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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: We are all aware - and it has been discussed already tonight - of the length of waiting lists of families waiting for therapies in this country. I ask the Minister of State to address the House tonight on any plans she may have for a reimbursement scheme for families who have had to pay privately for their child due to these long waiting lists.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank the Minister of State. I am all for public services and I welcome the fact the Minister of State is chasing down the maximum number of public services we can and increasing the number of consultants and clinicians we have in that area. Unfortunately, too many families are waiting too long for those much-needed services for speech and language, OT, physiotherapy or whatever their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I always welcome the Minister of State finishing with a question like that. I am going to use the opportunity once again to raise Sensational Kids, a new building in Kildare town. I am sure the Minister of State is aware of this particular building. It remains unbuilt since November 2024. This building could have allowed up to 300 children per week in the greater Kildare and Leinster area...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 2. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans for introducing a right to respite for family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50022/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I think everyone in this House can agree that family carers right across the State do an outstanding job 24-7. I would, as I am sure the family carers would, love to hear the Minister's plans to introduce respite for those family carers.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I appreciate the Minister's reply. As I said in my introduction, we are all aware of the great work of family carers, what they do for the State and the €20 billion they save the State every year. However, as the Minister said in her reply, they need a break, something we all can agree on. Today I attended the family carers' pre-budget presentation. One of the issues for the people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: One of the areas I want to concentrate on tonight is emergency care. I have come across a number of cases recently where family carers need that respite care in an emergency situation. I know that Family Carers Ireland has been providing such a service for a number of years and it tells us that that service is underfunded. I ask the Minister tonight to consider through the budget...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank Deputy Eoghan Kenny for affording me the opportunity to raise a number of matters. I welcome that the Minister of State is before us this evening. Like many Deputies here today, I have been inundated with queries from worried parents who are struggling to get answers from Bus Éireann on their children's school bus places. In many cases, parents were contacted a week or two...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 48. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline her plans for the development of a childcare action plan to address the current childcare crisis in the country. [50026/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 62. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the lack of a family resource centre in north west Kildare, in particular the Allenwood area; and if she would consider funding the development of a resource centre in the area. [50025/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 77. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are any funding schemes in her Department to support organisations in developing changing places toilet facilities. [50028/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the provision of a second bridge in Newbridge, County Kildare. [49577/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the provision of a town bus service in Newbridge. [49578/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is another way to complete a theory test for those who are not computer literate and cannot comprehend the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49773/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline when a school bus ticket and route will be issued for a child (details supplied). [49974/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline for the past four years, the average time between reviews for recipients of a carer’s allowance; the number of times his Department has reviewed a carer’s allowance recipient more than once in a year; if multiple reviews of recipients is standard; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 523. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the work her Department has undertaken for the development of a cost of disability payment alongside the Department of Social Protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50023/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Communications (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 524. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the planned playground for Newbridge, County Kildare. [49579/25]

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank Deputy Kenny for sharing his time. I also thank Sinn Féin for tabling this very important motion. In recent months not a week has gone by when my office has not received calls from worried parents looking for a special school place for their children. I am worried about the numbers the Minister of State has given us this evening. Like other colleagues, I am dealing with at...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the national human rights strategy for disabled people. Of course, it has long been awaited and many disability organisations have been campaigning for its publication. It is the first strategy since Ireland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was way back in 2018. I welcome the fact, as the Minister herself...