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

Claire Kerrane: Does the Minister envisage investing more in the national childcare scheme to bring down the costs directly for parents? This is what Sinn Féin had proposed with our €10 per day plan, which is around €200 per month. This is using what is there with the current mechanism as the quickest way to bring down the costs of childcare. While the Government repeatedly tells us...

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

Claire Kerrane: In our own proposal on the €200 per month, we looked at using the national childcare scheme and expanding it to childminders. That would really assist in building capacity in the sector because for many parents, the choice is no longer there. If they want to get the subsidy and need help in affording childcare, they have to look to the formal setting whereas in rural areas in...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: It is totally unacceptable that in our State in 2025, children have no guarantee of an appropriate class place to meet their needs. An appropriate class place for children with additional needs will ensure that they can engage and fully participate in the classroom the same as any other child, and an appropriate class place must also be in the child's community. Why would we be busing our...

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (1 May 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I want to acknowledge the way the Minister went about making the rearrangements for this debate this morning and I thank her. Grace was 10 years old when she entered the foster care placement that is at the heart of the commission report. It was due to be a temporary placement in 1989. We cannot remind ourselves enough that she was a 10-year-old girl, a child, and she was without a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Qualifications (30 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to introduce an ‘earn and learn’ apprenticeship model enabling childcare staff to gain qualifications and advance their careers; and if she will make a...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises: — the challenges that exist in the Early Years Sector, including for parents trying to afford and access childcare places and for educators when it comes to pay and terms and conditions; — the thousands of children on waiting lists for childcare places; — the serious deficiencies in capacity in our Childcare Sector;...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I am stunned by the amendment the Minister has tabled to the motion. The motion seeks nothing more than for the Government to implement what the Minister outlined in the programme for Government and seeks further information and detail on the Government's commitment to our early years sector in the programme for Government, and the Minister could not even support that. The amendment refers...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 253. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek the removal of coarse fishing from the permit for anglers on the River Suck, given coarse fishing is free everywhere else, and the impact it is having on tourism and competitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19074/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on a visa application (details supplied) for a person who was granted a work permit five months ago under critical skills class; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19209/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children being accommodated in domestic violence refuges in 2022, 2023 and 2024, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19875/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1830. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to advise what will happen to residents (details supplied) once their time is up; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19208/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1856. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown in quintiles of the percentage cost of wages for the following type of private early childhood and school age services, multi-service provider, full-time, part time, sessional and afterschool, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19760/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1857. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown in quintiles of the percentage cost of wages for the following type of community early childhood and school age services, multi-service provider, full-time, part time, sessional, afterschool, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19761/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1866. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any other grant funding outside of Building Blocks provided via Pobal or any other agency for new builds for childcare facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19804/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1868. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report on the collaborative work being undertaken by her Department and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the youth homeless strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19873/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1869. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report on the proposed changes to Tusla's aftercare services for young people leaving State care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19874/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1965. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a timeline for the Programme for Government commitment to review and increase core funding, ensuring the fee cap is maintained and that the model is open, transparent and equitable, and that the early years educators in the private sector benefits from Employment Regulation Orders. [21195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to undertake a broad consultation and publish a detailed action plan to build an affordable, high-quality, accessible early childhood education and case system with State-led facilities adding capacity. [21196/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1967. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child through the national childcare scheme and explore options to cap costs for larger families. [21197/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on efforts to tackle waiting lists for assessment of needs. [21198/25]