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Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I invite Deputy Dempsey to take the Chair and make her declaration.

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Ms Rogers. We will all be doing that when we leave here. I thank all the witnesses for their robust statements and contributions today and, indeed, all the work they are doing to try to tackle this important issue. As Ms Rogers said, there are many different Dublins. Another message might be that we are all in multiple WhatsApp or Facebook groups. People might often not think the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I assure the Chair I am much stricter with him in my committee. I will carry on the conversation that we have been having over the past few minutes. It strikes me that this is very much a chicken and egg situation, where we seem to be going backwards. There are huge waiting lists for assessments of need and places in special schools, and demand to open more classes. That stems from a...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: It is a total shift in mindset. We have only a specific cohort of children getting individual education plans. I often found when I visited schools and wanted to help parents work on an individual education plan over the summer, I realised the plan was a document that sat on a shelf but what happened on the ground was very different. To get to that model would be phenomenal, especially...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on changes to the Garda vetting system being considered by the Government; the proposed changes to re-vetting requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53675/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: The Garda vetting review group recently submitted its report to the Minister. Will the Minister provide an update on the changes to the Garda vetting system being considered by the Government, especially the proposed changes to the re-vetting requirements, as we know a lot of people are very frustrated with the delays that have been caused, especially in NGOs and sporting groups?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: As Chair of the Joint Committee on Children and Equality, and somebody who has worked with children her whole life, I join the Minister in wanting to ensure that our Garda vetting process is robust and that we are protecting our vulnerable children and adults. At the same time, it is great to hear that the report has made it to the Minister's desk. The review was initiated in 2021....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I know it is easy for someone such as me to come in and offer a simple solution. I appreciate that the response is not so simple. At the moment, however, a lot of unnecessary duplication is happening. Multiple checks are being carried out into the same people to verify the same information. One of the key problems is that people who are trying to start a job can come into financial...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (9 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Séamus McGrath - To discuss the need to review the protocol in dealing with suspected victims of a drink spiking incident. Deputy John Connolly - To discuss a proposal to close the salmon hatchery at Cong on Lough...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered changes to the inheritance tax policy for individuals without children; if measures to increase the inheritance tax exemption under the current inheritance tax policy in respect of individuals without children are being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53709/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Services (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the State’s response to storm Éowyn. [49218/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Rights of the Child (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 511. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on her Department's work in relation to the development of a national policy on the rights of children living in informal kinship care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53011/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to support those in social housing whose home is affected by pyrite; if legislative amendments to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 will support them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53451/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the legislative amendments to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022; to provide a timeline for these changes to be enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53450/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to introduce cash as a payment method in NDLS centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54265/25]

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: Today, I have constituents who feel unheard, unseen and left in limbo. I want to acknowledge that progress has been made. The Government has taken steps in recognising the scale of the housing defects crisis by the establishment of the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme and by announcements of increased caps offering choices between non-demolition, remediation or a full technical...

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: Apologies have been received from Deputy Kerrane and Senator Bradley. The agenda is the resumption of our consideration of child poverty and deprivation. We have many witnesses before us and they are all welcome. I thank them for being with us. I welcome Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General; Ms Lara Hynes, assistant secretary, child policy and Tusla governance division; and Dr....

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I invite Ms Hurley to deliver her opening statement.

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Ms Hurley. I had the pleasure of meeting my own SICAP group this week. They are doing great work on the ground. I invite Mr. Egan to deliver his opening statement.

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Mr. Egan. I invite Ms Canavan to deliver her opening statement.