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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Government has established Cabinet Committees across a range of policy areas: •Economy, Trade and Competitiveness, •Housing, •Infrastructure, •Climate Action and Energy, •Disability, •Health, •EU and International Affairs, •Justice, Migration and Social Affairs, •Water Quality, •Northern Ireland,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cross-Border Co-operation (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: On 10 April, I announced the new phase of the Government’s Shared Island Initiative in a keynote address to the 4th Shared Island Forum. Our Programme for Government sets out an ambitious agenda for building a shared island, backed by a further €1 billion commitment to the Shared Island Fund out to 2035. On 25 February, the Government announced over €50 million from...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I attended the European Council meeting on Thursday 20 March where leaders discussed Ukraine and European Defence and Security. Other topics discussed were the Middle East, competitiveness, the next multi-annual financial framework (MFF) and new own resources, migration, oceans, multilateralism and the Western Balkans. Leaders were joined by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Cabinet Committee on Climate Action, Environment and Energy oversees implementation of Programme for Government commitments in relation to the environment, climate action, energy and emergency planning. It considers the wide range of issues that require action in Ireland’s transition to a low carbon, climate resilient and sustainable future: a future in which we take full...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Projects (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: Neither the Department of the Taoiseach nor the National Economic and Social Development Office - the only body under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach - have allocated funds in excess of €1 million to any IT projects in the specified time period.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Responsibilities (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: All Orders made by the Government delegating Ministerial functions to Ministers of State are laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. In addition, notice of the making of these Orders is also published in Iris Oifigiúil (www.irisoifigiuil.ie) and they are published on the online Irish Statute Book (www.irishstatutebook.ie).

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Housing Policy (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: In December 2023, an Expert Group was established under Housing for All to review conveyancing and probate processes in Ireland from a user perspective, and recommend changes, implementable quickly and easily, to reduce costs and delays for home-purchasers. Following publication of the Expert Group’s Report, Government approved the establishment of an Implementation Group on...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Strategies (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Government is committed to driving our digital agenda, and to remaining a digital leader at the heart of Europe, in an increasingly competitive and uncertain global environment. The Programme for Government includes a commitment to harness the digital and AI revolution to deliver effective and modern public services and to grow the economy. This includes a commitment to update the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Energy Usage (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The measures being taken by the Department of the Taoiseach to reduce its energy usage and meet its climate targets by 2030 are set out in the Department's Climate Action Roadmap which is published on gov.ie. at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/publications/depar tment-of-the-taoiseach-climate-action-roadmap-2024/.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: No agencies or quangos have been established by the Department of the Taoiseach in the last 10 years.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (13 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260 and 261 together. There are no non-governmental organisations under the aegis of Department of the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: At the outset, I appreciate the work Cara Darmody has been doing and her campaigning work with her father, Mark. She has been campaigning for quite some time. She initially began to do so in terms of advocacy for her family and now does so nationally in respect of disability rights more generally. When I was appointed Taoiseach earlier in the year, I committed that this would be a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has offered no solution. She has offered rhetoric, and that is all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is this. We will do everything we simply can to deal with the existing waiting lists and so forth. There has been a significant increase in the numbers of assessments that have actually taken place - a 30% increase on 2023 - but that in itself will not deal with the current situation. We have to have a multifaceted response. We need more therapists in third level colleges.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: We will be providing more private funding to procure assessments. All of that, however, will not, in my view, redirect the work of therapists most appropriately, which is to provide services to children.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I am making a point. Under the current system, the status quo is simply not tenable. The Deputy must know that deep down, so there has to be change in respect of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: In my view, we have to explore every avenue we can to increase the number of therapists and to recruit more therapists. The money is there in many instances-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and the HSE has not been able to recruit 100% of its CDNT teams.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: There will be.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: One of the reasons this Government quickly established the need for a therapy-in-school service, which we have now commenced and taken the decision to do, was the inadequacy of the response within the health service itself. Many CDNT teams are experiencing challenges in recruiting and retaining therapists, as well as wider general issues. The issue is actually not one of resources; it is...