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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: Nine weeks ago, on the return of the Dáil, I wrote to the Minister for Health in relation to a decision made to remove hundreds of births from the maternity service in Portiuncula in Ballinasloe. I looked for a meeting for all Oireachtas Members and all parties, not just myself, with the Minister for Health. We have had mixed messages. We have had the 2018 Walker report on maternity...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (19 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on a “visit a family/friend” visa appeal (details supplied); if new circumstances could be considered to expedite this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64271/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 360. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE estates has received a site survey for telecommunications works at a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64270/25]

Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (18 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: What the Minister calls agricultural sensitivities, we see as a real threat to Irish agriculture and Irish farm families the length and breadth of our State. It is a real kick in the teeth to farmers who have to bend over backwards and work so hard to meet regulation after regulation. They have to meet a bar that is set so high, and they meet it, high as it is, yet they then see the real...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will progress to build; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63662/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 800. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to Garda stations (details supplied). [63661/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (18 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 938. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on the waiting list for an assessment of need; the number of these children waiting over 12 months; the number waiting over 24 months and the number waiting over 36 months. [63664/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (18 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1108. To ask the Minister for Health if she will pause the sale of lands at a HSE-owned site (details supplied) until the HSE decides on the services which it will provide on the lands to be retained to ensure any future sale of lands will align with the use of the lands being retained and developed by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63663/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons Supports (18 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1116. To ask the Minister for Health if, given the success of the Genio Sasta pilot project it will be made permanent; if funding will be provided in health for homeless initiatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63675/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people from the Roscommon ambulance station hubs who will be eligible for the next advanced paramedic course being run by the National Ambulance Service, following recent interviews and subsequent results. [63839/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: In terms of building capacity, where has the idea of extensions to schools and community centres to create 2,300 places come from? I think of a school in Ballinasloe that has waited almost 30 years for a new build. Schools cannot build and develop what they need to and we are talking about extensions. We need childcare places tomorrow. Extensions to schools, if there is permission from...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 83. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the measures announced in budget 2026 for the early years sector, including the 2,300 places to be created via extensions to schools and community centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61736/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I want to ask the Minister to outline the measures for the early years sector that were announced in budget 2026, particularly the measure to provide 2,300 places via extensions to schools and community centres. Perhaps she will be able to enlighten us as to where that measure came from and how long she expects planning permission to take for these extensions to take place.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome all of those measures and any measure announced for the early years sector that will make a difference. One of the biggest issues we have in the early years sector right now is capacity. We have serious issues in terms of capacity, whether it is capacity in baby rooms or capacity in childcare places at every level right across the State. As far as I am concerned, when we need...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 81. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of concerns raised by childminders as to the future of their childminding service, and the impact that childminders leaving the sector would have given the already severe lack of childcare capacity; if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied) which represents childminders; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I hope the Minister will hear us about the issues that childminders are bringing to our attention and the need for that review to take place as quickly as possible. The regulations have been in place for just over one year. It is the perfect time for that review now to commence. When does the Minister expect that review to begin? Childminders are telling parents that they are already...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I urge the Minister to ensure that the review takes place early next year. I was on the radio today. There was someone on with me who has been a childminder for 17 years. She is leaving. She has told the parents of the children that she will not be able to look after them at the end of the school year next June. She is one of many. I do not see any reason that a review of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: Respectfully, the problem is that some of those childminders at that point will be gone. If we are waiting for them to register with Tulsa and we then engage with them at that point, is it under 200 of the 13,000 or 14,000 childminders in the State who have registered with Tusla to date? It is happening at a snail’s pace. If that is what we are waiting for, then the review will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: That was the first year. It is over; it is gone.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 98. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the action plan on childcare, early years; the stage that it is at; when it will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61491/25]