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Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: That is not what we are saying.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Leader's Questions.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to raise the issue of school funding. Yesterday, the Taoiseach informed the Dáil about the work of the financial support services unit in the Department of Education. Three school principals have been in touch with me who do not want to make a public matter of the issue but who want to get to the bottom of funding issues they are having. I have looked at the books in some of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (3 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I raise a significant issue, which is the funding of DEIS band 1 schools. Over the past number of years, we have seen significant funding go into education. Obviously, the free schoolbooks scheme and the free school meals scheme have been important for parents and education. In some cases, they have been a significant anti-poverty measure. I remember the first year the free school books...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (3 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I agree with the Minister of State that the FSSU is an important source of advice. It is the reason two of the schools took part in an analysis of cash flow last summer and again in October. Some recommendations and changes were made. The schools are anxious not to cause concern among parents and the community and wish to engage with the system. The Minister of State will note that I have...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if international protection applicants arriving in Ireland from Palestine will have their applications prioritised, as recommended by the UNHCR. [15286/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 180. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update in relation to a matter (details supplied). [16449/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an overview of the two reports by the child poverty and well-being programme office recently published by his Department. [8041/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: A number of initiatives under the Department of the Taoiseach deal with the issue of child poverty and tackling disadvantage. Enda Kenny established this in the north-east inner city and the Taoiseach rolled that out to other communities, including my own in Ballymun. The former Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, established the child poverty unit. As we head into the second part of the programme,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (9 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that has been taken to allow for plebiscites to change placenames; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17803/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budgetary provision he is making to enable the unit in the Housing Agency tasked to regulate owners’ management companies (OMCs) commence its work on an administrative basis in the first quarter of 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Functions (9 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made with transferring responsibility for multi-unit developments from his Department to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; if the transfer will be completed by the end of Q2 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17804/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to progress 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. [17997/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 242. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to progress the programme for Government commitment to ensure childcare providers’ fees are open, transparent and equitable and readily available to parents. [17998/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (10 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permit applications for the homecare sector received since the scheme opened in January 2023; the number of work permits issued; the number of applications returned at initial applications pre-check stage; the number of other applications rejected; the number of applications currently in processing; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (10 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 196. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering additional supports for SME’s given the recent tariff announcement by the USA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Online Safety (10 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 248. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his progress to date in the Programme for Government commitment to “resource and implement the new EU online safety framework to protect vulnerable groups from online harm, and tackle disinformation”. [18283/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if regulations on service charges and sinking funds, which were drafted by the Housing Agency in February 2022, will be issued by the end of Q3 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18280/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has identified sufficient resources to put in place in Q4 2025 to enable the unit in the Housing Agency to regulate owners’ management companies, as envisaged in the Programme for Government, to commence its work on an administrative basis in Q1 2026. [18281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 297. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is considering a PRSI rebate for SME’s to help them deal with increased costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18284/25]