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Ceisteanna - Questions (26 Jun 2024)

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Legislative Programme

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the legislative programme. [26280/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 2. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the legislative programme. [26827/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 3. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the legislative programme. [26986/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together. The Government's legislative programme, which was published on 16 April 2024, sets out the Government's legislative priorities for the current parliamentary session. The current programme includes 53 Bills for priority publication and drafting across a number of areas, including healthcare, access to housing, stronger safer...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: As none of the Deputies who have tabled a question is here, we will move on to the next item of business.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I understand the point the Deputy is making. When people's houses are flooded, they want action immediately. I will raise this matter with the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, who has responsibility for the OPW. To be fair, there are a many reports and issues that have to be addressed as part of the process. This does take time. We often hear about a number of different schemes that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It cannot be 11 years.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: -----and ask him to come back to the Deputy with a response.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I regret that I must again raise an issue I have raised many times on Questions on Policy or Legislation. I refer to the issue of Travellers on halting sites living in substandard trailers or caravans. There is a very limited pilot scheme called the caravan loan scheme whereby local authorities are given an allocation of caravans every year for replacement purposes. That scheme only...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I do not have the relevant details here, so I will ask the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to respond to the Deputy directly. I take the point that there is no point in buying second-hand trailers. New trailers are needed. I will raise the matter with the Minister and ask him to reply to the Deputy directly. As the Deputy stated, he has raised this matter on a number of occasions. It...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: If a person has a derelict house, he or she will get a grant of €70,000 to put it back into commission. If a person has a vacant home, he or she will get a grant of €50,000. For an elderly person or a person with a disability living in the home, the maximum grant is €30,000. That is an unacceptably low figure and has not been raised for some years, even though the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Those grants are very useful to have houses adapted for people with disabilities who, perhaps, cannot use the upstairs of the house any longer. They are very popular grants. I am aware they are being looked at. I will raise the issue with the Minister of State, Deputy Alan Dillon, and ask him to come back to the Deputy directly with a response.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Claire Kerrane: The Family Resource Centres National Forum held its pre-budget briefing yesterday. I met with Louise from the Boyle Family Resource Centre at the briefing. From visiting the latter centre and the centres in Castlerea, Ballaghaderreen and Roscommon, I am aware that they provide so many supports and services that otherwise would not exist in those communities. These services include...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for the question. I am a fantastic advocate for family resource centres as well. They do phenomenal work the length and breadth of the country. As far as I understand, their funding comes from the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman and his Department. I have been engaging with him because we are hoping to do some projects...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: Friday next, 28 June is International Neonatal Screening Day. Can the Minister please provide an update on the roll-out of spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, in the national newborn blood spot screening programme, or the heel-prick test as we refer to it? Will she indicate when she expects the first baby to be tested in Ireland with this potentially devastating disease? The Minister for Health,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Since May 2022, babies are being screened for nine conditions, up from eight previously. Last year, the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, approved recommendations from the national screening advisory committee to add a further two new conditions to the programme. This would bring to 11 the number of conditions screened for as part of what is commonly known the heel-prick test in Ireland, which is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister for taking the question. On a similar theme, Members may be aware that I chair an informal all-party Oireachtas committee on rare diseases. We held one of our regular meetings yesterday. Ireland used to be a world leader in newborn blood screening, or the heel-prick test as Deputy Tully referred to it. Countries in eastern Europe seem to have leapfrogged us...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The advances in technology and the treatments for many of these conditions are continually emerging. This is very welcome and it is why the expansion of the newborn blood spot screening is a priority for this Government. Significant progress has been made over the past two years. We have gone from eight up to 11, but we acknowledge there is more to do. Les Martin and others have been...