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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (25 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 808. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will consider extending the parameters of parental leave to include children between the ages of 12 and 18 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8033/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 807. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action she is taking to reduce the costs of childcare and of after-school care for parents who are being faced with huge increases in monthly costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8032/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (25 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 992. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills Education if he will engage with SUSI on its ‘applicant classes’ whereby students are required to be out of education for three years before they can be classified as independent (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (26 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address an issue regarding pensions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8413/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pensions (26 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the pension entitlements of a person that returned to work in the civil service at age 45 for 20 years and paid the B stamp for PRSI as they were not allowed to pay A stamp; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8276/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 270. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the payroll anomaly which has resulted in clinical placement co-ordinators not qualifying for the long service increment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8244/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Since the United Nations was founded, Ireland has stood steadfast for peace, multilateralism and acting only through a United Nations mandate. These have been core pillars of our international policy. This was something the Taoiseach used to recognise. He said attempts to dismantle the triple lock were "an out-of-touch ideological obsession on the part of Fine Gael which ignores the facts...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government is ripping up a multilateral approach. It absolutely is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It absolutely is. We have a multilateral approach and ripping up the triple lock would bring us into a unilateral approach. That is absolutely the case.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The UN mandate gives a legitimacy to peacekeeping missions which would be impossible to replace. The blue beret our troops have worn with pride offers them a huge level of protection, and instead of acknowledging that, the Government is undermining this. In the election, Fianna Fáil promised reform of the triple lock, not to tear it to shreds. Yet another election promise is in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is what the Taoiseach told the Dáil when he was in opposition: Earlier this year, the Minister for Defence signalled that he would try to water down Ireland's commitment to the triple lock, which is at the core of our neutrality. He presented the idea it was contradictory and that we were giving unsavoury countries a veto over our actions. This argument has been behind the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why has the Taoiseach capitulated to Fine Gael on this?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [6307/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the well-being of CIÉ pensioners. For decades, former CIÉ workers had their pension payments rise in line with wage increases. However, when the economic crash happened, CIÉ halted both pay and pension increases. While pay rises for current staff have been restored, pensioners have had their income frozen for over 16 years. This is leaving...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet [7945/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet. [9488/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I recently met the campaign group Access for All and one of the issues they raised with me was how the housing crisis is affecting disabled people in particular. As the Taoiseach will be aware, the Ombudsman has said that more than 1,200 disabled people under the age of 65 are living in nursing homes. Nursing homes are a completely unsuitable setting for younger people. It affects their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 33. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [7946/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach says there will have to be forward planning in the future. Why is that forward planning not taking place under this Government? Why did it not take place under the previous Government? The crisis in special education is simply getting worse under the Taoiseach's watch. There are now hundreds of parents who do not know if their children will have a school place in September....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Taoiseach see something wrong with parents who have a huge amount on their hands being cast into the role of project managing to try to get a school place for their child? There is something fundamentally wrong with that. What is the Taoiseach doing to sort this out? Parents should not be put in that situation. The Taoiseach said 400 special classes have been promised to be...