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Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: It is a total shift in mindset. We have only a specific cohort of children getting individual education plans. I often found when I visited schools and wanted to help parents work on an individual education plan over the summer, I realised the plan was a document that sat on a shelf but what happened on the ground was very different. To get to that model would be phenomenal, especially...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to support those in social housing whose home is affected by pyrite; if legislative amendments to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 will support them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53451/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the legislative amendments to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022; to provide a timeline for these changes to be enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53450/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank the witnesses for attending. I could listen to them all day, especially their examples of where AI is helping. A lot of them used the profound phrase "accessibility as an afterthought". They spoke about how this should not be the case with AI and that disabled voices are not being represented because of the biased data sets. They also talked about cocreation and universal design....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: Dr. Craddock mentioned new products being designed, Ms Apaza Machaca's referred to her AI glasses, and Mr. Culhane outline how he does his shopping with AI. It is exciting to hear that. However, again it is worrying about the digital divide and what subsidies and grants we need. I worked in the neurodiverse space, and it is great to see improvements with AAC devices being rolled out in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: Ms Apaza Machaca mentioned AI glasses and Mr. Culhane mentioned a device that he uses when he is shopping. I was wondering if he was thinking about subsidies and grants or the Government coming in to support that digital divide. What would be his suggestions?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered changes to the inheritance tax policy for individuals without children; if measures to increase the inheritance tax exemption under the current inheritance tax policy in respect of individuals without children are being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53709/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Services (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the State’s response to storm Éowyn. [49218/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Rights of the Child (7 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 511. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on her Department's work in relation to the development of a national policy on the rights of children living in informal kinship care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53011/25]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (2 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Mark Wall - To discuss the provision of an hourly train service for Athy. Deputy Paula Butterly - To discuss the rule preventing widows, widowers and surviving civil partners from receiving illness benefit. Deputy Malcolm...

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I welcome our guests from America in the Visitors Gallery.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment following on from the launch of the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030, the means by which disability lead and associated grants are funded; the overall funding provided to such grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52009/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Safety (2 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the works of Coimisiún na Meán in implementing the online safety code; the number of cases taken in relation to breaches of the code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 106. To ask the Minister for Health the plans she has to engage further with Mayo University Hospital in relation to staff shortages in the accident and emergency department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52391/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (2 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to alleviate staff shortages in the accident and emergency department in Mayo University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52392/25]

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I wish the witnesses a good morning and thank them for their fantastic opening statements. I have four questions and seven minutes. Let us see how we do. I have a thought to start with. I loved Ms O'Rourke's description of including the voice of a child through pictures and other ways. It struck me that, yes, we need the disability voices but another piece of this puzzle might also be...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: What will that team look like? Is that a team in that school, if it is a school with 300 children, or will it be a team that moves between three schools? What does it look like?

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: That is really well put. If we have an OT providing regulation supports to a child with a disability, it will help to regulate the whole classroom. We have 30 seconds left for this question.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: I am wondering about the idea of caseload when we look at these in-school therapies. While I am a TD now and probably should not say this, I avoided working in public service because I wanted to manage my caseload. I kept it at approximately 50 clients. That meant some could come maybe once a month, others once a fortnight and some I saw a couple of times a week, depending on the need. Ms...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Keira Keogh: That earn and learn-----