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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (20 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 87. To ask the Minister for Health for an overview of the recently launched national endometriosis framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63981/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (20 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I am an endometriosis sufferer. It is physically, mentally and emotionally draining. Some days I come into this House and I am in absolute agony. I negotiate how I sit down and I am afraid I am not fit to finish the day. As the Minister knows, our job is demanding. It is people-facing. It feels like a knife-fight is going on inside you quite often. Many women and girls have to tolerate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (20 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister is absolutely correct. I ask for mental health supports alongside the framework and fertility education and counselling for women who are not ready to have children. I am blessed that I have four children. I bucked the odds. I am eternally grateful my body was able to do that for me. We need that GP training and dedicated research funding. This is an autoimmune disease. In...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (20 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I have had four. It does not fix it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Cultural Institutions (20 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to expand and prioritise capital grants for accessibility upgrades in arts centres, galleries and theatres in County Louth, with a particular focus on improving facilities for disabled performers and disabled patrons and if additional ring-fenced funding will be made available to support essential works such...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Cultural Institutions (20 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I wish to ask the Minister about his plans to expand and prioritise capital grants for accessibility upgrades in arts centres, galleries and theatres in County Louth and nationally with a particular focus on improving facilities for disabled performers and disabled patrons and whether additional ring-fenced funding will be made available to support essential works such as accessible backstage...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Cultural Institutions (20 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Under the national human rights strategy, we have an opportunity and an obligation to really drive forward all those ambitious things mentioned by the Minister. It is about making sure we have an clear and ambitious plan to expand and prioritise capital grants specifically for accessibility upgrades. The Minister mentioned the new capital plan on which the Department is working. So many of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Cultural Institutions (20 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I am really heartened by the Minister's really positive response because, as he said, culture belongs to us all. It is not just for people who are able to get access or enjoy it. I look forward to seeing the Minister bring that attitude to practical policies and ensuring that all our people can enjoy our culture and cultural experiences because we have much to offer and a lot of people are...

Paediatric Spinal Surgery Waiting Lists: Statements (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: It important to speak on this issue on behalf of children and families who have been let down. I am devastated for them. Deputies across the House are angry and upset because what unfolded in our paediatric spinal service is not just some abstract policy failure. It is a human tragedy. It is a breach of trust. It is so profound that any parent would question how they would ever rely a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The shared island unit has real potential and has had real results and benefits for County Louth and the country, as the Taoiseach said, in terms of the arts, emergency services and biodiversity. Yesterday's announcement that Dundalk Institute of Technology, DKIT, will gain university status alongside Queen's University Belfast is incredibly exciting news. It will be transformative for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 18. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on the work of the shared island unit. [48519/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Along with my constituency colleague, I want to pay respects to those poor five souls, the young people who lost their lives in the car accident at the weekend: Chloe McGee, Shay Duffy, Alan McCluskey, Dylan Commins and Chloe Hipson. It is a desperate loss for their families, friends, work colleagues and everybody. I only hope their families can find the strength to walk along the pain and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on water quality will next meet. [63428/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I am standing up here for the people of Louth because my constituents, neighbours and families are being denied essential neuro-rehabilitation services that most other regions have or plan to have. Let us be very blunt about it: Louth has no community neuro-rehabilitation team, CNRT, - not one. That is not because the need is not there; it is because one has not been provided. The HSE...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: It is a pity the Minister is not here this morning because the Minister of State is reading out a response I have received several times to parliamentary questions. I know all this stuff. I also know that Louth does not have a community rehab team. I deal quite regularly with people who have acquired brain injuries, MS, FND or Parkinson's disease and they are not being cared for. The...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Select Committee (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: We have no apologies. Members all very welcome this evening. I ask those attending remotely to mute their microphone when not contributing so that we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. I remind all of those in attendance to ensure that their mobile phones are on silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that, in...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Select Committee (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Of course.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Select Committee (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: It would be remiss of me not to say how positive this is for the entire north-east region, as Deputy Smith has said. Dundalk is my town and DKIT is hugely important to me. It will be transformative for the north east and right across the area. Economically, socially and educationally, this is going to be absolutely fantastic. There are so many opportunities. I listened to young people...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Select Committee (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: We will proceed to opening statements on the national training fund Bill, and more money for our higher and further education sector. Apologies, first we will hear from Deputy McGettigan. I apologise to the Deputy I did not see her indicating.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Select Committee (19 Nov 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I apologise again to the Deputy. We will now go to the Minister for his opening statement on the National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025.