Results 101-120 of 681 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: The introduction of a cost-of-disability payment has been proposed but not acted upon for far too long. Detailed research and costings were carried out by the National Disability Authority as far back as 2006 and updated in the comprehensive Indecon report of 2021. Both reports clearly demonstrated the significant additional costs that come with living with a disability. These findings...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to introduce a cost of disability payment to help address the significant additional costs of having a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50570/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: Will the Minister provide some detail on the Government's commitment to introduce a permanent cost of disability payment to help to address the significant additional costs that come with having a disability and impose financial hardship on many of our disabled citizens?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for his response. A recent report from the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission shows that the additional costs faced by disabled people are now estimated to be between 52% and 59% of disposable income. For those with more severe disabilities, that rises to as much as 93%. These costs arise across essential areas,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the report on benchmarking and indexing working age social protection rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50573/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend automatic entitlement to the household benefits package, the fuel allowance payment, and the additional needs payment to anyone living with a life-limiting cancer diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50572/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to expand the criteria of the occupational injuries benefit scheme to include healthcare workers suffering with long Covid symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50571/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current staffing levels at a service (details supplied); the catchment area served; if it extends beyond County Cork; and her plans for further investment in staffing levels. [50947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (25 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of young persons attending a service (details supplied); and the average number attending on a daily basis. [50948/25]

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Grealish, for being here. The Social Democrats' views on the auto-enrolment system have been well articulated by my colleague Deputy Gannon in previous Dáil debates, particularly in April of last year. We very much welcome the concept but have concerns which I will go into in some detail. Every worker should have access to a retirement income...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank all of the witnesses for being here. Their statements are really instructive and enlightening for us. They are very powerful and moving as well. Mr. O'Neill summed up so much about where we are at in respect of inclusive education when he said in his statement, "No child's ... education should depend on charity or chance". I really salute his hard-hitting commentary about the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: It sounds like it is all so disjointed, that you have to be social entrepreneurs and project managers as well as teachers and principals at the same time.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: It is very difficult to have peace of mind every year, because while it sounds like Mr. O'Neill has been very successful in that there is necessarily uncertainty as to whether he will achieve that next year or the year after.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank Mr. O'Neill. Ms Murrihy spoke very poignantly about the impact of the school placement crisis and its impact on families. The statistics she outlined on the distances families are forced to travel to school are very stark. There is the dislocation from communities, restricted practices, and the impact on attainment and general well-being among children with additional needs. I...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform the Ethics in Public Office legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Legislative Measures (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 153. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the childcare (amendment) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Legislative Measures (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 154. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to amend sections of the Disability Act 2005 as it relates to assessments of need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50532/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (24 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for bringing forward the Health (Adult Safeguarding) Bill 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50534/25]

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: Enrolment in our school bus system has become an annual crisis, involving huge stress and uncertainty for many families. It is a stand-out example of the Government's inability or unwillingness to get the basics right for families. What should be a straightforward service has become an epic fiasco of poor, disjointed planning and crude restrictions, with so much unnecessary worry and hassle...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Liam Quaide: 93. To ask the Taoiseach if he will publish an up-to-date audit of the number and proportion of people with disabilities who are in employment, broken down by sector and region, to allow measurement of progress on closing the disability employment gap, and to provide comparable data to that published in Northern Ireland through NISRA. [49701/25]