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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: It is more than 6 km from Kildare town to the Curragh Camp. No matter what road is taken, and even the motorway can be taken, there are no footpaths. The majority of the three or four routes are winding country roads, with little visibility and a lot of danger for anyone who might want to walk them. I will come back to this. I want to discuss Curragh Community College. This is, and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: The good news is that at the moment we have 20 pupils, double Bus Éireann's requirement. There is potentially another 12 students so 32 students could avail of this. These students are residing in Kildare town, some of them less than 500 yards away from the site of the very welcome, proposed new school that will be built over the next two to three years. That will accommodate 1,000...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: Go raibh maith agat. We have been here before. It has been 20 long years, as other Members said, since we saw the distressing footage of conditions at Leas Cross nursing home. Unfortunately, what we saw on the "RTÉ Investigates" programme replicated those horrific and dark days. I thank Aoife Hegarty, the "RTÉ Investigates" programme and, of course, Clare Doyle, the...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (11 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending the committee. I have a number of questions. My first is about yesterday's report on child poverty, which must concern us all in this committee. The ESRI has a report out in the newspapers this morning looking for a second-tier payment for child benefit, which it reckons would cost approximately €800 million a year. Is the...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (11 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: May I ask a question on that? Does the Minister know how many people that will bring into the carer's allowance? Does he have any indications?

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (11 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: I want to bang a drum I have been banging over the past number of years. It happened to me again on the way up in the car this morning. It concerns people being disallowed the fuel allowance because there is somebody living in the house with them who is in receipt of a social welfare payment and in employment. It is wrong because we are in the middle of a housing crisis and these people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if sanction has been given to cover a post at a health facility in County Kildare (details supplied); the timeframe for such a sanction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28893/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (29 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 679. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with the provision of a health care facility in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28894/25]

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Mark Wall: Every 40 minutes, a child is killed in Gaza. Before their childhood even begins, it is over. By the time we finish discussing this motion, at least three children will have been killed in Gaza. This is the cold, unrelenting truth we must face. It is more than a war; it is a war on childhood and on the children of Gaza because every war, no matter the context or the reason, is a war on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (28 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 358. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a procurement process was carried out by her Department for awarding a contract to a company carrying out research on the development of a national childcare agency; if so, the details of this procurement process and the details of the contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27937/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (28 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to Youthreach services in County Kildare for the past four years to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27938/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (28 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of young people availing of Youthreach services, by county, for the past four years to date, in tabular form; the numbers waiting for a Youthreach place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27939/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or the SEAI have plans to change the qualifying criteria for the warmer homes scheme including that the home must be built pre-2006, given the number of years the scheme has been in operation and that many of the houses built since 2006 are now in need of retrofit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current waiting times for the warmer homes scheme; the average waiting time in May 2024; the plans to reduce these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26937/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools will receive their allocations of SNA for the forthcoming 2025/2026 educational year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27609/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position with the opening of a secondary school in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27610/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a draft will be published of the National Plan for Irish Provision in the EY and SAC sector; if this draft will undergo a public/stakeholder consultation before it is finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27366/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 551. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will honour the State’s commitment to promote the Irish language by implementing a rights-based approach to Irish-medium immersion early childhood education and care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27367/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 552. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an official definition of Naíonra; if she will clarify if this is an Irish immersion education setting that operates through the Irish language only; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27368/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 553. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will explore the possibility of developing a public directory for Irish-medium preschool services, Naíonraí, in order that parents can access their local setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27369/25]