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Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Joe O'Brien: ...The introduction of lower criteria for assigning stillbirth status, and the new arrangements around multiple stillbirths, will be welcomed by families dealing with the sad loss of their child or children. These changes, coupled with a more accessible register of stillbirths and an open record of stillbirths, will also provide for information around the sad loss to be more available should...

Health (Waiting Lists) Bill 2024: First Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Mark Ward: Parents of children with disabilities who are being failed by the public system should automatically be able to avail of private treatment for their children at the State's expense. Parents of children with disabilities who are waiting for assessments of need currently face extraordinarily long waiting times. While waiting for these assessments, children are often failing to reach their...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Gino Kenny: I know the Minister commented earlier on the Irish Dental Association, which has painted a stark picture of children's oral healthcare. It was before the Joint Committee on Health last year and will be again next week to address screening. More than 100,000 children did not get the basic screening in primary school. I remember, when I was growing up, a dentist coming three or four times...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...seeing a sense of ambition and urgency when it comes to that priority. We are not seeing that trickle down into Government policies. The Minister can provide figures, but the key figure of 4,000 children in homelessness remains a shameful stain on the Government's record. I repeat that the Government has to set ambitious targets to speed up delivery of homes. That is true in any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...the feedback received during the Green Paper process. Alongside this new Cabinet committee, a new national disability strategy is being developed. This is being co-ordinated by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with a whole-of-government approach.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...picture is at this point. I will ask another question. The Minister was involved in devising the new approach in respect of designated accommodation centres. Obviously, there are likely to be children in those locations. I disagree, incidentally, with being forced out after 90 days. I think that in a lot of instances people will not be in a position to find accommodation and in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...and decorating. They are not ones that should not be coming in as non-compliant. We will note that along with the rest of them. No. 2535 is from Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, dated 16 April. That is No. 2535. Deputy Murphy will need her magnifying glass here again. It looks to me like there was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...always been a firm believer that it is not possible to beat a hot meal in the middle of the day. I visited St. Thomas's Junior National School in Lucan with the Taoiseach last week. We saw the children getting their hot meals. They were all sitting down around the table. They were having their chats and eating whatever they had chosen from the menu the week before. They had a choice...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...2024, the Govemment decided to extend the payment of child benefit to 18-year-olds who are in full-time education or have a disability. This was one of my key priorities in the budget. With many children now starting primary school at age five, together with the increase in pupils doing transition year, there has been an increase in the number of 18-year-olds still in secondary...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Murphy: ...look for matching funds for sports capital grants. How do you come up with €100,000? That is a real dilemma in terms of providing sporting organisations which are the very thing that divert children away from all kinds of harm. I do not believe that can be captured in the Bill. However, it touches on the Bill in terms of how to come up with the money to provide these without...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: ...year. If one meets farmers, one might think the issues they raise have to do with income or payments. Instead, the issues they raise are very much about their sons and daughters having emigrated, their children not being keen about taking on the farms and the farmers themselves not being sure whether they should encourage their children to take on their farms, given that the farms are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Mick Barry: ...of Harvey and his family. In recent days, Harvey's mother was shocked to see an image of her son online, accompanied by a racist post saying that resources are being allocated to immigrants while children like Harvey languish on waiting lists. To her credit, Harvey's mother replied to the post and dismantled the racist arguments. For her efforts, she was bombarded with hostile messages....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...have been forced to speak publicly about what they are going through and to set up GoFundMe campaigns to get the care they need. I have spoken to parents who are at their wits' end watching their children quite literally waste away in complete disbelief that there is no support for them. I have spoken to people who work in the NHS who are seeing Irish women who are at death's door and...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024) See 10 other results from this debate

Denis Naughten: ...on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. They gave us powerful evidence about the challenges they are facing on a daily basis in providing full-time care for their disabled children. They spoke about the impact that the carer's allowance means test is having on them, on their families and on their caring roles. We need to work towards a financial system for...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (24 Apr 2024)

Jerry Buttimer: ...for Health to make a statement on staffing levels in diabetic paediatric services and its impact on the supply of diabetic pumps for patients. Senator Ollie Crowe - The need for the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to reintroduce the motorised transport grant to allow people with disabilities to access employment, and to outline the alternatives, if any,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Funding (24 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: ...of projects for delivery under the school building programme. All of this work is supporting and facilitating more than 960,000 primary and post-primary students in our school system, including more than 18,000 children from Ukraine and just over 26,000 children with additional needs enrolled in close to 3,000 special classes and in our 130 special schools. The ICT grant of €50...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Maria Byrne: ...is a fear within the services and within the different CHO areas that there will be a knock-on effect. Insulin pumps have been a life-changing experience for people with diabetes, especially for children because many are involved in activities, sitting exams or going to school. The pump picks up when a person's sugar levels are low and it automatically gives them an injection of what...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...in the main. However, those who signed up for the core funding model must supply a full chartered set of accounts. That means these providers must spend 80% of their time on administration as opposed to with the children. The Department of children should examine this requirement to see how best it can support providers going forward, particularly small operators.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Lisa Chambers: ...about whistleblowers and the importance of supporting people who come forward with vital information in the public interest. We have come a long way with regard to services, particularly for vulnerable children and adults with disabilities. It is a different country today than what it was even ten years ago. The Senator rightly acknowledged the work of the Minister of State, Deputy...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024) See 13 other results from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...that: - the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022, and the establishment of the online safety and media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, is a key Government strategy in the protection of children online; - Coimisiún na Meán is developing Ireland’s online safety framework, through binding online safety codes in its capacity as Ireland’s Digital...