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Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We should take those schools. They belong to the taxpayer and should be open.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I want to read something out, which is why I am looking at my phone. This message from two weeks ago is from a child doing rapid prompting method, RPM, therapy who had never communicated.: One day I went to see a shark with school. It was fun swimming in the shark tank. The shark nibbled my toes. I screamed and the shark swam away. The shark threw the nine students in the tank. The...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I refer to the connection between the AIM programme for the preschool being in a different Department and the Minister of State in special education, the crossover and knowing the numbers coming into the system. Regarding the Middletown Centre, I was just speaking to its representatives at the Autism Europe Congress 2025, we had them in at our committee and we visited the centre. I do not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 2057. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); if consideration will be given to expediting the appointment in light of their individual circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44497/25]

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: This strategy sets out a whole-of-government approach to disability. Individual Departments and State agencies are responsible for delivering on these commitments. I am just going to read into the record these individual commitments. They are that: We will create a more inclusive educational system for disabled children and young people that will respect the rights of everyone to choose...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We as a Government will be judged on delivering each one of these commitments. I ask that the Government put every resource possible into doing so, and I know it will. I know the commitment is there to ensure we deliver on all these commitments.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the National Transport Authority and Íarnród Éireann to extend the Leap card system to Mullingar, Edgeworthstown and Longford stations given the significant fare discrepancies that currently exist for commuters; if he will acknowledge that this situation places an unfair financial burden on these...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing a reduced toll rate or commuter discount scheme for regular users of the M4 motorway (details supplied) similar to the arrangements in place on the M50, given the significant financial burden on daily commuters travelling to Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 603. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to examine the case for reviewing the current level of State funding to intercounty GAA players (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48028/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Psychological Assessments (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 988. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting an assessment of need in primary care in County Longford for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48453/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1263. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to reduce current waiting times for children requiring orthodontic treatment, given reports that waiting times are now estimated at up to four years; her plans to introduce a specific initiative to address these delays; if she will confirm whether vacant dental and orthodontic posts are being actively recruited to; if agency staff...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1261. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases in County Longford which have been moved from disability services to primary care in 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48454/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1262. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for transferring cases from disability services to primary care in County Longford in 2023 and 2024; the impact on waiting lists and service delivery for both disability services and primary care in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48455/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will urgently review the case of a Leaving Certificate student (details supplied); if flexibility or discretionary measures can be applied in such exceptional cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47957/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if consideration is being given to holding specific recruitment campaigns for people in other sectors and in mid- and later-career stages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (18 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 366. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the introduction of a free shingles vaccine for older people, in particular those over 66 years-of-age, in line with best practice in other European countries; if her Department has carried out an assessment of the health and cost benefits of a national shingles vaccination programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 24 September 2025.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the Chair for his indulgence. I welcome Mr. Brady, whom I know a long number of years. I have a quick question. I chair the housing committee. Mr. Brady talked about incentives for developers. Both of us are from County Longford. We got blighted with section 23. We are short of housing. Up until recently there had not been any private development in County Longford since 2008....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: The programme for Government is supportive of the provision of family resource centres which provide community development and family support services in towns throughout the country. Longford town has a population of 10,000. It has the highest truancy levels in the State by population. It has the highest number of referrals to Tusla and it has the most diverse population in the country....