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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In terms of those who have applied for NPIs, we expect them to be approved by the end of this year, so that farmers can do the work next year. The scheme has reopened for new NPIs. We expect those to be processed in a timely fashion now that the scheme is up and running.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: Does the Minister think it was fair to write to farmers demanding money back when they still did not know their score? That is one of the big gripes that many farmers have. They got the interim payment and the next contact they had from the Department was not to tell them where they stood or what the future would hold, but a letter demanding some of that money back - in some cases up to 80%...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: That is one of the challenges of a results-based scheme. I want to give farmers as much certainty as I possibly can in terms of the schemes I put in place. For example, with the suckler and calf schemes, I gave farmers a very clear task to carry out in order to get paid, whether it be weighing, clipping or dipping. We give as much certainty as we can. The environmental scheme must be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: What about the second year?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The score relates to the first year.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: We must move on.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As much as possible, I want it to be a positive experience. I am assessing the situation. I am open to all ideas as to how we can make sure ACRES works to the best extent possible for everyone.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Denise Mitchell: I thank Ms O'Shea. Last but not least, I call Mr. Chris McDonagh to make his opening statement on behalf of the Traveller Mediation Service.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Denise Mitchell: I welcome the witnesses. I have had the honour of being in the company of some mighty women in our visits to prisons. From what the witnesses said, there is one worker in Barnardos who is part-time and there is a massive service. Will the witnesses talk us through the supports available to someone in pre-sentencing who came to Barnardos? How is Barnardos managing? What are the hours for...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Denise Mitchell: Ms Sweeney said something that struck me and I am still trying to get my head around it. It was about the one-minute call someone gets with their child. They are worried about their child; they need to reassure their child that they are okay and they need to know their child is okay. Will Ms Sweeney comment on that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Denise Mitchell: That is it in a nutshell.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Denise Mitchell: Ms Brady mentioned Tusla. What response has she got? Has that advanced any further?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Denise Mitchell: I have one final question for Ms Costello. I am interested to hear about the positive engagement she had with the Judiciary. Have there been any follow-up actions?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I was at a social welfare committee meeting before I came in here. That is why I was delayed. Many issues have been covered. The key issue has just been touched on again, and that is why all these people are in prison and whether prison is something we inherited and just continue or whether it is actually delivering what it is meant to deliver. As far as I am...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Following on from that, I put in a parliamentary question. Over two years, there are 20-odd, but without knowing the circumstances, you cannot really give a judgment when the numbers get that small. Because of other work I do with prisoners, one of the other things I was interested in was how that compared to remands and bails in the North of Ireland, where bail conditions can be very...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, that is a problem.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A figure of €300,000 was mentioned earlier for a programme. If the approach we take is that we have to build another 40 places for female prisoners and then another 40 and so on, it will cost a fortune to provide a solution that is actually the problem, not the solution.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As an aside, during the 1990s, I used to visit republican prisoners in prisons in England. I would often engage with the governors about things outside of the immediate issue I was there for. They told me that longer sentences were not producing better results and there were more people in prison. They had the exact same syndrome going on with more people in prison and longer sentences....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Alan Farrell: I welcome the discussion and I very much welcome the investment in people and places. It is very important that we diversify the option for the purposes of ensuring in the first instance that we can keep people out of tents in the city centre. That is an objective I think we all share in this House. I make the point to Deputy O'Callaghan that one does not necessarily need to be the local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the previous Deputy just mentioned, we have joined the EU migration pact and, obviously, there is a significant amount of planning under way to make sure we are ready to fully join the pact within the two-year timeframe when it becomes operational. As part of that, we are exploring, as we have been doing and investing in recent years, new and innovative ways in which we can expand our...