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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 306. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on her Department's engagement with the planning and building unit of the Department of Education and Youth, regarding the development of State-led childcare facilities in tandem with the school building programme; the number of meetings that have taken place; the dates when these meetings took place; the main findings...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Meetings (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 307. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the inception meeting held on 9 June 2025 concerning the review of the 2001 planning guidelines for local authorities on early learning and childcare settings; to summarise the key findings discussed; to outline when the next meeting is scheduled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Meetings (26 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 308. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the number of times the working group between her Department, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of Education and Youth has met from 2024 to date in 2025; the dates when these meetings took place; when the next meeting will take place; to outline the number of times the working...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: Since the Minister took office, he has placed a significant focus on increased Garda visibility in Dublin city centre, part of which he represents as a constituency TD. His prioritisation of the city centre seems to be working, and I say "well done" on that, but there is the rest of the country and what about the rest of Dublin? It is not the first time I have raised this issue....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Bodies (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set-out his Department's engagement and collaboration with an organisation (details supplied), including participation in advisory bodies and committees, and on trade missions; his views on how the work of the organisation could be further supported by Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34582/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set out his plans to provide additional funding and to introduce changes to policy in order to support the new IDA Strategy 2025-2029; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34583/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has examined the capabilities of Irish food and drink SMEs to implement market diversification, particularly in non-English speaking markets; if new measures are being considered to support Irish business to enhance the necessary capabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34584/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (25 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the 2025 funding allocation for the National Genetics and Genomics Office on a full-year basis; the 2025 funding allocation for the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland 2022 on a full-year basis; the funding required to implement the strategy in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34580/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: I would appreciate the Minister's intervention because I find those figures shocking. We cannot wait until BusConnects is implemented in Dublin West, which could be 2027. The Minister mentioned services for Hollywoodrath, including the 37 and 38. I have fought for those enhanced services. Underinvesting in existing services ignores the commuters in established communities who want to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: There were no new bus services and limited enhancement of the existing ones. Last week, the Green Party had a motion calling on the Government not to put the brakes on progress, but under a Green Party Minister, our community saw a decline in the reliability of its services. I am depending on the Minister to take the opportunity to change that. While BusConnects is promoted as a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the investment made in enhancing existing bus services in Dublin West from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34143/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: My question is to ask the Minister for Transport to provide a breakdown of the investment made in enhancing existing bus services in Dublin West from 2020 to date. A handful of routes – four in total – have been introduced under BusConnects, mainly to replace existing services, and one new route called the W4. While we await the full implementation of BusConnects in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister. His numbers are the same as the ones I got through a parliamentary question dealing with capacity issues in each of the years 2020 to 2024. Seventeen million euro in that time had been invested in launching new bus routes in Dublin West, but, as the Minister said, just €1.6 million has been spent on enhancing existing bus services. That discrepancy tells its...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aviation Industry (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish the national policy framework for unmanned aircraft systems before the summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34142/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aviation Industry (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: My question is whether the Minister will publish the national policy framework for unmanned aircraft systems, UAS, that is, drones, before the summer recess. As part of that, will he implement U-space regulations that have been applicable in EU states since 2023? U-space provides for the creation of a new, dedicated airspace for drones. It is essentially a traffic management system that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aviation Industry (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister. It is good to see a bit of a move away from the gobbledegook that has dominated the answers I have had so far on drones. The indecipherable regulation-speak reflects the paralysis and powerlessness large sections of my community feel when they are in their homes and gardens listening to the drones above them. Dublin West is being used as a test ground for commercial...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aviation Industry (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: I am aware that there are polarised views and I am also aware of the benefits. My concern is also timing. A corporate entity operating in a space without sufficient regulation will not have the duty of care to communities that is required, and we are seeing that already. A commercial operator in our area is claiming it has received 77 complaints about 170,000 flights, but I would have had...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 183. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully on-site, hybrid, or fully remote from 2022 to date, in tabular form [33511/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with an organisation (details supplied) regarding its pre-Budget 2026 submission; if his Department has assessed the merit of its pre-Budget 2026 submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34283/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Emer Currie: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance on options to extend tax relief to more commuters and more modes of sustainable transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34284/25]