Results 381-400 of 681 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 660. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children and adolescents on the CAMHS psychology waiting-lists in each regional health area; the breakdown of the total number of months and years waiting; and the longest wait-time as of 1 April 2025, in tabular form. [28785/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (28 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a timeline for when the future of the basic income for the arts pilot scheme will be decided; when a decision will be made on a successor scheme to the pilot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27755/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Bodies (28 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the membership of the family justice implementation group. [27957/25]

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I commend Sinn Féin on its motion this evening. I fully support it. I will take the opportunity to say a few words about the occupied territories Bill and the remarkable journey this legislation has been on since 2018. It simply will not go away and this is in large part due to the incredible determination and forbearance of Senator Frances Black and her colleague Conor O'Neill....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (27 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 104. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the disability unit regarding funding commitments to the unit, staffing levels, consultation with disability groups and meetings of the unit that have been arranged to date. [26436/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (27 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 104. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the disability unit regarding funding commitments to the unit, staffing levels, consultation with disability groups and meetings of the unit that have been arranged to date. [26436/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for his response. I want to raise the particular example of Ballynoe in my constituency of Cork East where a former HSE dispensary building, a property owned by the State, has sat empty for several decades at least. Local residents believe it was last in use in the late 1970s or early 1980s but it has remained empty. It now sits boarded up with the gates locked and no...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for his encouraging response. I hope the Department will help the local community when it makes the application. On behalf of the community council in Ballynoe I have already been in touch with the HSE, which has indicated to me that it is its intention to sell the building. In line with the HSE property protocol and Department of public expenditure rules, it will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 66. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports available for the acquisition of buildings for community use to help the regeneration of rural towns and villages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26170/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: In villages and towns throughout Ireland, there are vacant or derelict properties that represent a blight on their locality. They are like husks of wasted potential, preventing residents from having local community centres or some form of social or commercial hub. Bringing these vacant and derelict properties back into use would support the revitalisation of rural Ireland. Will the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 106. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the schemes in place to help address loneliness and social isolation in rural areas and communities across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 247. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department has assessed the impact of the housing crisis on the Irish language, as native speakers are forced out of rural Gaeltacht areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26171/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (22 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 329. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the publication date of her Department's Disability Strategy. [26437/25]

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: Ministerial appointments by this Government have not generally filled me with joy but I was glad to hear the Minister of State would be taking up this role. It is clear he has a genuine love of nature and a wealth of knowledge to back it up that would put most of us to shame, so I welcome his appointment. Unfortunately, our trees and hedgerows have never been more in danger. The legal...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: In his magisterial meditation on the Holocaust, The Drowned and the Saved, Italian survivor Primo Levi detailed in a chapter “Useless Violence” some of the cruelties and deprivations to which the Nazis subjected the Jewish community of Europe prior to their murder in concentration camps. The term “useless violence” reflected the lack of any rationale, even in the...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I commend the Independent Technical Group on its motion before the House today. I welcome the discussion of issues that are of such fundamental importance in the pursuit of a fair and inclusive society, and in how we value or fail to value the lives of our disabled citizens and our elders and, essentially, who we are as a society and as a republic. In this context, the means test for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 177. To ask the Minister for Health for the projected costs of implementing the Mental Health Bill, including the cost of staffing that will be needed to expand the remit of the Mental Health Commission; and if there is a full funding commitment given by the Government to cover these costs. [26260/25]

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I pay tribute to Cara Darmody and her dad, Mark. I acknowledge the leadership Cara has shown in bringing us all here this evening with this collective motion. Clinical services and educational supports for children with additional needs and disabilities are in a dire state, directly resulting from years of poor planning and under-resourcing. All of this did not come about by chance....

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for her statement. Cara Darmody, a remarkable 14-year-old disability activist from Ardfinnan in County Tipperary, today began a 50-hour sleep-out on Kildare Street in front of Leinster House. Cara is taking this action to highlight the more than 15,000 young people in this country who are overdue an assessment of need. We hear from the HSE that this figure could reach...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the electric vehicle grant for taxis, hackneys and limousines (eSPSV) to include hybrid vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25371/25]