Results 301-320 of 367 for speaker:Jen Cummins

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (17 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: 946. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31792/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (17 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: 947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending the current fee contribution grants for eligible undergraduate part-time students to part-time post-graduate students. [31793/25]

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: Regarding parents notifying the NCSE by 1 October 2025, how will that be communicated to parents? What if parents get a diagnosis after that date? What will happen?

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: Will people be encouraged to-----

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: I know there is a move to make mild general learning disability schools more catch-all schools to have a broader admissions policy. I am a bit concerned about that and I raised it in the Dáil. I did not get the Minister's answer last time. I am still concerned about that. There is merit in ensuring we can provide for every child in the school. I think this country is rich enough to...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: We may not necessarily agree on that because I think we need to keep those schools and to open additional schools for others. I know it is not about moving those children back to mainstream or into mainstream or whatever, but I am concerned they will be lost in the system. I welcome the educational therapy services, and I look forward to them being rolled out further in as many schools as...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: I have a question on hot school meals. I welcome that the Department is looking at the nutritional value of those meals. I recently visited a school that had brought in local providers. I was quite hungry at the time, but they looked incredibly nice. I visited schools in England. They were resourced with their own canteens and local staff, so they were not relying on private businesses....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Poverty (18 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: 130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the immediate and measurable actions she will take to reverse the increase of children living in poverty. [32986/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (18 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: 131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will commission an impact assessment of accommodation overcrowding on children. [32987/25]

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

Jen Cummins: 132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to introduced targeted investments, in childcare, especially in early years education. [32988/25]

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

Jen Cummins: 133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to address the number of families who cannot access affordable childcare. [32989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (19 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: 373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason there are no survivors of institutional abuse representatives on the decision-making bodies, including legal and archival committees associated with the Centre for Research and Remembrance. [33430/25]

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank Sinn Féin for introducing this motion. The Social Democrats will support it. Democracy is something we must strive to keep in a world where we see it being eroded and erased. Voting in elections is fundamental to democracy. The decision to extend voting rights to people has been a battle, particularly for women, over the past 100 years. Last year was a bumper year of...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: This motion comes at a time of deep concern for the people of Ireland but particularly for my constituency of Dublin South Central. Our capital city is at breaking point. The housing crisis we are living in is dire. Every single clinic I have is jammed with people who are in desperate situations. They are coming to the clinic, the phone never stops ringing and the emails are full. When...

Transparency and Social Value in Public Procurement Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is postponed until the next weekly division time.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank the Minister and welcome back everyone who was here very late last night. I welcome all the new people as well for today's meeting. I wish to discuss two connected matters and one that is separate. The first is the school completion programme. I always talk about it because I came from working in the school completion programme. Having spoken to colleagues over the past number of...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: Budgets are being managed so things have to be reduced because you have to pay staff. In the school completion programme, in order to fulfil all the things in a retention plan, something has to go. In the past, that has meant staff have gone on a reduced working year or have not taken increments. In a country so rich, it is not right. It also means services are not provided. For example,...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: On youth work, I know it has only been part of the Department for a month. I look forward to seeing how that is elaborated upon in the budget. I cannot see the specifics of how it will work with youth work included in the Department. Youth work is fundamental to a functioning society. Every time I go to a community and safety forum in Dublin city, who is there? The Garda, Dublin City...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: That leads to my final question. Youth work is very targeted in this country. It is for the most disadvantaged young people and young people who are marginalised in particular ways. Having been a youth worker, I would love to see youth work provided for everybody, so that the funding is not just for targeted supports. That is not to take away from them but it would mean every child, no...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Jen Cummins: I welcome the extension of the free books scheme to leaving certificate level in the free education system. There has been talk from parents recently about the cost of uniforms. It is my understanding that a circular was published a number of years ago, which stated there should be generic uniforms on which logos could be ironed and so on. How is that being managed? If schools are still...