal with the impact of behaviour but we also need to look at switching off the tap, because if we do not switch off the tap by imposing a ban on ownership and regulations about the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...people I know. They hope their family members will be able to buy or rent close to them. They are hugely concerned, as are many others, that we will have landlords buying up properties in estates to tap into this lucrative opportunity, should it present itself. We need an assurance that IPAS and the Department are not aiming to make it their custom and practice to rent from the private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Kehoe: ...a big shortage of plumbers, electricians, carpenters, blocklayers and other tradespeople in the construction industry. We have a very significant number of migrants coming into Ireland. How do we tap into their potential? How can we offer apprenticeships and so on to them? I know there might be a language barrier or other issues but I believe those issues can be overcome. Does Mr....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: ...have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas. My Department ceased the practice of allocating specific budgets to individual local authorities and implemented a new allocation process following a review of arrangements for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

...Dr. Mitchell for her presentation and congratulate her on the book. It is really substantial and also a real pleasure to read. I found it a very uplifting book and it is notable that a lot of people are tapping into the new conversation about identities and the multitudes we are now allowed to have in Northern Ireland. People are also looking at the shifting constitutional conversation....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)

Lisa Chambers: ...Overall, the energy credits that were put in place by the Government have worked well in terms of offsetting a significant increase in energy costs mainly due to the war in Ukraine and Russia turning off the gas tap. There were genuine fears two years ago that we would not be able to keep the lights on. In light of the extraordinary circumstances the Government had to deal with, it did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I know. I am not talking about the Luas but Dublin Bus. In the old days, you would not get past the door without handing over your coins. Does it happen much that people do not tap or pay?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: We are told that we are living in the bright, shiny Ireland of the 2020s. Turn on many a tap in Cork city today and you might think that you had been transported back to the 1920s. Why? It is because of what is coming out of those taps. It is brown water, orange water, dirty and discoloured with sediment from the inside of water pipes that are more than 100 years old in some cases. I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: Action 107 of the Housing for All Action Plan Update and Q3 2023 Progress Report seeks to ensure that the mid-term reviews by local authorities of their Traveller Accommodation Programme (TAPs) are appropriately utilised to inform delivery to end 2024. My Department is committed to supporting the ambition of local authority TAPs and continues to liaise with local authorities on an ongoing...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Denis Naughten: ...70,000 MW of offshore renewable electricity. This is enough capacity to not only meet Ireland's long-term needs but those of France and Austria. It is a massive resource off our coast but we need to tap into it. The projections are that by 2037, offshore wind development could employ 5,400 people in the Atlantic region, with a financial dividend of €4.2 billion. We need to see...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Eamon Ryan: ...around biomethane which will bring huge revenues into the farming community. In the next month, we will introduce new renewable supports that will help the farming community, business and others tap into the solar revolution that is taking place in a way that is already accelerated but we are about to boost even further. These are the real things we can do in government. It is not...