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Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Deputy Toole. Whoever wants to answer that one may do so. On the Deputy's query about the NTPF, that is something we can discuss in private session and if the committee agrees, we can take action on that.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I understand that all the witnesses' submissions from the previous committee have been published anyway so we do have access to all of those. This committee can access any correspondence that came into the previous committee as well by request from members.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: Next is Deputy Ó Murchú who will be followed by Senator Margaret Murphy O'Mahony. They both have six minutes.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Senator. Everybody has contributed who wanted to contribute. If the witnesses wish to, they can make a final comment before we finish.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: In the DPO Network's opening statement there was a request for that. It will be considered by the committee and we will come back to Mr. Sherwin on that. The next speaker is Senator Murphy O'Mahony.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: That concludes our consideration of the matter for today. I thank everybody for the very insightful contributions we had. At members' request, we will now go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Prison Service (11 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the secure unit allowance to be extended to all teachers teaching in both closed medium and high security prisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30900/25]

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

Maurice Quinlivan: The Minister of State and I both come from the Limerick City constituency. Before I came to the Chamber, I listened in my office to what he said. I was surprised. As he knows, we officially have 220 boarded-up council houses, of which 62, or 28%, have been boarded up for more than a year. He knows that because he has seen it. Across the city, Ballynanty, Kileely, Thomondgate, Moyross and...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: We are in a housing emergency. This is an ongoing crisis that this and previous Governments have failed to come to grips with. They have not even acknowledged the scale of the crisis they have delivered to us. Later this evening we will debate a motion on the huge number of vacant council homes that lie derelict, but this crisis extends far beyond that. Renters face extremely high rents...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1360. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the two early intervention, in psychosis teams promised for Limerick and Dublin in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29346/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1361. To ask the Minister for Health when the two early intervention, in psychosis teams promised for Limerick and Dublin in Budget 2025 will be opened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29347/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1362. To ask the Minister for Health the funding has been allocated for the two early intervention, in psychosis teams promised for Limerick and Dublin in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29348/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1363. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing that will be allocated for the two early intervention, in psychosis teams promised for Limerick and Dublin in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29349/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1587. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to address the lack of anaesthesiology consultants assigned to the HSE mid-west, appreciating that the region has the lowest number of such consultants in any of the HSE regions per 100,000 of the population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30347/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1588. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to address the lack of obstetrics and gynaecology consultants assigned to the HSE mid-west, appreciating that the region has the lowest number of such consultants in any of the HSE regions per 100,000 of the population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30348/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1589. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to address the lack of pathology consultants assigned to the HSE mid-west, appreciating that the region has the lowest number of such consultants in any of the HSE regions per 100,000 of the population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30349/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1590. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to address the lack of psychiatry consultants assigned to the HSE mid-west, appreciating that the region has the lowest number of such consultants in any of the HSE regions per 100,000 of the population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1591. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to address the lack of radiology consultants assigned to the HSE mid-west, appreciating that the region has the lowest number of such consultants in any of the HSE regions per 100,000 of the population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30351/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1592. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to address the lack of surgery consultants assigned to the HSE mid-west, appreciating that the region has the lowest number of such consultants in any of the HSE regions per 100,000 of the population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30352/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I raise the issue of criminal gangs in Limerick, which I have previously raised on a number of occasions. There is an ongoing feud in the Ballinacurra-Weston area on the southside of the city. We also have an ongoing issue in the King's Island area. In fairness to the Government, it has in the past put resources into the King's Island area under Operation Cobalt, Operation Croí and...