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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 Health: Health Services Staff (5 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies currently in Tullamore Health Centre; to provide details of these vacancies, including the length of time they have been vacant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60315/25]

Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: This Bill will allow the ESB to access more funding and do more in terms of investment in improving infrastructure. As the majority shareholder in the ESB, there is a real onus on the Government to ensure people feel the benefit of that extra funding and investment. This is especially important for areas like mine across Roscommon and Galway that were hammered by Storm Éowyn earlier...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to implement an app for the deposit return scheme similar to that proposed by a person (details supplied) that would allow residents to scan bottles and cans and have the money deducted from their monthly waste bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a mechanism to get data on the number bottles and cans that enter circulation each year but are not returned; if so, to provide this data for every year since the scheme was introduced, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58654/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are plans to nationalise the management of the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 234. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of an air ambulance base (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 505. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the significant challenges the primary medical certificate presents for persons with disabilities and chronic illnesses, particularly when it comes to accessing suitable vehicles; his plans to reform the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59460/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to a school (details supplied) to undertake a security and access control project that will see a fob-based entry system installed on the schools main doors and gates in circumstances where the minor works grant will not cover the entirety of the cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57833/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 915. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department expects to make a decision regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60054/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1011. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider raising the threshold for social housing in Offaly or moving Offaly into band two; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58069/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (4 Nov 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is acceptable that sewage is still on Callery Street, Tullamore, over a week since flooding occurred; the steps he will take to rectify this situation which occurs regularly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60055/25]