Results 141-160 of 428 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: Ministerial appointments by this Government have not generally filled me with joy but I was glad to hear the Minister of State would be taking up this role. It is clear he has a genuine love of nature and a wealth of knowledge to back it up that would put most of us to shame, so I welcome his appointment. Unfortunately, our trees and hedgerows have never been more in danger. The legal...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: In his magisterial meditation on the Holocaust, The Drowned and the Saved, Italian survivor Primo Levi detailed in a chapter “Useless Violence” some of the cruelties and deprivations to which the Nazis subjected the Jewish community of Europe prior to their murder in concentration camps. The term “useless violence” reflected the lack of any rationale, even in the...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I commend the Independent Technical Group on its motion before the House today. I welcome the discussion of issues that are of such fundamental importance in the pursuit of a fair and inclusive society, and in how we value or fail to value the lives of our disabled citizens and our elders and, essentially, who we are as a society and as a republic. In this context, the means test for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (21 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 177. To ask the Minister for Health for the projected costs of implementing the Mental Health Bill, including the cost of staffing that will be needed to expand the remit of the Mental Health Commission; and if there is a full funding commitment given by the Government to cover these costs. [26260/25]

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I pay tribute to Cara Darmody and her dad, Mark. I acknowledge the leadership Cara has shown in bringing us all here this evening with this collective motion. Clinical services and educational supports for children with additional needs and disabilities are in a dire state, directly resulting from years of poor planning and under-resourcing. All of this did not come about by chance....

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for her statement. Cara Darmody, a remarkable 14-year-old disability activist from Ardfinnan in County Tipperary, today began a 50-hour sleep-out on Kildare Street in front of Leinster House. Cara is taking this action to highlight the more than 15,000 young people in this country who are overdue an assessment of need. We hear from the HSE that this figure could reach...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the electric vehicle grant for taxis, hackneys and limousines (eSPSV) to include hybrid vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25371/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a breakdown of cost overruns stemming from capital projects under his Department's remit that were in excess of €100,000 at original cost projection and overran by 20% or from 2020 to 2025, across each county, detailing the name of the project, the original cost projection and the latest cost projection, to include projects...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will grant an additional special education class for a school (details supplied) for the 2025-26 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 769. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the reinstatement of therapists from children disability network teams back to special schools since August 2024, and a breakdown of relevant figures including of recruitment attempts to backfill those posts within CDNTs following reinstatement of those therapists in special schools. [25749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 843. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of cost overruns stemming from HSE capital projects that were in excess of €100,000 at original cost projection and overran by 20% or more from 2020 to 2025, detailing the name of the project, the original cost projection and the latest cost projection, to include projects that are planned, in train or completed for the years in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 844. To ask the Minister for Health for the average monthly cost to the HSE of a full-time agency staff psychiatrist, clinical nurse specialist, staff nurse, psychologist, social worker and occupational therapist; and to ask for a comparison of average monthly salary costs to the HSE for a staff member who is directly employed by the HSE across the same disciplines, in tabular form. [25712/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (15 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the programme to be put in place by his Department to arrange for Uisce Éireann to take in charge wastewater treatment plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24542/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hedge Cutting (15 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure the protection of hedgerow habitats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23721/25]

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister of State for his statement. The crisis in driver test waiting times is disproportionately affecting rural constituents and people in towns such as Youghal, where public transport links are extremely poor. The rural bus link improvements that, in fairness, we saw in some parts of the country during the previous term of Government unfortunately did not reach villages such...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (14 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of real estate investment trusts in Ireland; the rate of effective corporation tax paid by such entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (14 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applicants to the help-to-buy scheme who were required to pay the payment back to the Revenue Commissioners as they did not live in the property for at least five years after buying or building it, in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively. [24521/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (14 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the current status and recent developments in the public provision of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) services across Ireland, including any expansion of DBT teams, training initiatives, data on the availability of individual and group therapy, and support for families and carers over the past year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24832/25]

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I welcome and fully support Sinn Féin's motion. The need for urgent action on critical infrastructure is no more keenly felt than by residents of Ballyhooly in north Cork. There are chronic water pressure issues in Ballyhooly that are having a significant impact on the quality of life of those residents. This has been happening for many years. The water pressure there is never...

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for his statement on the power of higher education, research and skills as economic enablers. This is a noble and important subject for us to consider. I will briefly recall an era when higher education was much better set up to develop the whole person who was passing through this important, exciting and memorable stage of his or her life. I first went to college in...