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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I want to be very clear; we need a special school. We have all been contacted by parents who are having to fight for their children to get appropriate places, and I want to make it very clear that we are all on the same page. The compromise solution put forward by Belmayne Educate Together, which will see a special school housed temporarily in its permanent building, makes sense. Nobody...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a place in a designated special school will be secured for a person for September 2025 for (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16000/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing a fair deal scheme application for a person (details supplied); if she is aware that this delay resulted in the expiration of the ten weeks of approved transitional care funding, resulting in this applicant’s family receiving a bill for over €12,000 in costs thus far; if the Minister will ensure this fair...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I welcome the Bill. The move to address a long-standing inequality in the law is positive. It is a pity that it took a court case to force the Government to make these changes. I commend Mr. O'Meara on taking that case. The loss of a loved partner is the same if a partner is married or unmarried. The grief felt by the family is the same and therefore the rights and entitlements should be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that CIÉ pensioners have had no increase in their pensions since 2008; if he intends to engage with CIÉ or the CIÉ active retirement group on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14664/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the parents of a child (details supplied) who has additional needs but has been unable to secure an appropriate place in a secondary school for this coming September, despite extensive engagement with the National Council for Special Education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14710/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if maternity hospitals are now routinely checking for the condition vasa praevia during the 20 week fetal scan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14712/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: And Opposition.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I want to raise the issue of policing. In Dublin Bay North, we have a very fast-growing population and Garda resources are already stretched. In 2019, the then Minister for Justice had a photo op outside Coolock Garda station, during which he announced a new station that would be a regional headquarters and would cover Belmayne, Clongriffin and the surrounding areas. This population is...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: The housing and homelessness crisis has been getting worse under successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments, so this decision to further restrict the tenant in situ scheme, which has prevented so many people from becoming homeless, is bizarre. On top of these new restrictions, we also have delays on applications going back months because the Government could not get its act...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Sanctions (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the suspension of economic sanctions by the European Union on Syria is appropriate given the latest instances of appalling violence being carried out by Syrian government security forces and affiliated militias against men, women and children of minority communities in western Syria; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the correspondence or discussions he has had with representatives of the Republic of Lithuania in relation to that country’s formal withdrawal from the Convention on Cluster Munitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12479/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: United Nations (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 255. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail any instances in the past twenty years of a UN peacekeeping mission in which Ireland was to partake, being blocked or not proceeding due to a vote, or the use of a veto, at the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12308/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building (details supplied); the status of the appointment of a multi-disciplinary design team; the timeline for the overall project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the commitment in the Programme for Government that an independent assessment on the feasibility of removing the exclusion of drivers aged over 70 from the school transport scheme is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11824/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that a child (details supplied) has a place in an autism class or special school as soon as possible as recommended by their local children’s disability network team; the provisions being made to ensure children in the Balgriffin and Belmayne area of north Dublin will have access to a special school in the near future; when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 942. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the remediation scheme for fire safety defects in apartments and duplexes; when homeowners who already paid a fire remediation levy in respect of repairs to their own homes and complexes will see their remediation costs refunded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12262/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 1601. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reduce wait times for blood testing appointments at Beaumont Hospital; if it is possible to provide auxiliary capacity to reduce the waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11211/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (6 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Community Gardaí assigned to the DMR north district, per year from 2015 to date in 2025; and the breakdown of these Gardaí by station within the DMR north area, in tabular form. [10305/25]