Results 361-380 of 430 for speaker:Liam Quaide
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (19 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to a report on child poverty (details supplied); his plans to address the rising number of children living in consistent poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33108/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (19 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I would like to ask the Minister for his response to the recently published child poverty monitor report and his plans to address the rising number of children living in consistent poverty. The findings of that report make for very grim reading and should focus the minds of the Government on a major change in policymaking.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (19 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: The stark and ever-worsening reality of child poverty is laid bare in the child poverty monitor and wider research. The Children's Rights Alliance has issued a stark warning that unless ambitious action is taken by the Government it will take Ireland four to five generations to break the cycle of poverty. The report found that the number of children living in consistent poverty rose by a...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (19 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I acknowledge the supports the Minister mentioned, but we have not seen sufficiently ambitious targeted measures and strategic investment in recent budgets designed to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. It is critical, therefore, that there is a focus in budget 2026 on breaking that cycle. The cumulative impact of continued rising costs of living has created a landslide effect...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I thank the witnesses very much for being here today. In recent years, the problems in children's disability network teams and, indeed, child and adolescent mental health services have been well acknowledged and documented, and there have been efforts to address those. However much of a distance we have to go with that, the first stage is acknowledging the scale of the difficulties....
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I want to take up the point about the psychology trainee posts. An additional 45 psychology trainee placements were announced, which was very welcome. Initially, the psychology managers had been told that, through the pay and numbers strategy, this would not affect recruitment outside of that. I know that in some parts of the country, areas are being asked to forfeit posts in order to make...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: Yes.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: That is very reassuring. I thank Mr. Gloster.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I want to raise a frustration that I am experiencing regarding the answering of parliamentary questions. I would be grateful if the HSE could address that locally. On 8 April, I submitted parliamentary questions to all regional health areas separately on primary care psychology waiting lists. I asked for the years and months spent waiting, as well as the longest wait time. What the HSE...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: It is there.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I emailed Mr. Gloster about another point. I do not know if he had a chance to look at it. Due to my role in mental health I have a strong focus on people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. They fall under the ambit of this committee, particularly given the focus we have on the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. This is a cohort of people who...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I met Dr. Andy Philips as well and he said there was going to be a community of neighbourhoods around-----
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: The zoning does not add up to that.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I want to come back to the St. Stephen's Hospital proposal for continuing care, rehabilitation and recovery, and a 50-bed service. Mr. Gloster mentioned the progress that has happened with the Owenacurra Centre. Two houses have been acquired in Midleton, which is brilliant. That rebuild is stalled but it is going through the planning process. My experience of that campaign, and that of...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: St. Stephen's is in the hinterland of Glanmire.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I would much prefer to engage with HSE in a productive collegiate way, rather than this kind of war of attrition which is where we often end up with campaigns.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on plans to introduce a permanent annual cost of disability support payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33110/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (19 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his plans to address the gap between the better off and those on the lowest welfare and work incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33109/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (19 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: 190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of individuals or groups who lobbied the Government to include the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism in the Programme for Government. [33397/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (19 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: 191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of individuals or groups who lobbied the Government to include the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism in the Programme for Government. [33398/25]