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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 357. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on his Department's engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Tourism, and Employment on reaching an agreement to implement a resolution regarding the ICOB and power up grant appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33738/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 366. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, as part of preparation of the planned Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity, he has considered the proposals submitted by organisation (details supplied) on Irish business with digital compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 367. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set out the planned timeline and steps involved in preparation of a new life sciences strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34290/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 368. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has examined the capabilities of Irish businesses 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. [34292/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a timeline as to when she expects her Department to conduct a survey of primary school parents and guardians on their preferences on important aspects of school provision and choice; when she expects the results of this survey to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34082/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of STEM teachers in the secondary education system in each of the past ten years; the steps she is taking to increase the number of STEM teachers in line with the STEM Education Implementation Plan to 2026, and beyond, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34277/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Budgets (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has met with an organisation (details supplied) regarding its pre-Budget 2026 submission and associated position paper on supporting Irish business with digital compliance; if his Department has assessed the merit of its proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34286/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 868. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation to date of Report of the Review of the Governance Arrangements and the Resources currently in place to support the HSE reimbursement and pricing decision-making process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34287/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 869. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on planned initiatives to deliver on the Programme of Government commitment on "to ensuring that patients have access to new innovative new medicines and treatments as quickly as possible";; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34288/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 870. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation to date of ‘Digital for Care: A Digital Health Framework for Ireland 2024-2030’; to outline the current and capital funding provided for implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34289/25]

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State and the officials. They are very welcome. I thank the Minister of State for his engagement so far with the schools in Dublin 15 and Dublin West. I hope he will come again soon. Last year, Dublin 15, or Dublin West, was recognised as the hardest place in the country for a child with additional needs to get a school place. This year, how many children in...

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: My sense of it is that it is not as many as last year, but it is still a significant number. Today is an important day because many schools broke for the holidays. All the talk over the summer will be, “Where are you going to big school?” For those families, their life is on hold over the summer. It is a difficult time. I am dealing with parents who have done everything...

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: The Minister of State mentioned the new process and timings for next year. Will there be a big communications campaign regarding 1 October, when parents are to have notified the NCSE that they will require a place? October is the time when people only start to apply for schools.

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 306. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on her Department's engagement with the planning and building unit of the Department of Education and Youth, regarding the development of State-led childcare facilities in tandem with the school building programme; the number of meetings that have taken place; the dates when these meetings took place; the main findings...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Meetings (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 307. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the inception meeting held on 9 June 2025 concerning the review of the 2001 planning guidelines for local authorities on early learning and childcare settings; to summarise the key findings discussed; to outline when the next meeting is scheduled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Meetings (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 308. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the number of times the working group between her Department, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of Education and Youth has met from 2024 to date in 2025; the dates when these meetings took place; when the next meeting will take place; to outline the number of times the working...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I held a public meeting about the EPSEN Act in 2023 as part of the review. Like anything involving parents with children who have additional needs, it was an eye-opening experience. I thank all the parents who have reached out to me over the years. The most important question we need to ask is whether children are given equal access to education by the system which supports their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a proportion of the Rathbourne Wharf development, where 326 social houses and 399 cost-rental homes funded through CALF and CREEL, as cost-rental homes for essential workers in line with commitments in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35776/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide clarity on the funding provided to Fingal County Council for the tenant-in-situ scheme for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35777/25]