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

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister about a number of key commitments in relation to childcare in early years in the programme for Government, specifically the broad consultation, the detailed action plan to ensure accessible, affordable, high-quality childcare and also the review of core funding. I ask her to provide us with any timeframe in relation to any of those three key commitments. Within the broad...

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

Claire Kerrane: I want to come back to the State-led facilities, which is a significant move. The Minister talked about looking at areas of unmet need. I understand some scoping was carried out within the Minister’s Department in terms of where that unmet need is. To provide one example, which I have given here before, an analysis was carried out with the family resource centre in Boyle, County...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (23 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on her engagement with Tusla following the report of a missing child in Donabate, Dublin, to date in 2025; the steps Tusla is now taking, and the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49873/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (23 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: Things have moved on since I submitted this question and we now know that child was Daniel Aruebose. I take this opportunity to offer my sympathies to everybody who loved him, especially the foster carers who looked after him.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (23 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. I appreciate, and we all respect, that the Garda investigation is under way and the force has to be allowed do its work. It is important to acknowledge those gardaí as well. It was a very difficult search, especially finding the remains. I have a couple of questions. I welcome that the closed cases will be examined, starting with those closed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (23 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I take it from that reply that perhaps this will be done in future by Tusla, and of course there is a role for other organisations. On one other point, there appears to be a gap for preschool-age children. When a child is born, there may be a number of visits by the public health nurse to the home. After that, depending on whether the child goes into formal childcare, there really is no...

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

Claire Kerrane: 59. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the report by the special advocate for survivors’ in relation to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49908/25]

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

Claire Kerrane: 66. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement she has had with the Minister for Transport on issues being faced by disabled persons driving or as passengers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49907/25]

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

Claire Kerrane: 79. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on the waiting list for an assessment of need; the number of those waiting over one year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49906/25]

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

Claire Kerrane: 86. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of family resource centres that applied to come in under the national forum that were not successful; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49909/25]

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I am really glad to have the opportunity to speak on these statements this evening and that the Minister is in the House to listen. My home town is Ballaghaderreen, west Roscommon. This is an issue I have raised repeatedly since my being elected in 2020 because our town was one of very few in the entire State to take in Syrian refugees back in 2017. It welcomed and gave céad míle...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (18 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 29 July 2025, if the exemption from motor tax and an annual fuel grant, under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme is available for people to apply and access immediately; if so, the way in which a person applies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49331/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (18 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that disability allowance recipients are having their allowance revoked based on his Department’s contention that the person can work despite the person’s GP (best placed) categorically stating the person is unable to work; the way in which his Department can ascertain the person can work over...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (18 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason children with additional needs are only sponsored with the national childcare scheme until children turn four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49406/25]

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

Claire Kerrane: Why is it a secret as to how many children with additional needs are without an appropriate class place? Whether it is one, ten or 100, it is one child too many, as we are talking about a child who is unable to go to school in Ireland in 2025. There are two calls in particular in this motion tonight that I want to highlight. They are reasonable and sensible. They are to establish the...

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

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this strategy and I hope we will see quick and thorough implementation. I was struck by the word "choice" on page 12. It is one of the values that underpins this strategy, but the Government must create the spaces where people have a choice. It is up to the Minister and the Government to ensure there are choices. For example, today people with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 422. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a decision will be made on an employment permit appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Department funding for a school (details supplied) that is left over from completed works can be re-directed in view of damage caused by such works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish a national phone line where applicants of the vacant home scheme seeking information and support with their application can call in view of the complexity of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48738/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the stress and difficulties, delays in local authorities paying for works carried out under the vacant homes scheme is causing for homeowners; the steps he and the Government will take to reduce these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48739/25]