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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (1 May 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Considerable changes are being planned for the network. Specifically, for BusConnects Cork, it is planned to move the terminus at Grange Manor and to put two bus routes into that general area with very different services. While there are other issues on down the network that need addressing, I want particularly to focus on the residents of Ovens and Grange Manor and the new homes that are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (1 May 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: The locals in Grange Manor and the wider Ovens area have been raising concerns with me about the proposed changes on the 220 bus route. They have been raising them directly with me and with local councillors Gobnait Moynihan and Mick Looney, and outlining very reasonable concerns about the proposed changes. We have been engaging with BusConnects Cork about its proposed plan. This proposed...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 May 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding will be allocated to Cork County Council to address the shortfall in funding required to address the works required for road repairs in mid Cork due to major deterioration of roads by recent high levels of rainfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19927/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (1 May 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address the severe staff shortages in all hospitals in the South/South West hospital group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19925/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 102. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the common practice of childcare facilities charging non-refundable deposits; the engagement he has had with childcare providers to cease this practice, given the financial hardship on families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19059/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Bus Services (30 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with the Minister for Transport to ensure that all services run by Local Link Cork are wheelchair-accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19060/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (30 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of school children now in receipt of hot meals, by county, in tabular form. [19340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (25 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to allow for caring periods under 20 years to be included for long-term caring contributions for the purposes of the State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18355/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to give consideration to extending the carer’s benefit to include the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18354/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of land where forestry was planted last year; the amount expected to be planted this year; if there are specific measures in place to increase the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18353/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (25 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will develop a national land use strategy to address, amongst other things, the concerning lack of land availability for afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18352/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (24 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital funding allocated to build the new Macroom Garda Station; the up-to-date position on the construction of the station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17786/24]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe agus gabhaim buíochas leo as na cuir i láthair. Bhíos ag éisteacht go dtí seo agus aontaím go láidir gur chóir go mbeadh straitéis ann don Ghaelainn tríd an gcóras ar fad, ón réamhscolaíocht go dtí an bhunscolaíocht, an mheánscolaíocht agus ar aghaidh go...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: An mbraitheann Caoimhín Ó hEaghra go bhfuil ról acu chun freastal ar an éileamh nó ar chóir stopadh ar fad agus treo eile a thógáil? Tá siad ar an tírdhreach faoi láthair agus ag freastal ar chuid den éileamh atá ann. Má tá straitéis chun a bheith leagtha amach i gcomhair na Gaelscolaíochta, cá seasann...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Nílim ag moladh gurb é sin an áit ina bhfuil an réiteach. Cloisim an méid atá á rá, is é sin go mbeadh éileamh ar scoileanna neamhspleácha, ach tá siad ann. Táim ag díriú isteach ar conas gur chóir é sin a láimhseáil.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Éileamh don Ghaelscolaíocht: Plé (24 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Cé nach bhfuilimid ag moladh iad seo mar réiteach, an bhfuil tuairim ag na finnéithe ar conas a líonann siad bearna in áiteanna nach bhfuil aon scoil nua á bunú?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Law Cases (23 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for outlining the situation. Having dealt with many people who have been involved in various cases, as he will have done as well, I know that many sensitive matters will be discussed at those courts. The courts already recognise that in the way they schedule cases for different times, yet situations nonetheless arise on the day whereby one party will be on one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Law Cases (23 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State. I might briefly move to the issue of the Circuit Court, where, for example, divorce proceedings are heard and where there tends to be some time spent waiting for those hearings to be held. Some of that might be down to adjournments but, despite that, people still often have to wait a considerable number of years for the case to go through. Having a dedicated...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Law Cases (23 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider providing dedicated family courts within the existing court structures to ensure families are placed at the centre of the family justice system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17787/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Law Cases (23 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: My question relates to the possibility of additional or dedicated family court sessions that would be afforded in order that people hearing or involved in those sensitive cases would have the maximum opportunity for the maximum privacy. Often the matters discussed are very delicate. I ask that the best service available would be afforded to them.