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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: 267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the State has access to mother and baby records from a private nursing home (details supplied); if the public can access this information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21113/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Colm Brophy: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans to address the inadequate number of school spaces available for children with a moderate intellectual disability in the Firhouse/Knocklyon area of Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19287/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Apr 2024)

Colm Brophy: 565. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if attempts have been made by his Department to secure all mother and baby records which were kept by private nursing homes in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18884/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...play. It is not the case that we say to them they can wait until it comes onto a streaming service as an alternate way. Some people's preferred choice is to go and vote with their partner, their children or that their children go and vote with them. They want to do that and do not want to do it by postal vote. As a result, postal votes should not come into it. That is an entirely...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (5 Dec 2023)

Colm Brophy: 476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the number of creches which are withdrawing from the core funding programme since September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53435/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to bus transport for children at schools (details supplied) in Dublin South-West; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45251/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...terrorist organisations, it appropriates flags belonging to people and countries to try to make them their own. At its heart it is a pure terrorist organisation that has engaged in the slaughter of children, babies, grandparents and every age in between. We need to be very careful as a country and a Government now. I thank the Minister of State for his remarks on so many levels. We...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Colm Brophy: 594. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the number of vacant posts waiting to be filled in the Mid-West Disability Team providing services to children living in County Clare in 2022 and 2023; if he will outline the vacant posts, by discipline, in tabular form; the status on the recruitment for these vacant posts and efforts being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Horn of Africa: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (29 Nov 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...;1.5 million to Irish NGOs active on the ground. Those NGOs are doing an incredible job and are operating well above and beyond their scale and size. There was also €500,000 for UNICEF’s work with malnourished children in Kenya. This will bring Ireland’s support to the Horn of Africa in 2022 to more than €100 million. Working through trusted partners on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Horn of Africa: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (29 Nov 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...of failure. It means we as an international community took too long and waited too long to respond. The Deputy's point is so well made about frequency with which people are dying. I know the young children I saw are, by this stage, dead. As horrendous as it is, we are at a point where we can still intervene in a way we need to. On what we need to be doing, we need to be looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Horn of Africa: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (29 Nov 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...bigger impact in terms of making sure that humanitarian support goes into the country. The Deputy mentioned child-wasting. The overall facts are stark, but when it comes to what is happening to children, it is a tragedy which is difficult to comprehend. When we see first hand children in their mothers' arms, whose arms are no bigger than an adult's finger, we realise what is going on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Horn of Africa: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (29 Nov 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...to be a champion and voice for those people. A gentleman I met, who was closer to me than the Senator is now, told me that everything is dead. The livestock and grass are dead. He told me his children are dying. He asked that others keep talking for him. He did not want money, which was interesting. His call was not to try to get a few extra supports. His call was to ensure the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...through climate adaptation finance and through our development programme, is not only putting in place the immediate humanitarian aid which is needed on the spot to prevent the fact that 1.5 million children are acutely malnourished as we speak but to put in place the support mechanisms that will enable those people to change the way in which they are living. We are funding programmes...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (15 Nov 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...the furthest behind first. Ireland supports the strengthening of education systems in developing countries so that states can provide free and inclusive quality primary and secondary education for all children. Macroeconomic stability and high quality, sustainable growth are necessary conditions for success in this area. Restoring this stability and fostering conditions for such growth are...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...witnessed first-hand the absolute devastation that is happening there. People are at risk of famine of a scale we have not perhaps seen since the mid-1980s. People are currently dying. There were children suffering from malnutrition, the impact of which I saw first-hand. Mothers, fathers and community leaders talked to me directly. They asked if I would do two things. They asked if,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (5 Jul 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...consistently worked to uphold international human rights law and International Humanitarian Law, including by advocating for the rights and protection of refugees. In times of displacement, women and children are especially vulnerable. Approximately 90% of those who have fled Ukraine to date are women and children. Two of Ireland’s key humanitarian partners responding to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Terrorism (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Brophy: .... In its most recent Presidential Statement on peace consolidation in West Africa of 17 August 2021, the Security Council strongly condemned continued attacks against civilians in the region, and both attacks and threats of attacks against schools, children, and educational personnel, including abductions in Nigeria. Additionally, Ireland is a member of the International Support Group of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...s revised Humanitarian Implementation Plan (HIP) includes support to the RRP and additional funding of €13 million to Moldova. Ireland has committed to receive up to 500 Ukrainian refugees from Moldova and my Department is working with the Departments of Justice and of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the transfer of the first group in the coming...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...efforts to support over 3.5 million Ukrainian people in need, with our focus on the priorities for assistance identified by the UN.  These include cash, education, food security, health, protection for women and children, shelter and sanitation.  For example, Irish Aid assistance is enabling UNHCR to maintain 145 temporary reception centres.  To date, more than 66,000...