Results 81-100 of 1,275 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1238. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of making available an extra hour of ECCE each day in the second year of preschool; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30382/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1239. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of Early Learning and Childcare and School Age Childcare closures, by county in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30383/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1240. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of services providing a baby room for babies aged 0-1, by county; the number of baby rooms available in each county in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30384/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of community childcare facilities who have entered the sector in each of the past five years, by county; and the number of community childcare providers who have left the sector in each of the past five years, by Local Authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30385/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1552. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his/her Department’s engagement with the WRC to restore pay parity between Section 38 and Section 39 workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30159/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1553. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider making the three-year retention of the medical card permanent for people with intellectual disabilities and autism who gain employment, in order to remove barriers to work and support long-term inclusion in the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30162/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1554. To ask the Minister for Health the funding streams available for Section 39 organisations to provide for sensory equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of third level courses for several roles (details supplied); the number of students that selected these courses as their first preference on their application to the CAO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29994/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider expanding social care qualifications through the Springboard+ initiative for staff working in Section 39 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30161/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1673. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timings for the next round of the community recognition fund allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29092/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1674. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timings for the next round of the community centres investment fund allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29093/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the immense challenges facing the childcare sector, including a lack of spaces, will be considered by the new infrastructure division of his Department and by the new accelerating infrastructure task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28049/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: This Government will be judged by its delivery of critical infrastructure, that is, infrastructure needed for social and economic reasons. In that regard, we have not seen significant public investment in childcare infrastructure in our local communities. For reference, €45 million was ring-fenced to expand childcare capacity in the NDP over the past two years, versus €1.4...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: For the first time, the programme for Government commits to a public model of childcare. The Taoiseach has confirmed that work is needed to map out how we will do that in a public building programme and how that will harmonise with existing provision. He also confirmed that the new supply and management unit has been established to do forward planning and delivery and to assess demand, plan...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: At the heart of these questions lies an opportunity to link the provision of childcare places with the provision of new housing. Childcare needs a big idea that can deliver capacity at scale and value for money. I am not interested in the big chains that can do that already but in public supply and in supporting community crèches and the providers, primarily women, who have been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: There is a lot of good in the programme for Government. It says that the Government will review these guidelines. It also commits to reviewing core funding and to the provision of public supply. I am here today to say that there are opportunities to combine those and come up with a big vision for the delivery of childcare in our communities. At the moment, there are exemptions to the rule...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if in cases where buildings are provided for childcare as a condition for planning permission for residential developments, a mechanism could be found through the tax system to help lower the cost of fitting out such buildings, given that cost is proving to be a major impediment, particularly for community childcare providers; and if he will make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the way in which the tax system through, for example, tax relief could help increase the number of childcare places in communities, such as those in west Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28065/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: I am not sure if the Minister is aware but we have planning guidelines from 2001 where for every 75 dwellings that are built, 20 childcare places are also to be provided. If it was happening, I do not think we would have the problems we have regarding childcare. Sometimes it works. I am sure the Minister has seen that in his own constituency. However, sometimes the builders are exempt or...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, as part of the ongoing review of the National Development Plan, particularly in relation to national strategic outcome 10, he will review the stark under-provision of capital funding for provision of childcare facilities compared to capital funding allocations for other areas of social infrastructure; and if he will make a...