Results 561-580 of 681 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: 3033. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024; her plans for any changes to the system for personal assistant hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42918/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: 3226. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of current CAMHS staffing levels across each health region; and the breakdown of how these compare with staffing levels benchmarked per population of 12,500 young people across disciplines, as set out in the HSE's national model of care for paediatric healthcare services. [43983/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: 3227. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of current staffing levels across each health region for eating disorder services; and the breakdown of how these compare with staffing levels across disciplines benchmarked in the HSE's national clinical programme for eating disorders. [43984/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 93. To ask the Taoiseach if he will publish an up-to-date audit of the number and proportion of people with disabilities who are in employment, broken down by sector and region, to allow measurement of progress on closing the disability employment gap, and to provide comparable data to that published in Northern Ireland through NISRA. [49701/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 245. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to launch a national employer awareness campaign on supported employment, with associated benefits and financial incentives for employers similar to the Workable NI model, to encourage the recruitment and retention of people with disabilities in line with Government targets under the Comprehensive Employment Strategy; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to alter the eligibility criteria for the local authority home loan where long-term State benefit payments may only be considered as repayment income where more than 50% of the income source is of an earned nature, to allow two applicants on long-term State benefit payments to avail of the scheme; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will ensure that the Pathways to Work strategy includes dedicated funding for disability-related transport costs, beyond the free travel scheme, to reflect additional costs faced by persons with disabilities, including those in rural areas, and to provide parity with the Access to Work (NI) scheme, which covers extra...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider funding and resourcing a national umbrella organisation for supported employment, to provide staff training, best practice standards, policy development and coordination between supported employment service providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49700/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 528. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding status for SOS Kilkenny’s respite services; to outline when the funding that has been promised will be released; the way in which his Department will ensure sustainable, multi-annual funding for specialist respite provision for people with intellectual disabilities in Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 529. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has assessed the resource needs of Ukrainian organisations in Ireland working on integration, mental health support and community development; if she will consider multi-annual funding mechanisms to ensure continuity and sustainability of these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49705/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 624. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand the availability of free HRT products beyond the treatment of menopause symptoms to transgender people as part of gender-affirming healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49933/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 720. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department will outline the funding streams currently available to Ukrainian-led community organisations to support integration initiatives, including language classes, employment support and cultural exchange projects; and if consideration will be given to developing a ring-fenced fund for migrant-led organisations to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the report on benchmarking and indexing working age social protection rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50573/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend automatic entitlement to the household benefits package, the fuel allowance payment, and the additional needs payment to anyone living with a life-limiting cancer diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50572/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to expand the criteria of the occupational injuries benefit scheme to include healthcare workers suffering with long Covid symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50571/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current staffing levels at a service (details supplied); the catchment area served; if it extends beyond County Cork; and her plans for further investment in staffing levels. [50947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of young persons attending a service (details supplied); and the average number attending on a daily basis. [50948/25]

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank all of the witnesses for being here. Their statements are really instructive and enlightening for us. They are very powerful and moving as well. Mr. O'Neill summed up so much about where we are at in respect of inclusive education when he said in his statement, "No child's ... education should depend on charity or chance". I really salute his hard-hitting commentary about the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: It sounds like it is all so disjointed, that you have to be social entrepreneurs and project managers as well as teachers and principals at the same time.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: It is very difficult to have peace of mind every year, because while it sounds like Mr. O'Neill has been very successful in that there is necessarily uncertainty as to whether he will achieve that next year or the year after.