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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (9 Jul 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate the response and her understanding of the issue. I also appreciate that she has given an undertaking to communicate to the Minister my frustration and the unfairness and mean-spiritedness I feel have taken place here. I will also, of course, do that myself. I raise a few points. My understanding is that the waiver applied to 2021 and 2022....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (9 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: To be clear, the temporary blanket waiver of pension abatement continued up until 31 March 2021. This was when the abatement policy for the healthcare sector returned to normal in line with other sectors. This was, as I understand it, communicated to the HSE on 15 January 2021. On 22 January 2021, only a few days later, I am informed that the HSE informed all relevant staff, including, but...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2024)
Mental Health Services
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: I first spoke on the issue of the community access support team in 2021, not long after it was announced that it was to be trialled in Limerick. I was told at the time that it was going to be operational in 2022. Unfortunately, this did not happen. My colleague Deputy Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, about it in 2022. He was also told that the community access support...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. Senior engineers with Kerry County Council, Tadhg Meehan, Paul Neary and Charlie O’Leary, technical engineers like Freddie Bartlett and Mike Downey, and several others have invested an awful lot of time trying to resolve this issue. When I hear the Minister of State saying that it is up to the local authorities to make up the shortfall, I...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: I thank the Deputy, on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, for his comments and his commitment to resolving these legacy issues with facilities built by developers to provide water services in housing estates. I acknowledge the hard work and the efforts of the engineers listed by the Deputy. The Minister introduced the multi-annual developer-provided water services infrastructure...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (9 Jul 2024)
Pension Provisions
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (9 Jul 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for being here to take this Topical Issue matter. It is a very important issue. I will outline what I feel is one of the most unfair and mean-spirited moves that has happened in my four and half years in the Dáil in terms of the State and its treatment of former healthcare workers. These people came back from retirement to answer Ireland's call during...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (9 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for raising this issue today, which I will take on behalf of the Minister for Health. As the Deputy has outlined, on 10 March 2020, the Department of Health informed the HSE that, following engagement with the then Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, approval was given under section 52(4) of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions)...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I would never question the Deputy's bona fides, as, I have no doubt, he would not question mine.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I acknowledge your bona fides.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I acknowledge yours.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Two honest brokers.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am doing my level best. At the end of the day, there is a working group. I met the group twice and am hoping to meet it again shortly with the Deputy and others. I am open to meeting any group but I inherited a situation where a working group was established that was multifactoral across the spectrum in the community. I want to work. The Deputy is correct: the M4 is the access point....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Most people believe the working group is a contradiction; it is not working.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)
Wastewater Treatment
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to raise with the Minister of State this evening the question of funding for two estates that lie together on the top Aghadoe - Birch Hill and Old Killarney Village. There is a problem with the sewerage systems, for which planning permission was granted. Kerry County Council has cited problems with this going back almost ten years. In 2020, funding was...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: I am taking this Topical Issue on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, who would like to thank the Deputy for raising this important issue and providing an opportunity to address the matter. As he knows, a small number of estates rely on developer-provided water services infrastructure, commonly referred to as DPI, for their water services. They mainly consist of wastewater...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (9 Jul 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Heritage Sites