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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Funding (11 Jul 2024)

School Funding

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Funding (11 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to increase core funding for primary schools and special schools to ensure that these schools meet their operational costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27214/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Funding (11 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: It is a simple enough question. Does the Minister for Education intend to increase core funding for primary schools and special schools to ensure they can meet operational costs?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Funding (11 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department’s voted estimate for capital and current expenditure for 2024 stands at €10.9 billion. This represents an increase of over €2.8 billion or 35% since 2019, which is significant. This is the third largest budget across government, and the largest ever investment in our schools. It indicates the strong commitment to investment in education by this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: We currently have €230 million transferred to the local authority sector and that will cover the first and second rounds. Once that is disbursed, there will be a small enough buffer left over and, at that stage, we will assess what we can do with it. My focus is that any money that is voted by this House in the budget will be spent by my Department this year, and I am very clear on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (11 Jul 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I would give a word of caution and perhaps a word of warning. As we came out of Covid, many businesses, particularly small and medium enterprises in retail and hospitality, became somewhat dependent on supports and this continued through the ICOB scheme. I am sure this has been fed into the budgeting process. It is critical that we have a commitment in the budget to ensure the supports...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: We will do our very best to have a strong budget for businesses. That is central to what we are doing in the Department. The benefits of our SME package are now being felt across the country. The reduced rate of PRSI will take effect from 1 October for workers on the national minimum wage. That process will be linked directly to the Low Pay Commission to ensure that minimum wage workers...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (11 Jul 2024)

Question No. 13 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

Renewable Energy Generation

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: 15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on developments pertaining to the Powering Prosperity strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30285/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: It seems the Opposition has abandoned the Dáil, which is strange. When we were in opposition, we never gave up and always had someone here. That is another story. With respect to Powering Prosperity, does he agree that it depends on infrastructure and on having ports with planning permission that are able to expand? That needs money. For example, the Port of Cork needs to expand...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

Dara Calleary: We have had a lot of discussion on Powering Prosperity to date and I welcome the Dáil’s interest in it. I acknowledge the Deputy’s work in this space through the joint Oireachtas committee. In terms of infrastructure, that is obviously a matter for the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, but we will continue to work closely with it to ensure that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Powering Prosperity is a fantastic policy document and I commended the Minister on it when he was before the Oireachtas committee last week, as well as the people who put it together. However, it is going to be diluted unless the port infrastructure is expanded. Without having a place to do a thing, you cannot do the thing. We cannot assemble the turbines, maintain them or service them if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

Dara Calleary: I endorse everything the Deputy has said with regard to the Port of Cork. It has applied for funding under the 2023 call on the EU's Connecting Europe Facility fund. The Department of Transport worked closely with it on that application. That would give it up to 30% of the cost of infrastructure investment works in this space. A decision on that will be announced this month. We will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for that positive response and encourage him to continue in that vein. Is he aware of the potential for the shared island fund to be used in conjunction with Cork and Belfast to maximise the development of infrastructure? Will he commit to going to the Department of the Taoiseach to support that initiative in order to maximise Powering Prosperity? This is what...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

Dara Calleary: I am more than happy to pursue this. The shared island fund has invested significantly in infrastructure. Indeed, I took part in an event with the Cork, Dublin and Belfast chambers of commerce a few weeks ago on the potential to develop all-island projects now that the institutions are up and running. That is definitely one I will pursue. I would also point out that the Port of Cork has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy David Stanton benefited from a mistake. I understand Deputy Flaherty was substituting for another Deputy on Question No. 14, so we will take that question now.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporate Governance (11 Jul 2024)

Corporate Governance

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporate Governance (11 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the work of the Corporate Enforcement Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30031/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporate Governance (11 Jul 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I ask the Minister to report on the work of the Corporate Enforcement Authority.