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Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: It is the only option.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: As we know, the longer the hiatus grows when they go out of school, and I have found the same with adults who come out of day services, the more there is a resistance to go back in again.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I did not realise I would get a second bite of the cherry. We can take up where we left off the last time when the witnesses were answering questions on the competition between primary care, CDNTs and education for scarce allied health professionals. What are the witnesses’ views on that? How can we increase the number of allied health professionals...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: We seem to have gone from a time when people could only get a physiotherapy appointment in a hospital in the community - I am taking physiotherapy as an example, but it is interchangeable with speech and language therapy, not as a profession but rather as a group of professions that are hugely sought after, highly valuable and hugely skilled – to a point where there are...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: That is exactly the point I am making.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: Any interruption in recruitment and retention takes years to put right again. It is amazing.

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

Martin Daly: I thank the Minister and her teams from the HSE and the Department of Health for attending and for giving us their report. My comments will be on the issues of capacity, productivity and digitalisation. Insourcing and outsourcing reflect a lack of capacity in our system that is understandable because our population has grown by 1.2 million in the past 20 years. However, the public needs to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Martin Daly: 469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review and increase the capitation grant for national schools in Budget 2026, in light of rising operational costs and the financial pressures faced by school communities. [51585/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (30 Sep 2025)

Martin Daly: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm whether plans are in place to implement the commitment set out in the Programme for Government to reduce class sizes in primary schools to 20 pupils or fewer. [51587/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (30 Sep 2025)

Martin Daly: 637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the income thresholds for single occupancy households applying for the fuel allowance, in view of the increased cost of living and the fact that two-person households benefit from a higher threshold; and if he will consider raising the income limits for single person households to ensure equitable access...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recommendations of the Walker report have not been implemented; the current status of their implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52819/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I acknowledge the Minister's bona fides in the matter of the maternity unit in Portiuncula hospital. She has acted at all times on advice in what she felt is the best interest of the safety of mothers and babies in the region. However, I want to ask her why the Walker report of 2018 was not implemented and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I acknowledge the mothers and babies who have experienced, at birth, sometimes catastrophic events. It is a small number of women but that makes it no less. I worked with the Minister on Portiuncula maternity unit on the premise that the Walker report had been delivered, but it manifestly has not been delivered. I do not believe the HIQA report. Last week, at the health committee, the CEO...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: We are not in a good space because the maternity unit in Portiuncula hospital is in trouble. For example, it was recommended by the Walker report that there be seven consultant obstetricians. It never happened. There were five at the most: three full-time, one on managed leave and one on managed sick leave. There was never a full complement. Someone second-guessed the Walker report, so...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: 103. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of HSE staff currently employed in acute services and the proportion employed in community health services; the equivalent figures at the end of 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52219/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: 139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care support hours provided for older people in Roscommon in 2024; the target for same in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52218/25]

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

Martin Daly: I am happy to continue with Deputy Ó Murchú’s conversation because it is really important. I visited a special school in Castlerea the other day. It is a tremendous school with an extension and it looks after 85 children with special needs. The problem is the school catchment area. Reference was made to all the CDNT teams that have to be dealt with. The therapists in the...

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

Martin Daly: At a huge cost.

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

Martin Daly: I am sorry.

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

Martin Daly: I apologise as I was at the meeting of the health committee. However, I have read the opening statement.