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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I welcome this legislation and the work that the Minister, his Department and the committee have done to shape the scheme. In recent weeks, it has been great to see many people coming forward to register their interest in receiving information on their time in mother and baby institutions and their adoptions. It is fantastic that those records have been made available. I have been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for that comprehensive response. It has been an absolutely historic budget. As the Minister said, it has been the largest ever package to get money back into people’s pockets. That has been welcomed by an awful lot of people. The Minister has done a great job of supporting people on low incomes who need help, support and intervention the most. She has also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for her explanation on reviews. As I said, a constituent of mine has been in touch on this. She is working two seasonal part-time jobs and she is a lone parent. In situations such as hers and in all situations, we absolutely have to have control measures and means-testing. However, I hope that our means test will not be mean enough to discourage people from going out,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for her response. This really was a cost-of-living budget. It was about targeting help towards people who most need it and also providing universal assistance. Every family throughout the country is struggling with the increase in the cost of living. It was good to hear the Minister talk about those low-income families who received the targeted support of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a timeframe for the introduction of the cost-of-living payments announced in budget 2023 that are due to be issued before Christmas 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50308/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: This question relates to providing a timeframe for the introduction of the cost-of-living payments announced in the budget. It has possibly been publicised since this question was tabled but will the Minister talk us through that please?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for outlining all the supports and measures that she introduced in this budget. People are grateful for them and they have gone down positively in my community. I thank her for that level of investment. It was interesting to hear the Minister talk about 16 years of age being the cut-off point for child benefit, with an extension once people are still in full-time...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the feasibility of extending child benefit to children who are 18 years or over, but are still in full-time post-primary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50309/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: My question is on the feasibility of extending child benefit to children who are aged over 18 years but are still in full-time post-primary education. Is this something the Minister has considered?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Employment Rights (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which his Department is supporting the expanded facilitation of breastfeeding in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50310/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the newly announced pay rates for the childcare sector will include recognition of long service or an incremental pay scale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50311/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a progress update on the delivery of the Hazelhatch greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50797/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the feasibility of delivering the impending Hazelhatch greenway in tandem with the works needed to widen the road at the canal bridge in order to deliver the full W6 bus route service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50798/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 456. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the funding that is to be available to counselling trainee psychologists based on Budget 2023; if it will consist of a contribution to fees and a salary and be equal in support to the funding available to clinical psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50998/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of wholetime equivalent psychologists for CH09 in CAMHS, the children’s disability network teams, children’s primary care and the National Educational Psychological Service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51024/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 461. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children’s disability network teams in Dublin west; and their locations. [51025/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 462. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of staff in each children’s disability network team in Dublin west, including social workers, psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and so on, by full-time equivalent. [51026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: 463. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the role of the new children’s multi-disciplinary assessment hub in Castleknock, Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51027/22]

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for that response and those helpful updates. Her commitment to delivering for students in Dublin Mid-West is welcome and we all hope those tenders and construction projects go according to plan. I will take the opportunity to put on the record the primary schools in my area that are also due new buildings. Those include Scoil Chrónáin in Rathcoole; St....