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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister will be aware SIPTU is raising concerns about the fact the talks have been ongoing for a number of months and it feels there is a gap between the providers and those representing the early years educators and managers in the childcare settings. It is really important. It is good we have had the opportunity here this evening to make that call and to ask for the joint labour...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 87. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on ongoing pay talks for early years educators. [21194/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I ask for an update on the ongoing talks on pay, particularly regarding the €45 million announced in budget 2025 that will be ring-fenced for pay for our early years educators.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. There was something really stark in the response to the report's publication. Usually, we would be shocked by such failures and grave injustices but on the back of this report's publication, we saw widespread disbelief and disappointment concerning what the report was all about. It took a very long time to conclude the report - eight years - and it has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I appreciate the steps the Minister has taken and the work that will be undertaken on the back of the report specific to this case, and rightly so, as that needs to be done, but I also want to impress on the Minister the need to look at the care system today. The Children's Residential and Aftercare Voluntary Association has repeatedly called for a review of Ireland's care system. It has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to the finding of the final substantive report of the commission of investigation into certain matters relative to a disability service in the south east and related matters, also known as the Farrelly commission, volumes 1 and 2; and the planned next steps in response. [21193/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister to respond to the report of the Farrelly commission into what has usually been termed the Grace case. More importantly, I want to know what the Minister's next steps will be and what she plans to do in response. I appreciate that much of this is HSE-related and there are a lot of questions for the HSE to answer. We are reminded that when Grace was failed in the first...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I will raise a number of points about all of this as a TD who has been contacted by a number of parents who have received letters informing them that the surgery that took place on their very young children may not actually have been necessary. I will refer first to the timeline. On Thursday, 13 March, The Ditch published an article providing details of what it said was the external report...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 253. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek the removal of coarse fishing from the permit for anglers on the River Suck, given coarse fishing is free everywhere else, and the impact it is having on tourism and competitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19074/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on a visa application (details supplied) for a person who was granted a work permit five months ago under critical skills class; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19209/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children being accommodated in domestic violence refuges in 2022, 2023 and 2024, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19875/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1830. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to advise what will happen to residents (details supplied) once their time is up; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19208/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1856. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown in quintiles of the percentage cost of wages for the following type of private early childhood and school age services, multi-service provider, full-time, part time, sessional and afterschool, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19760/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1857. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown in quintiles of the percentage cost of wages for the following type of community early childhood and school age services, multi-service provider, full-time, part time, sessional, afterschool, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19761/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1866. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any other grant funding outside of Building Blocks provided via Pobal or any other agency for new builds for childcare facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19804/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1868. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report on the collaborative work being undertaken by her Department and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the youth homeless strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19873/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1869. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report on the proposed changes to Tusla's aftercare services for young people leaving State care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19874/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1965. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a timeline for the Programme for Government commitment to review and increase core funding, ensuring the fee cap is maintained and that the model is open, transparent and equitable, and that the early years educators in the private sector benefits from Employment Regulation Orders. [21195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to undertake a broad consultation and publish a detailed action plan to build an affordable, high-quality, accessible early childhood education and case system with State-led facilities adding capacity. [21196/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1967. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child through the national childcare scheme and explore options to cap costs for larger families. [21197/25]