Results 41-60 of 994 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 112. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on progressing employment regulation orders to attract and retain early years educators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16273/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the exclusion of capital expenditure when assessing the profitability of childcare service providers; if this practice will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16267/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has, since taking office, examined the current overall funding model for formal childcare services in Ireland; if she believes that the model requires reform; if it will be formally reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16268/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the overall breakdown of State, parent and other expenditure in the childcare sector in Ireland, each year from 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025, including total overall expenditure, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16269/25]

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: Sinn Féin likes to talk up the new combined Opposition but what in fact we are getting is combined obstructionism, a calculated web of chaos to undermine the legitimacy of government, where even staff and clerks of the Dáil are fair game. However, what else would you expect from a party that for decades refused to recognise this House and opposed this State – experts at...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 53. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure will next meet. [12073/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is liaising with insurance industry representatives to ensure the timely commencement of insurance related provisions of the Road Traffic And Roads Act 2023 that will give insurers access to real time data on driver disqualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15175/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is liaising with Gardaí to ensure the timely commencement of insurance-related provisions of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the driver file record database to hold all the necessary details, including the unique driver number of all drivers disqualified, for Gardaí and motor insurers to access that data in real time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 19 March 2025, if the updated information that An Garda Siochana receive on a daily basis on named drivers includes the unique driver number of each driver named on a policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15202/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of court disqualifications each year from 2020 to 2024; the number of disqualifications that could not be matched to the appropriate record; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15178/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposed timeframe for the National Vehicle and Driver File Bill 2024 to be passed into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15180/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 19 March 2025, the number of motor insurers and brokers registered with the Central Bank of Ireland and an organisation (details supplied); the number that have successfully applied and signed the data sharing agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15201/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all necessary data-sharing agreements and the relevant contracts have been agreed and signed, to provide the motor insurance industry and Gardaí with real time data on driver disqualifications, under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for his Department to make the necessary changes to its ICT system to allow motor insurers access real time driver disqualification data, under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023; the reason for the delays to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: 292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for organisations (details supplied) to make the necessary changes to their ICT systems that are required for access to his Departments driver file database to real time data on driver disqualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15205/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. This is a question that she raised today during Questions on Policy or Legislation. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Cummins, for being here, and I thank the Minister of State with responsibility for special education, who cannot be here, in advance for his written response. I hope that, based on this, he can meet us and other Deputies about...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: I want to acknowledge how significant that sentence in the written response is. I take the Minister of State's point that more reading classes for children with dyslexia would be a positive step to support their educational needs, because there has been a policy of not opening reading classes and reading schools. Parents are having to fight for those places and then have to travel very long...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline plans to progress college places to assist in the workforce planning of disability services. [13715/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 111. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to progress work on a strategy for suburban Dublin villages including schemes that are similar to those available for rural Dublin villages. [13721/25]