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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to achieve the 500,000-home target by 2030 under the home energy upgrade programme; the reasons identified by him as to the levelling-out of uptake under the scheme; the measures to be taken on the issues identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17992/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Tá spriocanna dúshlánacha leagtha amach chun athchóiriú a dhéanamh ar thithe cónaithe agus iad sin a bheith ullamh faoi 2030. An mbeimid ábalta na spriocanna sin a bhaint amach nó an bhfuil aon bhac ann gur féidir a chur ar leataobh? There are ambitious targets set out for more than 500,000 homes to have been renovated by 2030. Is that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister. I will focus first on lower income households, where the free home energy upgrades, under the warmer homes scheme, would be expected to deliver. This time last year, it was taking eight to ten months to reach stage one, the BER assessment, and 26 months to get the overall works done under the scheme. By the middle of last year, it had slipped to ten to 12 months to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: For people who do not qualify for the free schemes, there is a range of grants and loans. Depending on the age of the building and the size, quite a substantial job can be required. It could be anywhere from €20,000 to €70,000 to carry out a deep retrofit. While there is a grant, it is a big expense, with people even having to borrow, and there is a long payback. The time,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the up-to-date position on the provision of the deposit return scheme at civic amenity sites in Cork county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17996/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he is taking to resolve the ongoing increasing timelines for completion of works under the SEAI free energy upgrades in Cork county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17995/25]

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Baineann na leasuithe seo leis an tslí go mbíonn an t-údarás ábalta talamh a dhíol agus a cheannach ar leas an phobail Ghaeltachta, ní hamháin ó thaobh na tionsclaíochta de, ach i slite éagsúla a bheadh ann ar leas an phobail. D'fhéadfadh cúrsaí cultúrtha, oideachais, tithíochta nó pé rud ar leas...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Déarfaidh mé cúpla focal ar an alt seo. Fáiltím roimh an tslí a chinntíonn sé go mbeidh muintir na Gaeltachta ábalta a n-ionadaithe féin ó thoghadh. Is mór an dul chun cinn é sin agus caithfimid a bheith cinnte fáiltiú roimhe sin. Bhí córas lochtach ann, áit a raibh ar mhuintir Chorcaí, muintir...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I need to raise the issue of delays in the delivery of home care packages to vulnerable people, particularly in the Cork and Kerry region. Across the county more than 5,000 people are waiting for home care packages, with more than 1,000 of them on waiting lists in the Cork and Kerry region. Very often these are people who have been assessed as needing a home care package and the HSE is not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister. Will she outline if all the planned pilot schemes got under way? I understand there are 14 of them, but did all the pilot schemes that were planned get under way? The transport scheme is currently open for applications and parents will be making applications for students in the weeks to come. Often, families are waiting right up to the last minute in September to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Focusing on the specific point again, what kinds of changes are being prioritised for each year? It is reasonable that not everything would be done in one go and the process would be phased in. What kind of changes are being proposed for phase 1 and each of the subsequent phases? Will the Minister give an outline in this regard? In communities where people are making applications now, in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pilot schemes run under the revised school transport scheme for 2025-26; the current stage of each pilot run under the revised scheme; when the revised school transport scheme for 2025-26 will be ready; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17170/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Every day, under the school transport scheme, thousands of students are taken to and from school. It is an invaluable service for many thousands of families. The service relies on rigid rules that, unfortunately, do not recognise, for example, that students may not be attending the immediately adjacent school or are perhaps going to schools their families had associations with over many...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her Department’s evaluation of pilots run under the revised school transport scheme for 2025-2026; to provide the next stage in the rollout of the revised school transport scheme 2025/2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17169/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the provision of free period products will be available in all schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17171/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for details on the next tranche under ICT grant funding; if this will open to schools for application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on any changes in the allocation process for schools for special needs assistants for 2025/2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17173/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if people who were assessed since the beginning of this year could be impacted in the allocation process for schools for special needs assistants for 2025/2026; when pupils assessed can expect a decision on their assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17174/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 770. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) will be paid for TB reactors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16966/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (3 Apr 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for the update. I acknowledge the progress that has been made on the wastewater treatment plant and the works under way there. I will focus on the drinking water and the supply there and the hassle and associated cost for locals who have endured boil water notice after boil water notice each winter. It is essential that those works and the new plant be...