Results 921-940 of 2,149 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 843. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the 2001 Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Childcare Facilities in order to address gaps in the guidelines which are leaving communities without adequate access to childcare; his views on the effectiveness of the current benchmark of 20 childcare places per 75 dwellings; if he has engaged with the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 844. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if each of the developments being progressed by the Land Development Agency include the provision of childcare facilities; if the Land Development Agency has engaged with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality with regard to the delivery of childcare facilities on public land; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 936. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide the number of recipients of child benefit in an area (details provided) from 2020 to present, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30136/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 938. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider ensuring that people with intellectual disabilities and autism retain their free travel pass permanently upon taking up employment, regardless of changes in their disability payment status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30163/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review and increase the earnings disregards for disability allowance, with a view to permanently supporting people with intellectual disabilities and autism in employment without fear of losing essential supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30164/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Assisted Decision-Making (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 940. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider reviewing the eligibility criteria for the EmployAbility Service to include individuals attending Section 39-funded organisations who are seeking employment but may not currently qualify; if he will consider the allocation of a dedicated local employment support officer in areas such as Mulhuddart to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 988. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí attached to roads policing units to date in May 2025 by division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Natura 2000 (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Fisheries Natura Declarations which have been completed for Natura 2000 sites in the marine and coastal environment, if work is underway to complete Fisheries Natura Declarations for Natura 2000 sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29822/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of his/her Department’s engagement with the WRC to restore pay parity between Section 38 and Section 39 workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total value of applications received under the recent building block grant scheme; if all eligible applications were funded under the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30357/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a breakdown of unsuccessful applications under the building block grant scheme, by county; the reason each application was unsuccessful; if there is an appeal mechanism for unsuccessful applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30358/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1215. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications under the building block grant scheme which were unsuccessful due to the fact that the applicant did not own the land; if the Minister will examine a remedy for these providers for future rounds of the programme in order to provide much needed additional capacity; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1216. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the work carried out to date to develop an action plan to build an affordable, high-quality, accessible early education and care system with State-led facilities adding capacity as committed in the Programme for Government; when she expects to publish this action plan; if she...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1217. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline the roadmap to reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child; if she will provide an estimated timeframe to meet this key Programme for Government commitment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30361/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1218. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to provide capital investment to build or purchase State-owned childcare facilities; if this will be a priority for the Minister as part of the current review of the National Development Plan; the engagement she has had with the Minister for Public Expenditure to date on this matter; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1219. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement her Department has had with the Department of Education and Youth regarding the construction of childcare facilities at schools which can then be contracted out to providers; her views on how this model will be progressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30363/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1220. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department is carrying out a mapping exercise to identify the parts of the country where State intervention in the provision of childcare is most acutely required; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30364/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1221. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of the number of new childcare providers who have entered the sector in each of the past five years, by county; the number of childcare providers who have left the sector in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30365/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1222. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to extend the National Childcare Scheme to childminders working in the family home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30366/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1223. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the annual budget for the national childcare scheme in each year since it was introduced, in tabular form; the number of childcare providers in receipt of NCS funding in each of these years; the number of children being supported in each of these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30367/25]