Results 81-100 of 1,052,536 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Michael McGrath OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Simon Harris OR speaker:Johnny Guirke OR speaker:Thomas Pringle OR speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire OR speaker:James Browne OR speaker:Pauline Tully)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have not seen the report.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I know the Minister has not seen it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am glad the Deputy has raised it. I will review the report and revert to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: While it is within the remit of the Minister, I wish to raise school transport. It is a huge scheme every year, with 163,000 children availing of it. Properly functioning school transport is an absolute necessity for access to school, to allow people to go to work and for climate change. August and September are a nightmare every year all over the country. The emails I have received, as...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is an invaluable service. All of us have been aware of certain issues as the scheme has grown. I have dealt with them in my own constituency in Dublin Fingal as well. It is important to know the Minister, Deputy Foley, has been actively engaged and involved in this. Since 2018, there has been a 38% increase in the number of pupils being provided with school transport. The cost of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

David Stanton: A boil water notice has been in place in my area for the past eight years affecting 9,000 customers. It appears to be costing approximately €500 per year. In the UK, families are now compensated when boil water notices are put in place. Will the Minister give consideration to doing this in this country, particularly for the 9,000 customers who are suffering under this notice for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is something I have in mind. We reduced the number of boil water notices in areas that had been under boil water notices in recent years but there are some areas, like the area to which the Deputy refers, which have been under these restrictions. They are a very serious imposition on people and households in that regard. It is costly and it costs business. At the moment, I am...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: I congratulate the Minister on the work he and his Department are doing in housing in the country and in reaching targets we have set in the programme for Government. However, as the State is due to receive more than €14 billion in unpaid tax from Apple, and as discussions are going on with where to invest these funds, we can all agree in the Chamber that it is imperative that some of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for his kind words and for all the work he has been engaged with in the past four years in the Oireachtas joint committee and as a colleague of mine in implementing Government housing policy. We have been able to make progress. We still have a lot of work to do and challenges remain. The Deputy has seen from the three party leaders that in relation to any additional...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Just 1,300 payments have been made or are in the process of being made under the mother and baby homes redress scheme. That is out of 34,000 people who are eligible, not to mention the 24,000 who have been left out of the scheme. Today, I was made aware of a 91-year-old woman who is still waiting. She applied in March. The scheme has been open for six months. Older people were supposed...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for raising this really important issue. The Government has brought forward the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, and rightly so. Applications opened in March. As of 16 September, 5,100 applications had come into the scheme, of which 4,400 were fully completed and have proceeded into the processing system. Approximately 2,700 notices of determination have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Dessie Ellis: The Government pledged that children who have a diagnosis of autism and who require either a special class or a special school placement to meet their assessed needs will get those places. Despite the child being in primary school for many years, it should come as no surprise to the Government the child will then progress to secondary school. Yet, each year parents face a last-minute...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Staff the planning departments.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----in streamlining our planning system. In many instances, though not all, cost overruns are caused by delays in planning or objections. We cannot continue to see that if we need to deliver, which we do, significant infrastructural projects like, as the Deputy mentioned, metro north and others. We need a planning system and planning legislation that underpins that, so I-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Not even a planning application has gone in in Midleton.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It probably would be objected to.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is reported today that the Government will finally consider asking asylum seekers who are working to make a contribution towards the costs of their accommodation, food, energy and Wi-Fi bills. These are things that every other worker has to pay for out of their wages, and the fact that the Government has not introduced charges for these things for those working asylum seekers who can...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The ARP scheme is being reviewed in the context of the extension of the directive. The operation of that scheme is being reviewed. We do not want to see a situation whereby properties that were previously in a rental market - and that is being looked at-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Which is happening, and the Government parties refused to deal with this when we told them.