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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (7 Mar 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ..., special classes and special school places are provided. In 2023, my Department spent over €2.6 billion on special education and further progress will be made this year as an additional €113 million will be dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This includes funding to support children with special educational needs in mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (7 Mar 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ..., special classes and special school places are provided. In 2023, my department spent over €2.6 billion on special education and further progress will be made this year as an additional €113 million will be dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This includes funding to support children with special educational needs in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: .... Likewise, in Enterprise Ireland-supported companies, about 20 of their clients represent the vast majority of emissions. We are working directly with these companies. We will spend tens of millions of euro partnering with companies to help decarbonise their production systems. We are also looking at, as the Deputy said, increasing significantly the 4% or 5% we currently see adopting...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will respond first to some points raised by Members. Deputy Andrews inquired about the Glass Bottle site. The figures are 25% social and affordable, 10% Part V and 15% additional affordable and social. I will have to come back to him on the oversight committee. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan raised points about the rough sleeper count. Again, I will have to revert on those. Deputy Paul...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...: - Housing for All is providing record levels of funding to support the delivery of social and affordable homes by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies and the Land Development Agency; - over €5 billion in capital investment is available in 2024 through exchequer funding, Land Development Agency investment and Housing for All lending to support the delivery of Housing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (6 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Josepha Madigan: .... I appreciate his concern for the school. As I mentioned, Le Chéile National School is in the DEIS urban band 1. It is one of Limerick's newest primary schools. It opened on 1 September 2015. It has an assigned psychologist and I understand from my conversations within the Department the NCSE has visited the school on a number of occasions. Both a SENO and an adviser visited in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Mar 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ..., special classes and special school places are provided. In 2023, my department spent over €2.6 billion on special education and further progress will be made this year as an additional €113 million will be dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This includes funding to support children with special educational needs in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (5 Mar 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...hoped it would host Republic of Ireland underage matches and when the League of Ireland has an off-season, it could be a location for provincial rugby matches given this new hybrid surface, which is 95% grass and 5% artificial. Sligo Rovers Football Club is owned by the community and it is the cornerstone of the League of Ireland. I see what is happening in the capital city....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Butler: ...was really welcome. As I said, we have five full teams in place with two more being recruited at the moment in CHO 8 and CHO 7. Currently, there is none in CHO 2 Galway, Mayo, Roscommon; in CHO 5 Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny - my own area - or in CHO 9. There is a partial team in Cavan-Monaghan. We are currently looking at the €10 million spend. I have prioritised ADHD because I...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...important to reiterate that the Constitution does not say that a woman’s place is in the home. I will leave it there. This week and this past month, I have been advocating for two ladies of 85 years who are entitled and eligible for a home care support package. One lady is in receipt of some hours five days a week, but she is now entitled to and due seven-day care. Her family...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...role of women in the home. A new Article 42B will be inserted to recognise family care. The Electoral Commission is undertaking its public information campaign, with printed information being distributed to all 1.8 million households in the State. Ballot papers and polling cards have also been printed for the entire electorate and voting and counting arrangements are being made at...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...and made available to the committee. That can be done in a matter of the next few weeks. I hope we can move on from this. We need a strong RTÉ in this country. We are a small country of only 5 or 6 million people. We need to produce our own news content, our own current affairs content, our own drama, our own entertainment and our own children's and Irish-language programming....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 61 together. Under Our Rural Future, Ireland's 5 year rural development policy, Government has committed to increasing the level of investment in the repair of non-public roads thorough the Local Improvement Scheme. This reflects the important contribution which the scheme makes to connectivity in rural Ireland. There is no other source of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (5 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: ...achieved again in 2023 notwithstanding the wider construction sector environment of high inflation, labour shortages and supply chain issues. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing over €5 billion during the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost one million students and over 100,000 staff that learn...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (5 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: An implementation plan for Cineáltas was published on 10 April 2023 and commits to implementing each of the 61 actions contained in Cineáltas within a 5 year period. Work is well underway to implement many of these actions. An Implementation and Evaluation Group has been established to oversee implementation of the actions and the publication of annual implementation and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: From 2020 to Budget 2024, Exchequer funding for youth services and programmes increased from €61.8 million to €77.95 million, a 26% increase overall. My Department has not been allocated any capital funding for youth services in 2024. The funding made available for capital investment in youth services under the National Development Plan for the period 2021- 2023 was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that waiting lists for scoliosis and spina bifida services are unacceptably long. I am acutely conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families. I committed €19 million under the 2022 and 2023 Waiting List Action Plans to tackle these waiting lists. This investment has supported an increase in the number of spinal procedures undertaken in both 2022 and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

Carol Nolan: 693. To ask the Minister for Health how much of the €5 million investment from Budget 2023 to target backlogs in dental services for children and adult medical card holders has been spent in the way that it was intended; if the remainder of this money is still ringfenced to target dental waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10284/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: 778. To ask the Minister for Health how much of the €5 million investment from Budget 2023 to target backlogs in dental services for children and adult medical card holders has been spent in the way that it was intended; if the remainder of this money is still ringfenced to target dental waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10776/24]