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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: Is the Government actively seeking to dismantle the adult education sector? How else could the Minister explain a situation where adult education tutors with Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board, ETB, and other regions, were informed at minimal notice that their contracts were suspended and that their classes would not commence in September as planned? How could the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is the position of the Department that the non-application of means tests regarding supports for persons seeking international protection was in contravention of European Union regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37646/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 940 of 9 September 2024, if she will outline the policy and budgetary context in which the household benefits package for carers who do not live with the person they care for was scrapped in 2012; if she has considered it within the context of Budget 2025; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of special envoys appointed in the years 2000 to date; the appointment process by which they were chosen; the funds allocated in each year to support their work; the intended duration of their term; if he will report on their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37585/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Bus Éireann to allocate school bus tickets to siblings (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37429/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Bus Éireann to allocate a school bus ticket to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37430/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct Bus Éireann to establish additional school bus capacity to collect children in Clontibret, County Monaghan, who attend secondary schools in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, considering that there have been a number of children in this area who have been denied school transport this year; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Bus Éireann to allocate a school bus ticket to a pupil (details supplied), given the upheaval that will be forced upon them and their family if they have to change schools at this stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37586/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for the secondary school education of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37639/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 395. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider funding a new family resource centre in Carrickmacross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37891/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 396. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the funding allocated to family resources centres that carry out valuable work in their communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37892/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 541. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE neurological specialists, by CHO region; the number of vacancies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37893/24]

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: While there are a lot of failures this Government is overseeing, the failures in disability services are probably the single greatest failure. Like all the other failures, what we get from the Taoiseach is soundbites rather than solutions. My experience of dealing with families in Monaghan is a familiar story, from listening to other Deputies. Families are waiting far too long for an...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: I recall in November 2016 that I was an MEP when the Fine Gael Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, attended the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee. I asked him about the so-called double Irish, one of the many practices that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael had created to allow the wealthiest corporations in the world avoid paying their taxes. The scheme at...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: That is crazy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: As we sit here, bombs are exploding across Lebanon. They are exploding in supermarkets, offices and cars and they are indiscriminate in the taking and injuring of life. This is clearly a strategic move on the part of the Israeli regime that is designed to escalate the conflict more widely and, crucially from its perspective, to bring the United States directly into the conflict. I can only...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: Last October, I raised with the Taoiseach’s Fianna Fáil predecessor the case of a young boy in Castleblayney who was seriously injured in a football match and had to wait three hours before an ambulance arrived. The then Tánaiste informed the House that he could not understand why it would take so long but set out very clearly that things were improving and all the great...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Artificial Intelligence (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has a policy, or has issued guidance to staff on the use of artificial intelligence, large language model, natural language processing, generative or otherwise, or products based thereon in the course of their duties; if this has been communicated to staff; if he will publish same. [36149/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Artificial Intelligence (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department, or any agency under his auspices, has ever used any artificial intelligence software in the preparation of response to parliamentary questions, or in responses to any correspondence from outside the organisation; and the details of same if applicable. [36168/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements during his recent visit to Ukraine. [36233/24]