Results 501-520 of 681 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 2615. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for specialist social work posts to assist in the roll out of assisted decision-making legislation; the number of specialist posts in place; the reasons the HSE has not used this funding to provide essential and specialist role in all CHO/acute settings to date; when the HSE plans to recruit and provide these specialist roles; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 2616. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals HIQA has made to the HSE safeguarding and protection teams since 2020; if a memorandum of understanding exists between HIQA and the HSE to ensure all relevant safeguarding concerns received by HIQA are referred to the HSE safeguarding and protection teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 2617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals an advocacy service (details supplied) has made to the HSE safeguarding and protection teams since 2020. [46990/25]

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for being here. The Government's newly launched national human rights strategy for disabled people is strong on aspirational language but we have yet to see any details on implementation such as funding commitments, staffing benchmarks or timeframes to back it up. For a sector that is so deep in crisis across all areas, including educational placements, access to...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I commend Sinn Féin on its motion. At the Committee on Disability Matters this morning, the Minister of State told us that the number of children without a special education placement for this school term was in single digits. It is fair to say there was some respectful scepticism among committee members about that claim. I raised with the Minister of State the fact that there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received for the school term 2025-2026 for a special education class, in a mainstream school or a special school; and the number of children who are projected to not be able to access a school place in the community in which they live. [48157/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of taxis in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 transporting children to special education placements due to a lack of provision in their locality, broken down by geographical area. [48158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Regulations (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 932. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of Ireland’s position regarding the EU's new chat control legislation, the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48954/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Regulations (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 933. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department engaged any external advice on the effectiveness of the automated scanning of messages and the feasibility of the technology proposed in relation to the EU's chat control legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48955/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Regulations (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 934. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department engaged any external advice on the effects the EU's chat control legislation will have on an individual’s privacy rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48956/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 1056. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total cost of outsourcing assessments of need in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, by Health Region-CHO. [48141/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 1065. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of adults with an intellectual disability waiting for residential placements nationwide, by health region and the duration of these waits, in tabular form. [48153/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 1066. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of her commitment to funding additional residential placements for adults with an intellectual disability over 2025 to 2026, in particular the number of additional placements committed to and the timeframe for their provision, by heath region, in tabular form. [48154/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 1210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents on waiting-lists in primary care services for occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy in excess of one year, two years, three years and so on, until the longest duration in years, by health region, in tabular form. [48155/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 1211. To ask the Minister for Health the grade and service location of primary care and secondary mental health posts, within each health region, in occupational therapy, social work, psychology, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy which were vacated in 2023 and 2024 that have yet been submitted for replacement and which have not yet received stage 3 approval, in tabular form. [48156/25]

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: Enrolment in our school bus system has become an annual crisis, involving huge stress and uncertainty for many families. It is a stand-out example of the Government's inability or unwillingness to get the basics right for families. What should be a straightforward service has become an epic fiasco of poor, disjointed planning and crude restrictions, with so much unnecessary worry and hassle...

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Grealish, for being here. The Social Democrats' views on the auto-enrolment system have been well articulated by my colleague Deputy Gannon in previous Dáil debates, particularly in April of last year. We very much welcome the concept but have concerns which I will go into in some detail. Every worker should have access to a retirement income...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to introduce a cost of disability payment to help address the significant additional costs of having a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50570/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: Will the Minister provide some detail on the Government's commitment to introduce a permanent cost of disability payment to help to address the significant additional costs that come with having a disability and impose financial hardship on many of our disabled citizens?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for his response. A recent report from the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission shows that the additional costs faced by disabled people are now estimated to be between 52% and 59% of disposable income. For those with more severe disabilities, that rises to as much as 93%. These costs arise across essential areas,...