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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 526. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanisms being put in place to allow businesses and representative organisations to make submissions to the proposed cost of business advisory forum on the regulatory and administrative costs affecting them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23458/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 1087. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of speech and language therapists currently employed within CHO 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23654/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 1126. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps her Department has taken to expand IVF support to those experiencing secondary infertility; the supports currently in place for secondary infertility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24012/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will next meet. [22485/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Emer Currie: The Minister for Justice has assured this House that his Department is finalising the regulations necessary for the local community safety partnerships to function. We really need to get them up and running as soon as possible. Dublin West is a big place. Key to the effectiveness of the local community safety partnerships is that they are indeed local. The problems facing Clonsilla are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will meet. [22486/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Emer Currie: I fear Dublin’s urban and suburban villages are getting left behind. As I raised with the Taoiseach previously, out of 150 new gardaí in March, just four came to the K district. The vast majority went to the city centre. The K district is one of the busiest policing districts in the country. Our Dublin West villages are too small for the Town Centre First policy and too big...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress in preparing for the impact of any new tariffs on Irish farmers and agrifood producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25607/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (20 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the agricultural sector in the most recent available full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (20 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to students who, for medical reasons, have accrued substantial absence; whether any additional supports exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25714/25]

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (21 May 2025)

Emer Currie: There is not a week that goes by that I am not contacted by a parent seeking access to childcare. On Monday, 1,500 new childcare places were announced nationally, funded under the national development plan's building blocks extension grant scheme. These places, at a cost of €25 million, include 18 much-needed places in Dublin West. This Government is delivering but it needs to keep...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (21 May 2025)

Emer Currie: I am the first to say there has been progress, but serious issues remain with capacity, access and core funding that need to be fixed. Today, I am hosting local childcare providers and parents in the audiovisual room. We will focus on a payscale that reflects qualifications and expertise, pressures they are facing with recruitment, making core funding work, especially for small providers...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (21 May 2025)

Emer Currie: -----as has the Taoiseach when I have raised them, but they want to hear from the Government about now-----

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (21 May 2025)

Emer Currie: -----not just about the future. They want to get back to building partnerships, starting with really listening.

Committee on Education and Youth: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Emer Currie: I offer my congratulations to the Cathaoirleach. I look forward to working with him and all the members of the committee. Education and schools are major issues in my constituency of Dublin West. I look forward to discussing these issues from local and national perspectives. My main aim is for us to have an education system where all children belong. This means tackling the existing...

Committee on Education and Youth: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Emer Currie: I want us to spend a significant amount of time on the youth aspect. Our youth system now has seen an increase in investment from the justice perspective but we have not seen the same investment in universal youth services. These are extremely important in our communities and for our families. There is also a good opportunity here for us to focus on early learning. I am looking forward to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (22 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider expanding third level course places related to therapies in the disability sector, as part of workforce planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26303/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (22 May 2025)

Emer Currie: I am asking for an update on the expansion of third level course places for therapies in the disability sector and the Minister's role in the workforce planning of therapists needed in children's disability network teams, CDNTs, primary care teams and schools. There has been much focus this week on assessments of need. The programme for Government and the report of the Joint Committee on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (22 May 2025)

Emer Currie: While there are issues with how our public services are designed, the greatest barrier disabled people face in accessing appropriate services is resourcing and understaffing across assessment of needs, therapeutic and clinical services, medical services and education services, all of which are necessary if our disabled community are to lead full lives with the experiences and opportunities...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (22 May 2025)

Emer Currie: I acknowledge the additional places and the work of the Tánaiste and of the former Minister in the Department, Deputy O'Donovan, in this area. However, I am really talking about long-term workforce planning and how it needs to be linked with collaboration and shared data. For instance, the Disability Capacity Review to 2032, published by the HSE, states that 3.5% of the child...