Results 421-437 of 437 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 63. To ask the Minister for Health her recruitment plans to address the waiting-list crisis in child and adolescent primary care psychology services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34665/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: The scale of the crisis in primary care services for young people is so serious that the HSE is avoiding parliamentary questions about it. Only after 11 weeks did I receive a response from the HSE Dublin and north-east region on its psychology waiting lists, and no wonder. The longest waiting time there involves a child who was initially referred to disability services an incredible nine...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: -----that sees staffing of essential services as a cost, not as an investment.

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I have been working with a parents' campaign group in Youghal in recent months, which is seeking the establishment of a new secondary level special education school in east Cork for children whose needs cannot be met by the autism hub in the local secondary school. As we know, parents can be left in a deeply unsettling state of uncertainty in the lead-up to a decision on their school...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I commend the Labour Party on its motion. We fully support it. It has been an honour to meet in recent weeks with Safeguarding Ireland, Care Champions, and the Irish Association of Social Workers to discuss adult safeguarding and systemic problems within our nursing home sector and other care facilities. I look forward to engaging with Inclusion Ireland, Sage Advocacy and others to this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: As the Minister knows, many settlements in east Cork were devastated by flooding during Storm Babet in October 2023. I met with the Midleton and East Cork Flood Protection Group last Friday, alongside my colleague, Councillor Eamonn Horgan. There is growing concern and frustration within the community about the rate of progress of flood relief works. We have had major delays with the...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: There have been some exciting developments in east Cork rail over the past 16 years. The return of the Midleton to Cork line in 2009 has been hugely progressive for the region and the number of passengers is increasing year on year. Ten-minute frequencies from 2026 onwards will be a game changer as will the proposed new stations for Water Rock and Carrigtwohill west. Cobh, Carrigtwohill,...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I support my colleagues Deputies Coppinger, O'Reilly and Wall in respect of amendment No. 1. I appeal to the Minister, in the spirit of meaningful collaboration on the Bill, to take on their very reasonable arguments, which have been very well articulated. If clear unfairness is identified in a Bill, it is very important that it is acknowledged and that there is not a default Government...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (1 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the project within his Department to review and update wildlife legislation, specifically in relation to protecting hedgerows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35770/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: 527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons his Department does not recognise civil partnerships registered in Northern Ireland between 16 May 2016 and 12 January 2020 for social welfare purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35693/25]

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister of State and her colleagues very much for being here today. It is very good to have them. Neurorehabilitation, both pediatric and adult inpatient and community, is an area that requires a great deal of investment and service development. I urge the Minister of State to look at a service that originated in the US and has recently set up in London. That service is the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: As to a second NRH and, more specifically, inpatient neurorehabilitation, are there any particular plans or proposals around that?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: There is quite a burden on families for that initial period of rehabilitation in terms of travel and quality of life and often having to spend extended time in Dublin. Also, the waitlist for the NRH is very long at the moment and that can have knock-on impacts on outcomes if there is not timely intervention. I had the good fortune of working in the Peter Bradley Foundation, now ABI...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: The Minister of State mentioned retention issues in children's disability network teams, CDNTs, quite a bit and this was focused on by senior HSE management and the National Disability Authority in the committee's previous two sessions as well. I keep trying to draw attention back to the elephant in the room, which is primary care services for young people. It has not been about retention...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I appreciate that it comes under health but there is such a close interplay between primary care and CDNTs because primary care has very large numbers of young people with disabilities. The reason I asked the question was because I raised the crisis in primary care waiting lists with the Minister of State's colleague, the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, in the Dáil yesterday. I...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: Clinicians will not be attracted into it.