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- 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: Sport and Recreational Development (10 Oct 2024)
Sport and Recreational Development
- 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: 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: 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
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (10 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise for my late entry. I assumed my matter was No. 4 but it is No. 1. I tabled this matter on the basis of a few experiences I have had in recent times. The first relates to a person who has serious health problems, who is not and will never be fit to work again. The person made an application for a disability allowance, which takes forever of course, as we all know. In the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta. I have a different topic. It is in the social protection area but it relates to obtaining payments. We can shoehorn it into what the Deputy has just said. I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. In my time I have not had any such experience. I have been fortunate in that we have had an excellent relationship with the...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. That concludes statements to mark World Mental Health Day: Making Mental Health a Priority for Everyone.
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (10 Oct 2024)
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Seanad Éireann has passed the Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024, without amendment.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Oct 2024)
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joe Flaherty - To discuss the inclusion of students who stammer in the reasonable accommodations at certificate examinations guidelines. Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh - To discuss the impact of the removal of hedgerows. Deputy...