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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Reports (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 394. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to implement the recommendations of the 2024 PLACES report commissioned by her Department on pregnancy loss. [52791/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 396. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how the NCS IT system was able to process applications in respect of school-going age for 41 hours per week. [52806/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 397. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions taken by her Department on foot of the fault in the NCS IT system; the resources allocated to the follow-up inspection; and the number of services inspected as part of this investigation. [52807/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 398. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason parents have to renew their NCS eligibility every eight weeks; and the plans she has to lengthen this period. [52808/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 399. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when exactly early years services will receive the additional supports committed to them on foot of the reduction in the fee cap from 1 September 2025; and if such support will be backdated to 1 September. [52809/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Okay. On insourcing, I thank the officials for setting out the detail today. I hear an ambiguity with regard to the June 2026 deadline. I want to understand a bit more about the impact on the capacity in the system. Mr. Gloster's document refers to an outer risk of 4%. Is he saying there will be 4% less capacity made available to the HSE because of the initiative it has now taken in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I fully support it. I want to ask, though, about the waiting list action plan. A vast amount of money was allocated to the NTPF and a lot less to the HSE. From what I read here, there is going to be much more reliance on traditional overtime or agency staff. Is there going to be a reallocation within the waiting list action plan allocation for this year? A lot of the focus has been on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: That is a great credit to the management there. We are talking about where the waiting lists are now, but I am particularly interested in managing the waiting lists into the future. The Minister has access to the forecast demand. What impact is the delay to the four elective hospitals going to have on waiting list management over the next years? We were supporting the Minister in her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: To be clear, is there still a commitment to four new elective hospitals or is that changing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I am not disputing that. It is just the cost and availability-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank all the officials and the Minister. We could probably spend two days talking about all the issues. I welcome the initiative on physiotherapy, OT and SLT. There is a glaring omission, though, with regard to psychology therapies. At the end of last year, we had nearly 24,000 children waiting, while over 10,000 had been waiting 12 months or longer. Why has psychology not been...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Beidh daoine ag féachaint ar an mbuiséad seo inniu agus á gceistiú féin cá bhfuil na gealltanais ó thoghchán 2024. Cá bhfuil an laghdú do theaghlaigh ar chúram leanaí nó na cúirteanna saor in aisce chuig an GP? Cá bhfuil na leabaí ospidéil bhreise agus na gealltanais eile? Beidh daoine ag rá leo...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Some 750,000 people are waiting on outpatient waiting lists. Time and again children are being failed because of the huge shortage of therapies and supports to those with additional needs in this country. It is not clear to me that the health budget of €1.5 billion announced today is in any way sufficient to cover existing services, growing demand, a rising population and higher...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I want to read back a piece of the Minister, Deputy Chambers' speech today because I found it fascinating he would go to the trouble of saying: For a small country, Ireland offers an extraordinary wealth of talent and entertainment. Our artists, writers and athletes are now leading the way on the world stage... He says all that and then cuts the budget to the arts and culture.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: It is incredible. How are we supposed to see artists supported in this country if the Government is going to expand-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: -----the basic income for artists scheme, which we very much welcome, but cut supports to all other parts of the arts sector? I have to ask: is this the vengeance of the Minister, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan, for the Arts Council and what happened earlier this year? There are very serious questions that have to be asked of the Minister today. Mar fhocail scoir, climate action appears to...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: We have seen heat pumps with a take-up of only 30% of the targets, with only 47% of a take-up in local authorities. The reality is if we want clean, cheap energy for the many, not the few, and we want to see a permanent reduction in the cost of living and with regard to energy in particular, then we have to do things differently.

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank all the organisations here today, and Ms Rice in particular. Her contribution today was really powerful. I thank her. I am familiar with the work of SAOL and EPIC, but it is great to have Kinship Care Ireland and FamiliBase here as well. I often think of the word "kinship"; we are all familiar with the phrase "next of kin" yet so few people out there actually understand what...

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I know I am out of time but I have a question which can be answered later as it is important to understand it. It is with regard to health and education. The lack of access has been well set out, as has lack of recognition by the health service of those in kinship arrangements, particularly in informal kinship arrangements. Has this changed much over the past 20 years? I am thinking in...

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, to the Chamber. I note that we have mental health campaigners in the Gallery. They are all very welcome.