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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I think it is recognised that the Minister of State has been a great champion for women in sport of all types.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Thomas Byrne: My other half plays for the adult team of one of the clubs mentioned.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: You have no choice.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Thomas Byrne: We are in the run-up to an election. I hope the FAI, DDSL and the SFAI are listening. One issue has brought the Opposition and the Government together, speaking with one voice, which is girls' access to the DDSL. I hope the message goes out loud and clear that Dáil Éireann was united today and that every girl deserves a chance to participate. People in committees should not...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hedge Cutting (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is interesting to note what is omitted from the answer the Minister of State was given by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It talks about the size threshold for screening and chooses to neglect to mention that up to 500 m can be removed without any application for screening or any application to the Department. I also find interesting the figure of 11,000 km given for...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hedge Cutting (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: I assure the Deputy that the Department is very much committed to the protection of our hedgerows. It strengthened the level of protection they receive within the basic payment scheme. They are identified as landscape features, as I said. Hedgerows are protected under good agricultural environmental conditions standards, through cross-compliance, and further strengthened with the current...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Sport and Recreational Development
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Chris Andrews: I thank the Minister for coming in. Women's football is booming and has huge potential. The difficulty is the number of leagues for young girls to play in. These leagues are creating barriers for participation in football by young women. We cannot allow legacy issues around leagues and policies to deny girls opportunities to play sport and football. Sport for girls and everybody else is...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Denise Mitchell: It is important that the Football Association of Ireland, FAI, finds a solution to this. As Deputy Andrews said, 400 girls across Dublin and Meath have been left high and dry following the collapse of the Metropolitan Girls League. In my area, three clubs, St. Columbans SYC, Darndale FC and Artane Beaumont FC, have been directly impacted and dragged into this. At the end of the day, it is...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Paul Donnelly: In my area Tyrrelstown FC has been trying to resolve this issue for a number of weeks. Up to 50 girls are affected by this debacle. They have been offered the opportunity to play in the north Louth league. However, with a cost-of-living crisis how will teams travel up to Louth from Tyrrelstown every week? I heard today there is a possibility of the issue being resolved in January with a...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (10 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, which is exactly accurate. That is what the supplementary welfare payment is supposed to be. It is supposed to be a short-term interim payment while investigations are taking place. I was previously a Minister of State in that Department, so I am fairly familiar with it. I have never had that experience before either. Somebody obviously felt...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: That is a given. If somebody is in a vulnerable or emergency situation, payment can be made on the day. In 19% of cases, payment is made on the day. I genuinely assert that in my experience, the CWOs my office and I deal with have always been attuned to the urgency of any particular circumstance. I will ensure the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is aware of Deputy Durkan's contribution.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hedge Cutting (10 Oct 2024)
Hedge Cutting
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hedge Cutting (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Deputy Durkan for taking the Chair to facilitate me in speaking on this matter. We are into open season on hedgerows again with hedgerow trimming or cutting, however we want to term it. It is also about hedgerow removal, which obviously has far more long-term consequences and a greater environmental impact. During the closed season, the Department of agriculture engaged in a...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hedge Cutting (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: I am taking this on behalf of the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. The Minister believes that hedgerows are a significant component of the Irish landscape. We are fortunate in Ireland to have retained an extensive hedgerow network, with an estimated length of 689,000 km according to Teagasc research. As Deputy Ó Cathasaigh has said, hedgerows are multifunctional, acting not only as...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: The Minister tells me research is being conducted into the impact of paid sick leave. I could have saved the Department a fortune: the impact of paid sick leave being available to workers is that people who are sick can afford to not go to work. Hopefully they can afford to stay at home and get better and not bring whatever it is they have into their workplace and potentially infect other...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: Nobody is celebrating anything. I assure the Deputy that no official announcements have been made.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: That is not the case.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: The introduction of statutory sick leave marked a key policy development for this country. It was introduced by this Government. For the first time, employees have a statutory right to employer-paid sick leave. That was done without us having carried out any comprehensive analysis of the sick pay landscape in the country. The data being collected now will be valuable in bridging the gaps...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (10 Oct 2024)
Social Welfare Payments