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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Is Ms Maher saying that because of the dates on the invoicing which ensures-----

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

Paul McAuliffe: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the Oscar Traynor Road site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53890/25]

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

Paul McAuliffe: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his Department have been further advised by Dublin City Council on the time frame of delivery for the affordable purchase homes proposed for the Oscar Traynor Road site; if the homes are on track to be delivered during the first phase of delivery before the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 295. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the pay increase for early childhood educators as agreed in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53991/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Paternity Leave (8 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 296. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to extend and improve paternity leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54019/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (9 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality following the launch of a new awareness campaign in September 2025 targeting the misuse of illegal fireworks, if he will consider additional measures in the coming years to address the prevalence of illegal fireworks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54150/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (9 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review the anomaly in relation to driver licence renewals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54410/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 314. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 683 of 11 February 2025, to provide an update regarding a hip operation for a person (details supplied). [54258/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to go back to the figure Deputy Farrelly just referenced when he said he would hate to see the headline that it is costing €750,000 per child. However, it is costing €750,000 per child. My difficulty is that when we look at its overall budget, this could be nearly 3% of Tusla's entire budget on 51 children. The reason I raise this is because I know the huge pressures...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: It could be costing €400,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The comparison I am making is this. There were foster parents in Leinster House yesterday. They are getting in the region of €400 per week. I appreciate that different children will be deemed appropriate in different places. Those parents are saying that the amount of money they are receiving is insufficient for them to carry out their work. I know that Tusla, as an agency, is...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: They are short-term stays.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: There could be children in these placements for a year or two years.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Surely, for those children, it would be better to be in a family fostering environment.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The question is why they are not in a family fostering environment.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Is it that there is no family available or that they would not be suitable?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Let me ask both bodies a very simple question. Do they believe that by increasing the supports for foster care parents, we would reduce our reliance on these communal settings and the costs that result?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: That is the point I am making.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: By increasing the payment for foster care parents, we would reduce the cost of and the reliance on residential care.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Does the Department believe that is the case?