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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: The Good Friday Agreement is now 27 years old. I will resurrect some research conducted around the 25th anniversary by Behaviour and Attitudes for The Sunday Times. It highlighted the attitudes of young people, including the ceasefire babies who grew up in peaceful times although very much still dealing with the legacy of conflict, paramilitarism and divided communities. Half of those 18-...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [20790/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: The Minister of State's response proves my point. I thank him for it. This is heavy on regulation rather than on the rights of residents and communities. The language used is not at all consumer friendly. Meanwhile, we are seeing the fast development, growth and expansion of these deliveries and services and they are impacting communities. We have to make sure the regulations and public...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: We have seen the rapid growth of commercial drone activity in Ireland, especially in my constituency of Dublin West. Manna Drone Delivery has been piloting a delivery service from a local base in Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and another site in the vicinity at junction six at the M50, which is the subject of some dispute. The company completes more than 300 deliveries daily within a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: When the current Tánaiste was Taoiseach, he visited Castleknock village to hear directly from our local businesses about the cost of doing business. Since then, some of our vacant units have been sold or leased, and we look forward to them all opening. However, last Friday another business closed, which had been operating for more than 20 years. As a community we want our village...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: Melo.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has conducted or commissioned a value for money assessment or audit of the performance of PSO buses purchased over recent years, particularly with respect to reports that some buses may have proven not to be fit for purpose and are now in storage and not in use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22919/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 29 April 2025, to provide details on the customer demand criteria used by Dublin Bus in its service review process; whether this category refers solely to demand on existing services, or if it also includes demand for non-existing services, such as new routes or additional services on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the procurement of the electrification of bus depots to allow for the rollout of the b-spine under the BusConnects plan in Q2 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on his Department’s engagement with the National Transport Authority regarding the creation of a transport security force, similar to the airport police and customs officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23099/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider expanding the remote working policy to include a specific organisation (details supplied); to clarify whether this organisation currently has a remote working policy in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Inquiries (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who, following divorce proceedings, no longer resides in the family home but still has their name on the property title, despite having no financial stake in the property, can be considered eligible under the ‘fresh start’ principle when applying for a local authority home loan or an affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to allowing start-up SMEs to claim the research and development tax credit over a longer period of years, noting many start-ups may have low corporation tax liabilities in their early years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22580/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (7 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to enhance the promotion of CeADAR's educational supports for Irish businesses, including free courses and access to AI regulatory sandboxes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22576/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (7 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of applicants and recipients of the grow digital voucher in 2024; the total cost of the scheme in 2024; the budget allocation for the scheme in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22578/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (7 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of applicants and recipients of the Enterprise Ireland's digital process innovation offer, in 2024; the total cost of the scheme in 2024; the budget allocation for the scheme in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22579/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timelines for public consultation and preparation of proposed new planning guidelines for solar farms, including on high-value agriculture land. [22762/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (7 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places being provided as part of each of 2024 and 2025 Springboard+ programmes for courses covering artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, software development, e-commerce, and "traditional" ICT courses; the cost of providing the courses in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22577/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Emer Currie: The programme for Government recognises the need to work in partnership with private childcare providers to make core funding work as well as taking the critical step into State-led childcare. The three main issues the Government needs to tackle are staffing, accessibility and affordability. The truth, as the Tánaiste knows, is that reliance on the private sector alone will never...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (1 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 77. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken to fulfil the programme for Government's commitments to undertake a look-back exercise to identify regulations that are now redundant, to reduce unnecessary red tape and the cost of doing business; whether this will form part of the work of the action plan on productivity and competitiveness; and if he will...