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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of the cycle lane on route R448, Moone to Timolin, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45293/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations of cycle lanes provided, or under construction, by TII since the beginning of 2025; the cost of these lanes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45294/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the safety guidelines in use for the provision of cycle lanes in the State; when these regulations were last updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45295/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a child with additional needs requiring a school placement (details supplied) [44617/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a child with additional needs requiring a school placement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44618/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 973. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school bus routes in Kildare (details supplied) will be going ahead this school term; and if so, the timeline for when these routes will be operational. [46591/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 1999. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated average capital cost and current expenditure operating cost respectively, of providing each new publicly provided residential care place for children in the care of Tusla; for a breakdown of staffing costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46884/25]

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the national human rights strategy for disabled people. Of course, it has long been awaited and many disability organisations have been campaigning for its publication. It is the first strategy since Ireland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was way back in 2018. I welcome the fact, as the Minister herself...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank Deputy Kenny for sharing his time. I also thank Sinn Féin for tabling this very important motion. In recent months not a week has gone by when my office has not received calls from worried parents looking for a special school place for their children. I am worried about the numbers the Minister of State has given us this evening. Like other colleagues, I am dealing with at...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank Deputy Eoghan Kenny for affording me the opportunity to raise a number of matters. I welcome that the Minister of State is before us this evening. Like many Deputies here today, I have been inundated with queries from worried parents who are struggling to get answers from Bus Éireann on their children's school bus places. In many cases, parents were contacted a week or two...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 2. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans for introducing a right to respite for family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50022/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I think everyone in this House can agree that family carers right across the State do an outstanding job 24-7. I would, as I am sure the family carers would, love to hear the Minister's plans to introduce respite for those family carers.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I appreciate the Minister's reply. As I said in my introduction, we are all aware of the great work of family carers, what they do for the State and the €20 billion they save the State every year. However, as the Minister said in her reply, they need a break, something we all can agree on. Today I attended the family carers' pre-budget presentation. One of the issues for the people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: One of the areas I want to concentrate on tonight is emergency care. I have come across a number of cases recently where family carers need that respite care in an emergency situation. I know that Family Carers Ireland has been providing such a service for a number of years and it tells us that that service is underfunded. I ask the Minister tonight to consider through the budget...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: 13. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans for introducing a reimbursement scheme for families who have had to pay for private therapies for their child due to long waiting lists for public services. [50027/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: We are all aware - and it has been discussed already tonight - of the length of waiting lists of families waiting for therapies in this country. I ask the Minister of State to address the House tonight on any plans she may have for a reimbursement scheme for families who have had to pay privately for their child due to these long waiting lists.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank the Minister of State. I am all for public services and I welcome the fact the Minister of State is chasing down the maximum number of public services we can and increasing the number of consultants and clinicians we have in that area. Unfortunately, too many families are waiting too long for those much-needed services for speech and language, OT, physiotherapy or whatever their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I always welcome the Minister of State finishing with a question like that. I am going to use the opportunity once again to raise Sensational Kids, a new building in Kildare town. I am sure the Minister of State is aware of this particular building. It remains unbuilt since November 2024. This building could have allowed up to 300 children per week in the greater Kildare and Leinster area...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the number of children in consistent poverty nearly doubled in 2024 to 8.5 per cent, rising by over 45,000 in one year to 104,780, up from 4.7 per cent in 2023; — the research by Economic and Social Research Institute shows one in five children, over 225,000, live in families below the poverty line when housing costs...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Mark Wall: I hope that is something we can all agree on in this House. An eviction ban on cases where children are involved should help to provide some respite for the many households that are struggling. We can help to protect future generations and that would lead to a long-lasting, positive outcome for Ireland's young people. The eviction ban during the Covid-19 pandemic prevented people entering...