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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: With respect, Kilmore only got four lines in the reply. That is not on the Minister of State - he was given that to read. This was a specific question about a specific area where we feel we are going around in circles. We have been engaging with Dublin City Council and officials. We are asking for support from the Minister of State’s Department to get this over the line. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: St. Luke's Youth Club and community centre in Kilmore West has been closed since 2023. The centre was used by many groups within the community, from football clubs to ladies groups and summer projects. In 2023, I contacted Dublin City Council, DCC, regarding the closure of the building. I received an email - I have it here for the Minister of State - informing me that a report into the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: What about the GPO?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: The GPO.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Shameful.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Fianna Fáil sits by and says nothing.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Fianna Fáil stands by.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 187. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify if it is considered best practice that all pancreatic cancer patients, regardless of family history, receive genetic testing to identify and detect a possible inherited predisposition to such cancer in close family relatives; if she will clarify the timeline between a referral for such testing and the actual test being conducted; and if she will...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Irish people living in the North can stand for the Presidency and serve as President, as Mary McAleese did, but cannot vote for the President if they live in the Six Counties. That unfairness is at the heart of this motion. We recently saw the Assembly support the call to extend voting rights to all of Ireland. The President is the representative of the Irish nation, and that nation does...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I, like so many others who watched that "Prime Time" programme, found it very disturbing and upsetting. Our older citizens who are in nursing homes deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Frankly, there is no excuse for what we witnessed on our television screens. I cannot imagine the upset this programme generated for families across this State, with people wondering if their...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (24 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 364. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will approve the proposed Contract Cleaning Joint Labour Committee proposal for an Employment Regulation Order (27th February 2025) to increase pay in the sector to €14.10 per-hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34241/25]

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

Denise Mitchell: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the allocation of teaching resources at a school (details supplied) has been reduced; if she is aware that this reduction will result in class sizes of over 35 pupils; to clarify what reductions have been made to the special education teaching resources of the school, and the reasoning why; if these reductions can be reversed; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will ensure a school (details supplied) has funding for an extra teacher; if she is aware that two second classes are to be merged into one resulting in a class size of 34 students; the measures she is taking to reduce class sizes to ensure children get the appropriate attention they need; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (18 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will engage directly with a school (details supplied) in terms of sanctioning a home school community liaison post for the school in order to help increase attendance, retention targets and educational outcomes among students and ease the administrative burden on the principal and staff; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the 1,600 additional special needs assistant posts announced in Budget 2025 have been awarded; if these 1,600 posts are all full-time posts and, if not, to provide a breakdown of the posts and their hours; the status of recruitment to fill these posts; when the SNA allocations for the 2025-2026 school year will be publicly announced by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will engage as a matter of urgency with a school (details supplied) in relation to the allocation of an extra special needs assistant, which is required for a student in an ASD class for the coming school year; if there is any cap or freeze on the recruitment of special needs assistants; if so to, the specific criteria being...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: We did not just wake up in this housing crisis; it has been going on for decades. We have seen plan after plan. Does the Minister remember rebuilding Ireland? That failed. Now we have Housing for All. In the meantime, and while this plan is going on, we have longer housing lists, people waiting to be housed, more unaffordable housing and record homelessness. Like many people outside the...

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

Denise Mitchell: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of taxis in the Dublin area that are wheelchair accessible; what is being done to increase the number of wheelchair accessible taxis in the fleet; if he is aware of any issues preventing more taxi drivers from operating wheelchair accessible vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32287/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options available to those workers suffering with effects of long Covid and currently availing of special leave with pay for Covid-19 when this scheme comes to an end on 30 June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32630/25]

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: There is nothing more disgraceful than knowing we have thousands of families and children homeless or in insecure accommodation while we have thousands of empty council homes around the country boarded up and left to rot. We constantly hear the Government saying that bringing vacant properties back into use is key to tackling the housing crisis and yet we have over 2,600 council houses...