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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: There were no new bus services and limited enhancement of the existing ones. Last week, the Green Party had a motion calling on the Government not to put the brakes on progress, but under a Green Party Minister, our community saw a decline in the reliability of its services. I am depending on the Minister to take the opportunity to change that. While BusConnects is promoted as a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: Since the Minister took office, he has placed a significant focus on increased Garda visibility in Dublin city centre, part of which he represents as a constituency TD. His prioritisation of the city centre seems to be working, and I say "well done" on that, but there is the rest of the country and what about the rest of Dublin? It is not the first time I have raised this issue....

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: I welcome the witnesses. I very much value the work they do in promoting the rights and welfare of children. Their role is essential. The interventions they make on issues are important. I am new to this committee, but I want to ask an opening question about their journey over the past 20 years. How have the issues changed or not changed over the past 20 years? They have referenced...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: Given the breadth of what the ombudsman does, can I ask about resources?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: Does Dr. Muldoon think there is better awareness of children's rights now?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: The ombudsman's office has empowered and is empowering parents and children. It is holding organisations to account. He has said that education is the biggest issue that comes up. How much of a distraction is the annual scramble for school places for children with additional needs when we need to focus on an inclusive education system? Does the ombudsman have any views on planning for...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: It is rejection.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: It is lovely to see the Minister again. I have four questions and I hope I manage to get through them all. The first one, which will be no surprise to the Minister, is in relation to a five-year forward plan for the delivery of special education classes and places in special schools. We are in a yearly cycle of delivering places for children with additional needs. Work is under way to...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: That is an essential and practical reform that the Minister could implement. The deadline that we are introducing is 1 October and I spoke yesterday about the need for a communications campaign to tell parents that they will be asked to notify the NCSE by that date. Is the communications campaign factored into the Department's budget?

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: That is good to hear. I worked in advertising and marketing for 15 years. This requires a widespread public information campaign, not just through the NCSE. When parents are securing places for their children in primary school, they may not be familiar with the role of the NCSE. A general public information campaign should be supported. My next question echoes what I raised with the...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: And allowances.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister for listening last week and taking that on board. My next question relates to youth funding. It is startling to see that 1% of the entire budget is for youth. The Minister referenced an increase of more than 9%, to €90 million. In 2023, The Wheel told us youth funding was down 16% compared with 2008, a shortfall of €15 million that has never been made...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Bodies (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set-out his Department's engagement and collaboration with an organisation (details supplied), including participation in advisory bodies and committees, and on trade missions; his views on how the work of the organisation could be further supported by Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34582/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set out his plans to provide additional funding and to introduce changes to policy in order to support the new IDA Strategy 2025-2029; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34583/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has examined the capabilities of Irish food and drink SMEs to implement market diversification, particularly in non-English speaking markets; if new measures are being considered to support Irish business to enhance the necessary capabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34584/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the 2025 funding allocation for the National Genetics and Genomics Office on a full-year basis; the 2025 funding allocation for the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland 2022 on a full-year basis; the funding required to implement the strategy in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34580/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 183. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully on-site, hybrid, or fully remote from 2022 to date, in tabular form [33511/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with an organisation (details supplied) regarding its pre-Budget 2026 submission; if his Department has assessed the merit of its pre-Budget 2026 submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34283/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance on options to extend tax relief to more commuters and more modes of sustainable transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34284/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 318. To ask the Minister for Finance for a detailed update on the work of the Revenue Commissioners and JATF in addressing cross-Border smuggling of tobacco products from Northern Ireland; the details of the number of searches and seizures carried-out in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34278/25]