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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: I ask the Minister of State to relay the importance of this issue to his Cabinet colleagues. I cannot emphasise strongly enough the importance of this issue and how difficult it is for all the families concerned in Kerry. I have no doubt it is similar in other counties and throughout the country. I am pleading again. It is an opportune site and an opportune location for the Department of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: St. Mary of the Angels and St. Francis Special School in Beaufort in the heart of County Kerry is a very special place. The special needs community in Kerry has a major respite crisis. The families do not have the time to wait. The ground and the campus at St. Mary of the Angels should be made accessible now. Families do not have time to wait. They need help. They are not asking for...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: I, too, welcome the students to the Gallery this evening. The last three budgets reduced the cost of third level student fees by €1,000 per annum as part of the wider cost-of-living packages introduced by the Government. I am pressing the Minister to continue these reductions in fees for students on an ongoing basis as they and their families are hard-pressed to afford them. The...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: I have had many inquiries regarding back garden cabins from constituents all over County Kerry. They must be allowed to go ahead and they should also be available for rent. Local authorities should be able to adjudicate on small to medium-sized infrastructural projects by way of Part 8, even where environmental impact assessments are necessary, instead of such projects being sent to An Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expedite work on a site (details supplied) in Killarney, County Kerry, by developing a state-of-the-art campus focusing on skills development in hospitality training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37610/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a strong case to Cabinet to retain the cost-of-living reduction of €1,000 for student fees in budget 2026, and to making this welcome initiative a permanent feature; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37570/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite the introduction of taxi wheelchair accessible grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to the introduction of a limousine wheelchair-accessible grant to cater for disabled clients who visit our country and have the resources to tour the Ring of Kerry or, for example, the Dingle peninsula, in comfort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 334. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the anomaly that exists in regard to inheritance tax in respect of childless couples (details supplied) and bring an end to this very obvious discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37564/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently review the DEIS categorisation thresholds and ensure that DEIS rural schools are no longer punished for geography rather than need (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37550/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 1 July 2025, the way in which she can justify 22 early intervention classes in Cork and only two in Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37759/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the position in regard to the vacant and derelict property grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37840/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed list of the supports available to a group in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37557/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 736. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently provide respite services at schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37553/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 737. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently provide additional respite services across County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37554/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 738. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional supports available for an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37560/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 809. To ask the Minister for Health if she will host a rare disease conference; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37420/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 811. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently expedite a case (details supplied) and allow for a long-term nursing home bed in St. Columbanus Home, Killarney, County Kerry, as this is a most urgent case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37423/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 812. To ask the Minister for Health if a procedure will be expedited (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 936. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports available to an organisation in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37561/25]