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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the interdepartmental working group to examine and review the system of means testing for carer's payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7673/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on a reformed scheme to give effect to all nine recommendations outlined in the review of the reasonable accommodation fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7672/25]

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for listening to our concerns today. I will take up the theme of loneliness from my colleague because as a society it is crucial for us to reckon with it, in particular with regard to older adults. Large-scale studies by TILDA have presented us with stark findings regarding the impact of loneliness on a person's health, quality of life and...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I would also like to welcome our Ukrainian dignitaries and friends this evening. Monday marked the third anniversary of Russia's brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have shown heroic courage fighting off Russian aggression over the past three years. Eight years prior to that full-scale invasion, parts of eastern Ukraine were seized by Russia and the local...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (26 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his policy regarding the development of infrastructure for the commercial import of liquified natural gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8218/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister of State. This week I spoke to a family that is campaigning for the proposed secondary school autism class in Youghal. Their current experience of primary education in Youghal is going very well for their son. However, the lead-up to being granted that school placement was a time of major trepidation as it was far from guaranteed due to the level of need out there....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his appointment. The lack of suitable school places for children with additional needs is critical for many families in my constituency of Cork East. There are 16 autism classes in five primary schools in or around the Youghal area. These are feeder schools for Youghal's only secondary school, Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, which has only...

Disability: Statements (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I raise the human rights issue of adults under 65 with an intellectual disability or acquired brain injury who end up living in nursing homes or who find themselves stranded in psychiatric wards due to a lack of community-based supports. This is a desperately sad situation and another example of how much distance is opening up between our economic prosperity, on one hand, and the vindication...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: Earlier this month, St. John's special school in Dungarvan, County Waterford, had to operate a draw overseen by a local Garda superintendent. The draw was not for a raffle to raise money; it was to allocate places in the school for children with additional needs. This is the kind of dystopian ritual that schools are being forced to undertake due to chronic under-resourcing of special...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to address morale among staff of children's disability network teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7670/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grant-aid is available to support families construct a granny flat or similar structure on the property of their family home for members of their own families who may have additional needs or disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 734. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for her decision on whether to extend the accommodation recognition payment beyond 31 March 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7153/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 995. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills His Department's engagement with the Higher Education Authority since his Department's March 2014 advice that education institutions should charge the more moderate rate of EU fee for full-time undergraduate students that commence their first undergraduate course and hold EU/EEA/Swiss nationality but do not meet the residency clause of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I want to raise the long-standing issue of the water supply and water pressure in Ballyhooly, County Cork. Over the years, residents there have had to deal with extremely low water pressure and, at times, a non-existent supply of water, for prolonged periods. This has been affecting residents in nearly aspect of their daily lives. When water pressure is low, people cannot shower, bathe or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the supports available to new businesses established in 2024 and not eligible for the increased cost of business scheme or the associated Power Up grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6838/25]

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: The Social Democrats are introducing this motion on addressing the housing disaster at a time when the Government is clearly at an ideological loss. Its policies of incentives for developers and investments for vulture funds, and their inflationary demand-side measures, have failed to move the dial on the housing disaster. More people are homeless today than ever before and the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will be issuing an exemption for educational, counselling and clinical psychology trainees from current recruitment controls for the next college term; and the number of psychology trainee placements that will be funded nationally. [6455/25]

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I welcome the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Moynihan, and congratulate them on their appointments. The area of special educational needs and disability involves so much frustration, worry and stress and unnecessary daily hardship for families, as well as so much discontinuity and inconsistency of care and rehabilitation, that it is difficult to know...

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I congratulate the Minister of State on her reappointment as Minister of State with responsibility for mental health. We hear so many stories about what is going wrong with our mental health services and as public representatives advocating for our constituents it is difficult not to fall into a position of perpetual complaint and outrage at times because there is so much unmet need out...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 644. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a timeline on the introduction of the European disability card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5802/25]