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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Apologies; I missed that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Is the information also there with regard to agency provision and agency staff numbers?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Has a costing ever been done of a comparison between the cost of agency staff versus others? My concern here is that the nature of our work with children and young people requires building relationships.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: If and when we have agency staff, quite often the relationship is not there to the same extent.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Can I ask one more question, if the Chair does not mind? It has been great to have this back and forth. I really appreciate it. I have one brief statement. The narrative seems to be kind of evolving on this side around the cost-benefit analysis of €750,000 per child in a special care arrangement. I have no direct experience of working in a setting like that myself but I have...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses.

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I often stand up here to debate the challenges facing Government Ministers. I am on the record in conversation with the Minister of State, Deputy McConalogue, and I again commend him and previous Governments on their investment in sports facilities. I know of a number of pockets of County Kildare where the population has doubled in 20 years. The county has one of the youngest populations...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the Minister for being here and for his contribution. We are starting to see a trend across the House in the words we are using about carer's allowance. It comes down to choices. The Minister has spoken about the idea that he cannot abolish the means test now. I take issue with that. The Government can do it but it chooses not do. As he will agree, family carers make an...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I note that no amendments to this motion have been tabled. I call Deputy Hearne.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (1 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Thank you, Deputy.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (1 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: You can come back, Deputy.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú - To discuss the failure to provide an SNA for a primary school child. Deputy Matt Carthy - To discuss the impact of delays of SNA allocations on pupils and families in Cavan-Monaghan. Deputy...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (30 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I appreciate the update with regard to the review by the NCSE and that it is being taken as a priority. We will feed that back to the school immediately. It has potential but the worry is the criteria for the review. We do not know what the criteria are and if the same criteria are maintained from the first review, it would be unreasonable...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (30 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I mean this with the greatest of respect to the Minister of State, but this is the fourth Topical Issue raised with no relevant line Minister or Minister of State here to debate it and to engage in the conversation on it. I am not directing this at the Minister of State. He is here and I appreciate the opportunity to speak to him about this issue, but I cannot expect he will know anything...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 198. To ask the Taoiseach the amount expended on cloud storage solutions in the past five years and to date in 2025; and if he will provide the data storage supplier, in tabular form. [51372/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (30 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount expended on cloud storage solutions in the past five years and to date in 2025; and if he will provide the data storage supplier, in tabular form. [51364/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Data (30 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount expended on cloud storage solutions in the past five years and to date in 2025; and if he will provide the data storage supplier, in tabular form. [51358/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (30 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 226. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount expended on cloud storage solutions in the past five years and to date in 2025; and if he will provide the data storage supplier, in tabular form. [51360/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 227. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department uses and/or has purchased products developed by a company (details supplied); if he will provide a schedule of the products utilised; and if he will provide the amount expended on same. [51406/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount expended on cloud storage solutions in the past five years and to date in 2025; and if he will provide the data storage supplier, in tabular form. [51373/25]