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Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: I welcome all of our guests this morning. They probably had an early start coming from Limerick. I thank the Cathaoirleach for flagging Corpus Christi in Moyross. I have received so much information that I have very few questions. I have a friend who works with the Early Focus group, Una Curran, who has given me a lot of background information over the years in general terms. I am...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: I am wondering how we can move forward because this is extremely powerful. There is a new committee in the Department of the Taoiseach. I cannot remember the title. Can we convene another meeting as a matter of urgency with the Minister, Deputy McEntee, the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Moynihan, and whoever is on that committee?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the Minister and his team. I have parachuted in here. I am normally at the disability matters committee but I have an interest in this. I have four questions and it would be great if they could be answered or followed up on later. The first is about the use of data and analysis. Will the use of cost-benefit and demographic data analyses, particularly for public transport...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: Education is a freedom and enabling children and teenagers to participate and achieve their own personal goals is of paramount importance. School transport is a significant part of that enablement. The Government has made great strides in the area of special education and the improvements include working with the NCSE to bring forward timelines, so I am wondering why in this area we still...

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: This is probably the most divisive issue in politics. It definitely deserves more frequent discussion. I have been requesting this discussion for the past six months, so I am grateful for my two minutes now. What will be Ireland's migration management plan for the positive net migration of 79,000 people to our country? How is Ireland's ability to cope in the following areas being...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: I welcome the publication of the strategy and, most important, the commitments within it because that, in effect, is the roadmap. It will, most definitely, underpin the work of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Disability Matters and it will be our reference point. Indeed, we are already taking elements of it and incorporating them into the work plan of the current term. Is the plan of...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: Good morning everybody and I apologise for being few minutes late. I thank the team for the preparation in advance of today and all of the documents. I thank the Minister of State for his updates. I will list off my queries. Could the members of the Minister of State's support team - the senior members of the Department - outline their roles and areas of responsibility? As a new TD, I am...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: Go raibh maith agat. I thank the Minister of State for all of the interaction and information we glean in these sessions. He has definitely hit the ground running, so I thank him on behalf of children and parents in Meath East. The improvements are coming thick and fast, as they should. Why did things not happen with as much of a sense of urgency and importance prior to this? That is...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I will be very careful if I go to west Cork on my holidays. I thank the Deputy for the heads up.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: On a more serious note, I thank the Minister, his team and I presume The Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers for the sterling work on what I consider to be a future-proofing and highly considered safeguarding of the next generations of the country. I also express my gratitude to our juvenile liaison officers. I will name two of them in particular from County Meath, garda Barbara Kelly...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I would not have minded if Senator Murphy O'Mahony went ahead because I was late; apologies everybody. I thank the witnesses for meeting with us today and for the information provided in advance and I thank the team for the supports in advance of the meeting. I also thank Dr. Aoife Price who is joining us online. She has effectively produced and...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation (Transfer of Functions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit and I thank Deputy Smith as well for affording us the opportunity to discuss this issue. I acknowledge and put on record the willingness of the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, to meet resident groups and the North Runway Technical Group as recently as 18 June this year. Those meetings - any that I have been able to sit in at - have taken the thrust of...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I am going to share with the Minister a Meath East constituent's lived experience of domestic violence. I have her permission and I have anonymised everything. She is a 42-year-old and has been 19 years in an engaged relationship with three children. She was mortgage-approved and she had a wedding booked. During that time, she achieved two third level degrees. Her final assault was in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (10 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the replies he received from Dublin Airport Authority, AIRNAV and IAA to the proposal for straight out departures from Dublin Airport north runway and other suggestions put forward by North Runway Technical Group at the meeting of 19 June 2025. [38642/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a VAT rate, comparable to Northern Ireland, is not included as a stimulus measure for home building in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38645/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain and provide documentary evidence of the rationale and detailed planning for re-designation of mild general learning disability schools to include children with more complex needs; how human and educational resources will be provided and utilised to ensure all children will receive equal assistance, attention and opportunities to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: 393. To ask the Minister for Health who set the Terms of Reference for the Covid Evaluation Committee; the reason clinical and vaccination information is not being sought; the reason the 2020-2022 timeframe has been chosen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38643/25]

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important subject for discussion. At the risk of being pedantic, I have said it before but I will say it again and continue to say it: there is a very important saying, let food be your medicine. It is the foundation of health. The health basis and the knock-on health effects of this issue are yet to play out. I totally understand the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the witnesses for everything they do. I thank them for the guidance and invaluable reference source. As somebody new in Leinster House and to this committee, pardon me if the phraseology of my questions might be blunt. They are not intended to be disrespectful. I have two questions. I also thank the team, as always, for circulating the information and, in particular, background...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I will just make a comment.