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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building (details supplied); the status of the appointment of a multi-disciplinary design team; the timeline for the overall project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the commitment in the Programme for Government that an independent assessment on the feasibility of removing the exclusion of drivers aged over 70 from the school transport scheme is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11824/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that a child (details supplied) has a place in an autism class or special school as soon as possible as recommended by their local children’s disability network team; the provisions being made to ensure children in the Balgriffin and Belmayne area of north Dublin will have access to a special school in the near future; when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 942. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the remediation scheme for fire safety defects in apartments and duplexes; when homeowners who already paid a fire remediation levy in respect of repairs to their own homes and complexes will see their remediation costs refunded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12262/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 1601. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reduce wait times for blood testing appointments at Beaumont Hospital; if it is possible to provide auxiliary capacity to reduce the waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11211/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: And Opposition.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Hear, hear.

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I welcome the Bill. The move to address a long-standing inequality in the law is positive. It is a pity that it took a court case to force the Government to make these changes. I commend Mr. O'Meara on taking that case. The loss of a loved partner is the same if a partner is married or unmarried. The grief felt by the family is the same and therefore the rights and entitlements should be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that CIÉ pensioners have had no increase in their pensions since 2008; if he intends to engage with CIÉ or the CIÉ active retirement group on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14664/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the parents of a child (details supplied) who has additional needs but has been unable to secure an appropriate place in a secondary school for this coming September, despite extensive engagement with the National Council for Special Education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14710/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if maternity hospitals are now routinely checking for the condition vasa praevia during the 20 week fetal scan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14712/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I want to be very clear; we need a special school. We have all been contacted by parents who are having to fight for their children to get appropriate places, and I want to make it very clear that we are all on the same page. The compromise solution put forward by Belmayne Educate Together, which will see a special school housed temporarily in its permanent building, makes sense. Nobody...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I echo what my constituency colleagues said. Will the Minister of State visit the school in order to see the difference between the prefabs to which he refers and what a permanent school building would offer? We need a timeline for the delivery of permanent accommodation. This is not the Minister of State’s brief; it is that of the Minister for Education. We need a timeline for...

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: If we want to divert young people from becoming involved in criminality, we need a dual approach. The first is ensuring young people have proper supports, services and amenities in their areas, that they have hope and that they feel they have the opportunity to meet their full potential regardless of their backgrounds. The second is that we need a community approach that steers young people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a place in a designated special school will be secured for a person for September 2025 for (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16000/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (2 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing a fair deal scheme application for a person (details supplied); if she is aware that this delay resulted in the expiration of the ten weeks of approved transitional care funding, resulting in this applicant’s family receiving a bill for over €12,000 in costs thus far; if the Minister will ensure this fair...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: The last thing households across this State need, in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, is another unfair bill. This proposal by Sinn Féin is very simple. It removes the option of this Government or any future governments to reimpose domestic water charges down the line. It is as simple as that. We all saw reports in the media last month that the Government was examining the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (9 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 135. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider the inclusion of a club (details supplied) on the list for the large scale sport infrastructure fund; if the club is included on the reserve list; the other grants or schemes that would be available to the club to renovate and modernise an old Catholic church which it has recently purchased for use as a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to allow those who have been made redundant since the beginning of 2025 to avail of the jobseeker's pay-related benefit scheme rather than just those made redundant since 31 March 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17653/25]