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Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We all need affordable childcare. We all acknowledge the burden that high fees for early learning and childcare places on families. It is vital that providers, parents, staff and all other stakeholders work together to ensure that the welcome increased investment in the sector of €221 million does not fall at the first hurdle and that similar funding is also provided in 2023. We know...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (5 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 109. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the progress she has made in delivering the Our Rural Future policy. [18044/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 116. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a timeline for when town regeneration officers will be appointed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18043/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. As a woman, I welcome the fact that the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health is a woman. That is very important. What is the status of the recruitment of psychology teams across the HSE? This is an issue that the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, have been working on and it comes across my desk regularly. Finally, what is the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I ask about the new mental health policy, Sharing the Vision, launched in June 2019. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has been doing much good work on this and launched the implementation plan last week. What is the status of the report of the specialist group on women’s mental health under the policy?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. It is good to see action aimed at increasing mental health supports in response to the Covid-19 pandemic but we know issues were already present. According to the statistics, work-related stress, depression or anxiety account for 44% of work-related sickness and 54% of work days are lost because of it. The number of women who experience mental health difficulties in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Independent and Adequate Standard of Living and Social Protection - Safeguarding: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We are all going to other meetings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Independent and Adequate Standard of Living and Social Protection - Safeguarding: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Independent and Adequate Standard of Living and Social Protection - Safeguarding: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: They are powerful. What has been said has been so truthful. All of us would recognise that from our own areas, where we come across these issues, so it is important that they are highlighted and that we do all we can. I had a few questions about recruitment but a lot of them have been answered. Where there is an issue with recruitment, there is a broken system. I know that everybody is...

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I too want to compliment the Irish people. They have shown so much generosity. I have received several phone calls about housing and people who are willing to take in families. Up to last night we have had 14,611 Ukrainians arrive in Ireland. In the last few days Carlow has had 49 arrive, including a baby and 21 families. I compliment the agencies such as the Carlow County Development...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic Violence (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions she will take to support the establishment of a women's refuge in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16234/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: All of us today have raised the issue of housing and the lack of supply. What is the update on the module building the Government is looking at? I heard the Taoiseach speak about HAP today. As the Taoiseach knows, if you qualify to go on the local authority housing list, you get HAP. I checked daft.iein Carlow recently. Five properties are available. By the way, it is €1,200 to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in implementing recommendations of the Report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Reform of the Family Law System; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16235/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the case of schools refusing enrolment access to student applicants, the correspondence should state clearly that they have been placed on a waiting list or that they may not be accepted at all, but in order to pursue a section 29 appeal, they must first ask the school to review its decision (details supplied); and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the situation of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if her Department will intervene to ensure that provision is made for such children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on services for families experiencing relationship and marital breakdown by Tusla between 2014 and 2021; the amounts as a percentage of the Tusla annual budget for each year; the way this compares with the proportion of annual budget spent on services for families experiencing relationship and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a contract for works on Leighlinbridge Garda station has been awarded by the Office of Public Works; if a date for when the rural station in County Carlow will be reopened is available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11270/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: This morning, unfortunately, I was not selected to speak to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, about the Passport Office. I have to raise it today because I have received several telephone calls about the telephone lines not being answered, the live chat and the emergency number and whether it is 24 hours. I am dealing with a case and I feel very sorry for the man concerned....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. I hear regularly from constituents who raise issues around affordability and availability of childcare and it is an issue that is becoming more pressing now. When we welcome so many young children to Ireland from the Ukraine, we also have to provide for them. It is very important that we address the affordability issue here. Many more childcare workers tell me of how...