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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the median time to process carer’s allowance reviews and appeals currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22079/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (7 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine the case of ceased respite care for children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22092/25]

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. I commend the work of Dunboyne College of Further Education and the Youthreaches in County Meath. I am familiar with a number of them, including in Kells and Ashbourne. Along with Deputy Mary Lou McDonald and Councillor Maria White, I visited Laytown-Bettystown Youthreach last Friday and saw the really important work it does to...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I am a TD for the Meath East constituency. As long as I have been there, which is my whole life, a permanent feature has been Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in government here and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in government in Meath County Council. We have seen nothing but failure in terms of forward planning for critical infrastructure. For as long as I was a county councillor, and since...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Care Packages (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 117. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people issued with a home care package but unable to fulfil it due to staffing shortages, or other reasons, in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23593/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Care Packages (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I wish to ask the Minister the number of people issued with a home care package but unable to fulfil it due to staffing shortages or other reasons in 2024 and to date in 2025 and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Care Packages (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: It is significant. It is acknowledged that the figures are always very high. We are talking about millions of hours of home care packages and these are real services and important ones. We must always think about these things, though, in terms of unmet need. The system does not work if these services are not in place. Is there an analysis of whether there are specific geographical...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Care Packages (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Yes, I am.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Care Packages (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Some things are coming through these figures consistently. There is a pattern within them. I expect this would be the case if we were to look at the geographic variation. I know much of the challenge in CHO 8 concerns the fact that it is very difficult to get staff because it is exceptionally expensive to live in Dublin or the greater Dublin area. There is then a variation across the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (14 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 to give the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) the legislative remit to develop a code of practice for water service outages and to amend the Water Services Act 2014 to establish a dispute resolution mechanism for customer complaints regarding service interruptions...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (14 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The RSA has a statutory maximum target of ten weeks from the time a learner driver books their test until they are given a date to sit the test. The last time that target was reached was in July 2022, almost three years ago. Since then, as is evident across the State, things have got much worse. There are extended waiting times, a shortage of testers and a system that is failing both those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (15 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase funding for and expand youth diversion programmes in County Meath and more generally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23598/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered in County Meath in 2024 and to date in 2025; how that compares with targets; the ambition he has in terms of the numbers of affordable houses for County Meath in the years ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental housing units delivered in County Meath in 2024 and to date in 2025; how that compares with targets; the ambition he has in terms of cost rental for County Meath in the years ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23596/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the Meath division on 30 April 2025; the efforts he is making to increase the number of gardaí in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23597/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute hospital bed days that were lost due to the lack of availability of home care packages and availability of nursing home places, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23594/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Services (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 308. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the DAA, AirNav and the IAA are subject to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a course (details supplied) will be recommended for recognition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23209/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 May 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the comments made by Government colleagues regarding sacrament preparation outside of school time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23494/25]