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Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case, as per media reports, that a plan to evacuate eighteen seriously ill children from Gaza to Ireland for potentially life-saving treatment has stalled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38639/25]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: We are finished with Deputy Doherty's clickbait. Good man. We will move on. My question is about the NESC. This is obviously budgeted from last year, but I am looking towards the future as to what is planned for next year for the NESC and its works. I am looking at its subgroups and what Deputy Ged Nash spoke about earlier, including child poverty and disability. I know there has been a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Going on the very important subcommittees of the Department of the Taoiseach, and looking at the extra staff or personnel or expertise the Taoiseach is bringing in, in particular on the disability committee, the costs that are involved in those experts obviously come out of the Department. Is the Department hiring in those experts?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I refer specifically to the disability group because, as I said, it is a hugely important part of our programme for Government. We want to make huge changes right across all of government as to how we deal with disabilities and support people. How are the experts being supported in coming in to give the Taoiseach advice on that subcommittee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Taoiseach. My question relates to the EU Presidency. It is a huge opportunity for Ireland to make our mark on Europe as we go through CAP. Changes are needed in the areas of CAP, disabilities and cancer care; there is so much we can do and highlight. The Taoiseach mentioned in his statement strategic goals and aims of the Presidency. Does Ireland have much leeway in what we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: That is for another day. I am a huge fan of the shared island unit. It has done incredible work. North Louth has been a major recipient of funding. In the second term of the shared island unit, has there been a review of the impact of what has been done? There has been so much infrastructure. How do we bring it into schools? I propose a BT Young Scientist-type project for schools for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The loop of the lough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I was not talking about science. I am talking about the future of the island on that sort of scale and that idea. The youth dialogue reaches only certain people but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Peace funds never hit Bush Post Primary School when I was younger. There were never any cross-Border initiatives. We were the nearest secondary school to the Border, yet we were never included and our voices were never there even though we were part of the conversation, or should have been part. My whole thing is to bring it right down to each school. It would be up to schools if they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Gabhaim buíochas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: They are a moveable feast.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: We have no apologies. You are all very welcome, and I ask anyone joining remotely to mute himself or herself when not contributing so that we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are on silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that, in order...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister. We do not have an agreed speaking rota for the select committee in the way we do for the joint committee. On that basis, I propose that members indicate if they wish to contribute and I will call them in the order of the lámha suas. Furthermore, I also ask that members refer to the relevant subhead from the briefing document provided by the Department when asking...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The Deputy will have to leave time for the Minister to reply.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister for being here. As regards the capital investment into further and higher education facilities, local to me, in County Louth, we have Ó Fiaich College in Drogheda and DKIT, but because of the success of the further education sector, because what it is doing is really good, there are a great many more people wanting to go into the advanced entry courses, the fees for...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: On a slightly separate issue but one that goes to the core of accessibility, the European Accessibility Act came into effect for all public bodies and for everybody on 28 June. Has there been interaction between the Department and the education bodies in making sure that everything is accessible, that we are not charged and fined under the Act for not having an accessible website, let us say?

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Sorry, I am referring to technology and their courses and all their offerings.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Yes, please. That would be great. Thank you.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: As a follow-up to that on accessibility of courses for students with disabilities, I hear there are fantastic offices in each higher education institution. They do an awful lot of work and they are getting a lot of resources. Resources are tight in the further education sector and I hear from tutors and the principals in the FET institutions that there are limits to what they are able to...