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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position with a new rural link service in County Kildare (details supplied); the expected timeframe involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38865/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position with a new bus service in County Kildare (details supplied); the expected start date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38866/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance the up-to-date position with a VAT repayment from a grant for a person in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38863/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Prisoners Abroad (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an Irish citizen currently incarcerated in a French prison (details supplied); and the status of transferring the prisoner to serve out their time in an Irish prison. [38862/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: School Funding (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine a case for funding for a school (details supplied). [38790/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 494. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can avail of a compensation measure to confirm their nursing qualifications; the opportunities available to them to complete this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38864/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 495. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position on the provision of a new hospital in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 590. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the up-to-date position with a project in County Kildare (details supplied); the expected completion date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38867/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on a waiting list for early learning and care and school-age childcare services, by county. [38914/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: How many people, by county, are waiting for childcare places at this time across each of the offerings being provided by the Minister's Department? I ask for that information to be given in tabular form, with a county-by-county breakdown.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I ask that the Minister read out the data for Cork. We will start there.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate that the Minister stated percentage increases but I do not see any hard figures. All of us in the Opposition rely on hard figures. I appreciate the point the Minister is making, if I am reading him correctly, that it is not possible to give an exact top-line figure for the number of people waiting. However, it is clear from the running theme in the questions so far this...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: It would be useful if the Minister could furnish me with the reply and the breakdown by county in numerical form as opposed to percentage increase form. I reiterate the point I made on the movement towards a public model. The Taoiseach, on 11 September, stated, “I want childcare to be part of the public education system”. That is the Taoiseach saying that. He also said...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: He is the Taoiseach of the country.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: On the point Deputy Kerrane makes, in his public utterances I perceive that the Minister is very cautious about saying anything overt about the need for a public, State-funded model. We all acknowledge the incremental progress that has been made as regards the supports provided by the State. Where is the Minister's thinking, based on the Taoiseach's comments, around the idea that we align...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I do not want to cause a row, and I accept that the Minister sets out his party's view, but, with all due respect to him, he is here as the Minister, so what is the Minister's view? With all due respect to him, it is not a matter for me what the Minister's position is as leader of a party. I am asking the question to the Minister of the day about a publicly funded model.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Can the Minister not separate the two roles?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 15. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of moving the entire childcare system into a public State model operated by the Department of Education, segmented by staff costs, capital costs and provider acquisition costs. [38911/24]