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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 396. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will meet an organisation (details supplied) to progress an issue with an OPW site, as per correspondence from this Deputy to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17405/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available for a child (details supplied) to get to school where there is no Bus Éireann school service available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17491/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 27 February 2025, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications refused under the humanitarian assistance scheme, by county, in the aftermath of storm Éowyn to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 778. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of financial supports available to farmers where a number of animals in the herd are TB positive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17134/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 798. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when expressions of interest will open for family resource centres seeking to be included in national funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16608/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 837. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers who exited core funding in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date, in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 839. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when she plans to publish the report on the negotiations with religious organisations regarding the mother and baby institutions payment scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17409/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 836. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers signed up to core funding in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17401/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 838. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the review of core funding will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17404/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (8 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 840. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will examine the use of the Joint Labour Committee in setting wages for early years educators; if she will review this mechanism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17433/25]

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I will raise a number of points about all of this as a TD who has been contacted by a number of parents who have received letters informing them that the surgery that took place on their very young children may not actually have been necessary. I will refer first to the timeline. On Thursday, 13 March, The Ditch published an article providing details of what it said was the external report...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to the finding of the final substantive report of the commission of investigation into certain matters relative to a disability service in the south east and related matters, also known as the Farrelly commission, volumes 1 and 2; and the planned next steps in response. [21193/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister to respond to the report of the Farrelly commission into what has usually been termed the Grace case. More importantly, I want to know what the Minister's next steps will be and what she plans to do in response. I appreciate that much of this is HSE-related and there are a lot of questions for the HSE to answer. We are reminded that when Grace was failed in the first...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. There was something really stark in the response to the report's publication. Usually, we would be shocked by such failures and grave injustices but on the back of this report's publication, we saw widespread disbelief and disappointment concerning what the report was all about. It took a very long time to conclude the report - eight years - and it has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I appreciate the steps the Minister has taken and the work that will be undertaken on the back of the report specific to this case, and rightly so, as that needs to be done, but I also want to impress on the Minister the need to look at the care system today. The Children's Residential and Aftercare Voluntary Association has repeatedly called for a review of Ireland's care system. It has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 87. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on ongoing pay talks for early years educators. [21194/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I ask for an update on the ongoing talks on pay, particularly regarding the €45 million announced in budget 2025 that will be ring-fenced for pay for our early years educators.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: This is an issue I have raised on a number of occasions with the Minister. I welcome the fact she has met and engaged with the JLC and that she has gone further than that in asking it to utilise the €45 million because it is key we improve pay for the early years educators. We know staff turnover in the early years sector is really high. I got a breakdown, county by county. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister will be aware SIPTU is raising concerns about the fact the talks have been ongoing for a number of months and it feels there is a gap between the providers and those representing the early years educators and managers in the childcare settings. It is really important. It is good we have had the opportunity here this evening to make that call and to ask for the joint labour...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I wish to ask the Minister about the cost of childcare, which remains very high for a lot of parents and families. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to reduce the cost of childcare. How does the Minister intend to go about this and does she have a timeframe in mind for reducing the costs for families?