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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]

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 Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (8 Apr 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he had with authorities in Germany regarding the deportation of two Irish citizens [details supplied] in relation to their attendance at pro-Palestine protests despite those citizens not having been found guilty of any crime; if the Minister has liaised with the two Irish citizens or their representatives; and if he will...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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]

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

Denise Mitchell: And Opposition.

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

Denise Mitchell: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I want to raise the issue of policing. In Dublin Bay North, we have a very fast-growing population and Garda resources are already stretched. In 2019, the then Minister for Justice had a photo op outside Coolock Garda station, during which he announced a new station that would be a regional headquarters and would cover Belmayne, Clongriffin and the surrounding areas. This population is...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: The housing and homelessness crisis has been getting worse under successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments, so this decision to further restrict the tenant in situ scheme, which has prevented so many people from becoming homeless, is bizarre. On top of these new restrictions, we also have delays on applications going back months because the Government could not get its act...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Sanctions (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the suspension of economic sanctions by the European Union on Syria is appropriate given the latest instances of appalling violence being carried out by Syrian government security forces and affiliated militias against men, women and children of minority communities in western Syria; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the correspondence or discussions he has had with representatives of the Republic of Lithuania in relation to that country’s formal withdrawal from the Convention on Cluster Munitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12479/25]