Results 121-140 of 192 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (19 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 1818. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres currently under construction within CHO4; when each of these will be opened; the level of service each will provide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12237/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 74. To ask the Minister for Health how a €64 million centralised residential mental health service on the grounds of Saint Stephen’s Hospital, Glanmire can be in accordance with the ethos of community integration that is core to national mental health policy and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Person with a Disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 86. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the construction of a ten-bed community mental health residence on the grounds of the Owenacurra centre Midleton and on the referral destinations of east Cork service users requiring residential placement since the Owenacurra centre stopped taking referrals in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10157/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Funding (6 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to increase funding for international food and nutrition programmes given the United States administration’s recent spending cuts to its humanitarian programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10493/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (6 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Transport Infrastructure Ireland will release funding for the completion of the trailhead at the MacCurtainstown car park in Youghal, along the Midleton to Youghal greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10289/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Schemes (5 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants and funding opportunities available to local communities to help maintain and/or acquire local wetland areas in order to protect their habitat and ecosystem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10106/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 317. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the criteria of the help-to-buy scheme to extend the period taken into consideration when calculating the amount of income tax paid by the applicant beyond four years for those who may have taken maternity leave from work during that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9716/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to include healthcare workers suffering with long Covid symptoms within the occupational injuries benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8935/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I welcome the Minister and congratulate him on his appointment. A cohort of healthcare workers with severe long Covid who contracted the virus at the height of the pandemic in high-risk settings are suffering with chronic disabling symptoms and have not been able to return to work as a result. I know this because in my previous role as a psychologist I worked with many of these...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: The long-term prognosis for these healthcare workers is very unclear. They often suffer from a range of symptoms which include debilitating fatigue and malaise after very modest levels of activity and there is no clear treatment pathway for them. In some cases, healthcare workers have been out of work for between four and five years. Many were infected in early January 2021 following the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: On the temporary extensions of the special Covid leave with pay, these healthcare workers should not have to endure repeated last-minute cliff-edge moments regarding their financial security. They are being left in limbo for months on end while talks between trade unions, Departments and the HSE have remained at an impasse. They often do not know if they will be able to pay their mortgage...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the interdepartmental working group to examine and review the system of means testing for carer's payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7673/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on a reformed scheme to give effect to all nine recommendations outlined in the review of the reasonable accommodation fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7672/25]

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for listening to our concerns today. I will take up the theme of loneliness from my colleague because as a society it is crucial for us to reckon with it, in particular with regard to older adults. Large-scale studies by TILDA have presented us with stark findings regarding the impact of loneliness on a person's health, quality of life and...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I would also like to welcome our Ukrainian dignitaries and friends this evening. Monday marked the third anniversary of Russia's brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have shown heroic courage fighting off Russian aggression over the past three years. Eight years prior to that full-scale invasion, parts of eastern Ukraine were seized by Russia and the local...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (26 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his policy regarding the development of infrastructure for the commercial import of liquified natural gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8218/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister of State. This week I spoke to a family that is campaigning for the proposed secondary school autism class in Youghal. Their current experience of primary education in Youghal is going very well for their son. However, the lead-up to being granted that school placement was a time of major trepidation as it was far from guaranteed due to the level of need out there....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his appointment. The lack of suitable school places for children with additional needs is critical for many families in my constituency of Cork East. There are 16 autism classes in five primary schools in or around the Youghal area. These are feeder schools for Youghal's only secondary school, Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, which has only...

Disability: Statements (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: I raise the human rights issue of adults under 65 with an intellectual disability or acquired brain injury who end up living in nursing homes or who find themselves stranded in psychiatric wards due to a lack of community-based supports. This is a desperately sad situation and another example of how much distance is opening up between our economic prosperity, on one hand, and the vindication...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Liam Quaide: Earlier this month, St. John's special school in Dungarvan, County Waterford, had to operate a draw overseen by a local Garda superintendent. The draw was not for a raffle to raise money; it was to allocate places in the school for children with additional needs. This is the kind of dystopian ritual that schools are being forced to undertake due to chronic under-resourcing of special...