Results 161-180 of 1,383 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 988. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí attached to roads policing units to date in May 2025 by division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Natura 2000 (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Fisheries Natura Declarations which have been completed for Natura 2000 sites in the marine and coastal environment, if work is underway to complete Fisheries Natura Declarations for Natura 2000 sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29822/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of his/her Department’s engagement with the WRC to restore pay parity between Section 38 and Section 39 workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total value of applications received under the recent building block grant scheme; if all eligible applications were funded under the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30357/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a breakdown of unsuccessful applications under the building block grant scheme, by county; the reason each application was unsuccessful; if there is an appeal mechanism for unsuccessful applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30358/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1215. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications under the building block grant scheme which were unsuccessful due to the fact that the applicant did not own the land; if the Minister will examine a remedy for these providers for future rounds of the programme in order to provide much needed additional capacity; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1216. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the work carried out to date to develop an action plan to build an affordable, high-quality, accessible early education and care system with State-led facilities adding capacity as committed in the Programme for Government; when she expects to publish this action plan; if she...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1217. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline the roadmap to reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child; if she will provide an estimated timeframe to meet this key Programme for Government commitment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30361/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1218. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to provide capital investment to build or purchase State-owned childcare facilities; if this will be a priority for the Minister as part of the current review of the National Development Plan; the engagement she has had with the Minister for Public Expenditure to date on this matter; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1219. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement her Department has had with the Department of Education and Youth regarding the construction of childcare facilities at schools which can then be contracted out to providers; her views on how this model will be progressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30363/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1220. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department is carrying out a mapping exercise to identify the parts of the country where State intervention in the provision of childcare is most acutely required; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30364/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1221. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of the number of new childcare providers who have entered the sector in each of the past five years, by county; the number of childcare providers who have left the sector in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30365/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1222. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to extend the National Childcare Scheme to childminders working in the family home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30366/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1223. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the annual budget for the national childcare scheme in each year since it was introduced, in tabular form; the number of childcare providers in receipt of NCS funding in each of these years; the number of children being supported in each of these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30367/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1224. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of eligible children not availing of the ECCE programme, by county; her views on the reasons some families are not taking up ECCE; the steps her Department is taking to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30368/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1225. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the median full-time fees charged by childcare providers in each Local Authority area, in tabular form; the steps she plans to take to address significant fee variations across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30369/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1226. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she provide an update on the work to date to transform the supply management unit into a forward planning and delivery unit within her Department to identify areas of need, forecast demand and deliver public supply within the childcare sector where required; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1227. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to ensure that childcare provider’s fees are open, transparent and equitable and readily available to parents as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30371/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the need to improve pay, terms and conditions within the childcare sector in order to attract and retain staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30372/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 1229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the staff turnover rate in early learning and care services in 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, in each local authority area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30373/25]