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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 86. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the community centres investment fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38070/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I ask the Minister for an update on the community centres investment fund, and to make a statement on the matter. When will the next round be announced? It is a hugely important and successful scheme so I would like to hear an update.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister for the very positive response. I want to highlight communities like my own community of Mullaghbuoy. Mullaghbuoy Community Centre was built by the community, including my parents and loads of other parents and my neighbours. They went around collecting £1 a week to make sure we had a community facility. It caters for everything from the cake sales to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (10 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current status of the Irish diplomatic mission in Iran; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38061/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38062/25]

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

Erin McGreehan: 109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocated to the local improvement scheme since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38069/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case, as per media reports, that a plan to evacuate eighteen seriously ill children from Gaza to Ireland for potentially life-saving treatment has stalled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38639/25]

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the members for their participation and thank the Minister and his officials.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Message to Dáil (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: In accordance with Standing Order 102, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the service year ending 31 December 2025: Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: As a follow-up to that on accessibility of courses for students with disabilities, I hear there are fantastic offices in each higher education institution. They do an awful lot of work and they are getting a lot of resources. Resources are tight in the further education sector and I hear from tutors and the principals in the FET institutions that there are limits to what they are able to...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: An awful lot of questions were about student accommodation but specifically accommodation for the technological universities. I am thinking of DkIT and thinking local. Where is the Department on delivering the accommodation action plan?

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister for being here. As regards the capital investment into further and higher education facilities, local to me, in County Louth, we have Ó Fiaich College in Drogheda and DKIT, but because of the success of the further education sector, because what it is doing is really good, there are a great many more people wanting to go into the advanced entry courses, the fees for...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: On a slightly separate issue but one that goes to the core of accessibility, the European Accessibility Act came into effect for all public bodies and for everybody on 28 June. Has there been interaction between the Department and the education bodies in making sure that everything is accessible, that we are not charged and fined under the Act for not having an accessible website, let us say?

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Sorry, I am referring to technology and their courses and all their offerings.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Yes, please. That would be great. Thank you.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: We are finished with Deputy Doherty's clickbait. Good man. We will move on. My question is about the NESC. This is obviously budgeted from last year, but I am looking towards the future as to what is planned for next year for the NESC and its works. I am looking at its subgroups and what Deputy Ged Nash spoke about earlier, including child poverty and disability. I know there has been a...