Results 281-300 of 430 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will grant an additional special education class for a school (details supplied) for the 2025-26 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 769. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the reinstatement of therapists from children disability network teams back to special schools since August 2024, and a breakdown of relevant figures including of recruitment attempts to backfill those posts within CDNTs following reinstatement of those therapists in special schools. [25749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 843. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of cost overruns stemming from HSE capital projects that were in excess of €100,000 at original cost projection and overran by 20% or more from 2020 to 2025, detailing the name of the project, the original cost projection and the latest cost projection, to include projects that are planned, in train or completed for the years in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 844. To ask the Minister for Health for the average monthly cost to the HSE of a full-time agency staff psychiatrist, clinical nurse specialist, staff nurse, psychologist, social worker and occupational therapist; and to ask for a comparison of average monthly salary costs to the HSE for a staff member who is directly employed by the HSE across the same disciplines, in tabular form. [25712/25]

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I commend the Independent Technical Group on its motion before the House today. I welcome the discussion of issues that are of such fundamental importance in the pursuit of a fair and inclusive society, and in how we value or fail to value the lives of our disabled citizens and our elders and, essentially, who we are as a society and as a republic. In this context, the means test for the...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: In his magisterial meditation on the Holocaust, The Drowned and the Saved, Italian survivor Primo Levi detailed in a chapter “Useless Violence” some of the cruelties and deprivations to which the Nazis subjected the Jewish community of Europe prior to their murder in concentration camps. The term “useless violence” reflected the lack of any rationale, even in the...

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: Ministerial appointments by this Government have not generally filled me with joy but I was glad to hear the Minister of State would be taking up this role. It is clear he has a genuine love of nature and a wealth of knowledge to back it up that would put most of us to shame, so I welcome his appointment. Unfortunately, our trees and hedgerows have never been more in danger. The legal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 177. To ask the Minister for Health for the projected costs of implementing the Mental Health Bill, including the cost of staffing that will be needed to expand the remit of the Mental Health Commission; and if there is a full funding commitment given by the Government to cover these costs. [26260/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 66. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports available for the acquisition of buildings for community use to help the regeneration of rural towns and villages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26170/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: In villages and towns throughout Ireland, there are vacant or derelict properties that represent a blight on their locality. They are like husks of wasted potential, preventing residents from having local community centres or some form of social or commercial hub. Bringing these vacant and derelict properties back into use would support the revitalisation of rural Ireland. Will the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for his response. I want to raise the particular example of Ballynoe in my constituency of Cork East where a former HSE dispensary building, a property owned by the State, has sat empty for several decades at least. Local residents believe it was last in use in the late 1970s or early 1980s but it has remained empty. It now sits boarded up with the gates locked and no...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for his encouraging response. I hope the Department will help the local community when it makes the application. On behalf of the community council in Ballynoe I have already been in touch with the HSE, which has indicated to me that it is its intention to sell the building. In line with the HSE property protocol and Department of public expenditure rules, it will be...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 106. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the schemes in place to help address loneliness and social isolation in rural areas and communities across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 247. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department has assessed the impact of the housing crisis on the Irish language, as native speakers are forced out of rural Gaeltacht areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26171/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 329. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the publication date of her Department's Disability Strategy. [26437/25]

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I commend Sinn Féin on its motion this evening. I fully support it. I will take the opportunity to say a few words about the occupied territories Bill and the remarkable journey this legislation has been on since 2018. It simply will not go away and this is in large part due to the incredible determination and forbearance of Senator Frances Black and her colleague Conor O'Neill....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (27 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 104. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the disability unit regarding funding commitments to the unit, staffing levels, consultation with disability groups and meetings of the unit that have been arranged to date. [26436/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (27 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 104. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the disability unit regarding funding commitments to the unit, staffing levels, consultation with disability groups and meetings of the unit that have been arranged to date. [26436/25]

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: In certain parts of County Cork, and nationally, we are dealing with a set of challenges to do with flood risks that are enormous in their scale and complexity. These challenges will test us more as time goes on and as the climate crisis deepens. Prior to our day of devastation in east Cork on 18 October 2023, and since then, the response by the State to the flood risk has been detached,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (28 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a timeline for when the future of the basic income for the arts pilot scheme will be decided; when a decision will be made on a successor scheme to the pilot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27755/25]