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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Regarding the small number coming through the system providing foster care, is there a particular challenge around locating care in emergencies?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: In the agency. HIQA might suggest that there is a higher proportion of Traveller children in the care setting. Is there a particular challenge in finding emergency care?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Is that 100 per month?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: I will slightly change the topic, if the Chair does not mind. One of the anecdotal experiences I have is that the first experience of the education system for Traveller children is the mainstream primary school. They often do not engage in preschool or childcare services prior to that. Is Tusla making specific efforts to try to promote this? Traveller families participate in the ECCE and...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Or a facility. It can be a community club.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Okay.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Did Ms O'Keeffe mention a home school liaison?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Is that school staff and teachers?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: May we get those 12 locations?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Is it the same data on those who choose to seek to educate their children at home?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Is there data on the members of the Travelling community who might seek to home-school?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: I welcome the emphasis in the budget on capital investment in infrastructure and housing. There is a full allocation of €19.1 billion for infrastructure in budget 2026, which is an increase of more than €2 billion on the 2025 figure. I very much welcome this. When we have such quantities of money to spend, it is important that we do not allow it to become bogged down in red...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fisheries Protection (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: I want to bring to the attention of the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, my concern about the proposal by Inland Fisheries Ireland, IFI, to close the Cong salmon hatchery at Cong on Lough Corrib. I cannot get clarity as to whether a decision has been made, or is due or pending. This concern has been brought to me by angling groups, in particular, but also by groups that advocate for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fisheries Protection (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for his response. There is an independence to the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland. I recognise that the Minister of State is being prudent in not interfering in its decision-making processes. I do not have the scientific background required to challenge some of the content of the response. Nevertheless, there are a number of things I note. This hatchery...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Mr. Nolan said, "Any reforms should be implemented in a way that will not damage the overall quality and functioning of the apprenticeship system." What type of reform could be proposed that he has heard mooted that could do that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: Is that DEIS schools only?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation provided to each local authority in 2024 to complete change of tenancy works on local authority social housing stock, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the methodology through which local authorities are funded to support the purchase of land and meet the development costs of providing affordable housing schemes within their administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) with the social welfare appeals office; the reason for the long delay in deciding said appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any courses run by an institution (details supplied) are approved courses under the student fee scheme for specified undergraduate courses as set out in Section 7 of the Student Support Act 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54055/25]