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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Can we write to him to invite him?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 9. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff who will be impacted by new wage agreements in early years education. [15717/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: What have been the benefits and the number of people affected by the implementation of the employment regulation order, ERO? How many have benefitted from the new wage structures?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Perversely, the raising of standards of living for people working in the sector has had a negative impact on those providing community services under the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme. I have been contacted by one such provider of long standing who tells me the increase in wages has had a serious impact on her core funding, such that her ability to pay everybody equally in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome that. I was not aware of it. If that is the position and if I have a case of a sessional service where there is an impact on core funding and it has not engaged with the independent process, is it possible for me to refer that directly in at this late stage?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We are within the time and I have another question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: This service has a long-standing fantastic reputation with very genuine people and is community minded. If I may ask on behalf of this particular service, if at all possible will the Minister continue to engage with me on it? It is reflective of many other services that may not have come into the Minister's process. For the record, I acknowledge the Minister's nod of assent in response.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We spoke about CDNTs earlier in a question I raised. To give the Minister a further prospective on CHO4, which is my area, it has a caseload of 555 children and the number of staff available is 13.5%. There is a vacancy rate of 38%. The number of therapeutic hours available according to a report issued recently stands at 5,815 per annum. The end result is that there is a mere 10.4 hours...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 17. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers that have exited the ECCE scheme since 2022. [15716/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: How many childcare providers have exited the ECCE scheme since 2022?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Notwithstanding those figures, does the Minister acknowledge that fact that more and more providers now are not able to provide services because there is a recruitment of staff issue? I am aware of one situation in my own neck of the woods in north Cork. One provider contacted me to say she simply cannot hire additional staff and that then has a knock-on effect. The effect is reduced ECCE...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 45. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress being made to regularise childminders into Government supports. [15718/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 53. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine additional payments for foster carers in order to recruit more foster carers into the system. [15715/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: You were.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget line and parameters to secure a second bus depot in Cork city, in tabular form. [17255/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of costs incurred to date for the BusConnects Cork public consultations, by vendor and staff costs, in tabular form. [17091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a business case has been presented on the light rail proposal for Cork; and the cost of that project to date, in tabular form. [17093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of EV chargers currently operating. [17128/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional resources which will be given to each test centre to alleviate waiting list times; and the waiting time and number of applicants by age in each test centre, in tabular form. [17129/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received any business plans or proposals to reinstate Buttevant train station as part of active travel plans in the M20 project or other rail projects; and if so, the estimated cost of same. [17585/23]