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Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I support my colleagues Deputies Coppinger, O'Reilly and Wall in respect of amendment No. 1. I appeal to the Minister, in the spirit of meaningful collaboration on the Bill, to take on their very reasonable arguments, which have been very well articulated. If clear unfairness is identified in a Bill, it is very important that it is acknowledged and that there is not a default Government...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: There have been some exciting developments in east Cork rail over the past 16 years. The return of the Midleton to Cork line in 2009 has been hugely progressive for the region and the number of passengers is increasing year on year. Ten-minute frequencies from 2026 onwards will be a game changer as will the proposed new stations for Water Rock and Carrigtwohill west. Cobh, Carrigtwohill,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: As the Minister knows, many settlements in east Cork were devastated by flooding during Storm Babet in October 2023. I met with the Midleton and East Cork Flood Protection Group last Friday, alongside my colleague, Councillor Eamonn Horgan. There is growing concern and frustration within the community about the rate of progress of flood relief works. We have had major delays with the...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I commend the Labour Party on its motion. We fully support it. It has been an honour to meet in recent weeks with Safeguarding Ireland, Care Champions, and the Irish Association of Social Workers to discuss adult safeguarding and systemic problems within our nursing home sector and other care facilities. I look forward to engaging with Inclusion Ireland, Sage Advocacy and others to this...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I have been working with a parents' campaign group in Youghal in recent months, which is seeking the establishment of a new secondary level special education school in east Cork for children whose needs cannot be met by the autism hub in the local secondary school. As we know, parents can be left in a deeply unsettling state of uncertainty in the lead-up to a decision on their school...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: The scale of the crisis in primary care services for young people is so serious that the HSE is avoiding parliamentary questions about it. Only after 11 weeks did I receive a response from the HSE Dublin and north-east region on its psychology waiting lists, and no wonder. The longest waiting time there involves a child who was initially referred to disability services an incredible nine...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: -----that sees staffing of essential services as a cost, not as an investment.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 27. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people under the care of the Midleton, Youghal and Cobh and Glenville adult mental health teams who have been transferred to continuing care settings or high-support hostels since the Owenacurra Centre took in its last resident in February 2021; and the name and locations of those services. [34664/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 63. To ask the Minister for Health her recruitment plans to address the waiting-list crisis in child and adolescent primary care psychology services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34665/25]

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 274: In page 159, line 32, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 275: In page 160, lines 4 and 5, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 276: In page 160, line 7, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 277: In page 160, line 12, to delete “ ‘mental disorder’ ” and substitute “’mental health difficulties’”.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the witnesses from the NDA for being here today. The areas of concern outlined in Dr. Hartney's opening statement are of central importance. Continuing on a theme I spoke to at last week's meeting, I respectfully suggest that any review of children's disability network teams, CDNTs, must include primary care services or we are missing a large part of the picture of disability...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: Last week, I appealed to the CEO of the HSE, Bernard Gloster, to reconsider a significant project in Cork that will be a clear breach of the UNCRPD if it goes ahead. The HSE is proposing to invest €64 million in developing a 50-bed, centralised residential mental health facility on the grounds of St. Stephen's Hospital in Glanmire. St. Stephen's Hospital is the site of a new elective...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: We have a very concrete example here of something that, if it goes ahead, will centralise a large sum of funding in Cork for people with very high needs. Alternatively, it could take a different direction. Can the NDA, as an authority, directly comment on that or make representations to the HSE or the Minister?

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

Liam Quaide: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand rural bus services in east Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34079/25]

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

Liam Quaide: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any additional funding will be provided for the expansion of Local Link services in County Cork in the upcoming budgetary process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34080/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (24 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 181. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to address the fact that data in relation to many marginalised groups such as Travellers and Roma, migrants, disabled people, and homeless people is not included in the annual CSO Survey on Income and Living Conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency (24 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to bring some of the high-level meetings during Ireland's EU presidency to east Cork to ensure County Cork benefits from the profile the presidency brings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33870/25]