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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken to ensure that the National Parks and Wildlife Service stakeholder forum will be established on a permanent footing with regular meetings starting in quarter four of 2024 as promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38196/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide a concrete timeline for the establishment of the National Parks and Wildlife Service stakeholder forum, including the dates for the first meeting and the frequency of subsequent meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38197/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way the National Parks and Wildlife Service stakeholder forum will ensure the inclusion of all relevant stakeholders, including environmental, conservation, rural pursuits, and farming interests, to ensure a fully inclusive approach to future policymaking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38198/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans to introduce a scheme with an initial fund of €5 million to defray governance costs for charities with audited accounts (details supplies); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38250/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Children in Care (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will coordinate with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure a cross-Government approach to supporting foster care, particularly in providing educational support to children in care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38413/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are being taken to ensure that special needs assistants (SNAs) receive the recognition and appreciation they deserve from schools and her Department; if she recognises that the current educational requirements for SNAs, set at three passes in the Junior Certificate, do not reflect the actual qualifications held by many SNAs;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the concerns regarding the low salaries and pensions of SNAs, and to ensure that their compensation reflects their qualifications and the critical role they play in the education system; the upcoming initiatives or resources that will be provided to support SNAs in their roles, particularly in light of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to highlight and enhance the role of SNAs in the education of children with special needs, ensuring that their contributions are adequately recognized and supported; the mechanisms that are in place for ongoing communication and engagement with SNAs to address their concerns and incorporate their feedback into policy...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 194. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider implementing pension reforms to ensure that foster carers are not financially penalised in later life for their service to the State, therefore being able to receive a full contributory State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38408/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 275. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide additional funding to cover essential expenses for foster carers, including placement start-up costs and fair travel reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38409/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that children in foster care are auto-enrolled in the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38410/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 277. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will enhance funding for Tusla’s regional therapeutic teams, to ensure timely therapeutic interventions for children in care who have experienced trauma; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38411/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Children in Care (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if he will coordinate with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure a cross-Government approach to supporting foster care, particularly in providing health services to children in care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38412/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to ringfence 10% of the national training fund for the charity sector to support digital upskilling (details supplied). [38264/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to introduce a dedicated grant scheme of €1 million for trustee training and development to support good governance in the charity sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38265/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 327. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there are plans to expedite the multi-annual funding proposals for the charity sector as outlined in her Department’s five-year strategy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38258/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (26 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: 328. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there are plans to provide additional resources to the Charities Regulator for the development and publication of real time data from annual reports and financial statements (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38259/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (1 Oct 2024)

Michael Lowry: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to establish a national advisory group on school library provision and to develop a national strategy ensuring every school has a library, a librarian, and access to the Junior Certificate school programme demonstration library programme digital library service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38915/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Oct 2024)

Michael Lowry: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for the immediate expansion of the Junior Certificate school programme demonstration library project, by school; how the benefits of dedicated library spaces and professional librarians, particularly in DEIS schools, will be maximised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38916/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (1 Oct 2024)

Michael Lowry: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how her Department plans to address Ireland’s lag in school library provision compared to European neighbours and other developed countries; whether there will be a commitment to providing necessary funding in Budget 2025 to support school libraries and qualified librarians beyond the €20 million school library book grant of...