Results 61-80 of 4,768 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 801. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of social workers employed by Tusla in 2019 to 2025, in tabular form. [51951/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 802. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in State care currently without an assigned social worker. [51952/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 814. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding streams available for a childcare facility for works (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52069/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 815. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will expand AIMS to support school age care in afterschool, as recommended by the recent evaluation, in Budget 2026 to ensure a level of support for children with additional needs is retained post-ECCE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 816. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide urgent funding for a case (details supplied) to ensure a child with additional needs can access afterschool and have their needs met; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52077/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 914. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet with Oireachtas Members in relation to the downgrading of maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, as requested in view of the fear and worry in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 915. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a site (details supplied); the HSE plans for the lands retained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51936/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 916. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Roscommon and Galway on waiting lists for a new home care package; and additional hours under current home care package, in tabular form. [51937/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 917. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Roscommon and Galway on waiting lists for primary care, by service (e.g. occupational therapy, speech and language), and length of waiting times, in tabular form. [51938/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 918. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on a CAMHS appointment in counties Roscommon and Galway, in tabular form. [51939/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 919. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of vacancies in primary care in counties Roscommon and Galway. [51940/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 920. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of vacancies in CAMHS in counties Roscommon and Galway. [51941/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 921. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of vacancies in CDNTs in counties Roscommon and Galway. [51942/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (30 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1005. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding streams available for a childcare facility for works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52070/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 345. To ask the Minister for Health to consider adding Ehlers–Danlos syndrome to the long-term illness card as the drugs payment scheme will not cover the drug Ozempic, which is reputed to improve the condition of sufferers. [50993/25]

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: Child poverty is rising. It is incredible to think that, in 2025, in one of the richest countries in the world, we have a situation whereby this generation is so much more worse off than the previous. I think of my own parents who were born in the 1960s. When they grew up, they had very little but they were never hungry. That was 60 years ago. There are serious questions, and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 9. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of issues childminders are experiencing with the new regulations; if she is concerned that childminders are leaving the role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49910/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I want to ask the Minister about the regulations that came into effect for childminders across the State in September 2024. They have now been in place for a year and there are issues being raised, primarily by Childminding Ireland. Given the severe capacity issues we have within our early years sector and the very high turnover of early years educators, particularly out of private...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome and acknowledge the fact childminders can now provide supports of the national childcare scheme and that will perhaps encourage or allow parents the choice rather than choosing a formal childcare setting. This is particularly so in rural areas where childminders would be used a lot, especially where they can provide flexibility that perhaps the formal childcare setting cannot. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: There will be a review between now and September 2027, which is the transition period. That is really welcome. I encourage the Minister, if she has an opportunity between now and September 2027, which I would like to think the Minister will, that she might meet with representatives from Childminding Ireland. I was very impressed with them. The organisation obviously represents a huge...