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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...are 10% less likely to take up the free two-year ECCE scheme than children from the settled community. Those kids on day one of junior infants are immediately at an educational disadvantage and they are trying to catch up from day one. We are targeting those early years, but that also includes school-age childcare. It is to recognise that the education element here is so important....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Cathal Crowe: 90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he has taken since the Government came to office to ensure family leave entitlements have been expanded, to ensure new parents have been supported and to build new entitlements to work-life balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19136/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

David Stanton: ...be another four years before we will see action there. May I ask the Minister about co-operation with schools on provision? The populations of some of our primary schools are dropping now, and they have extra rooms, which might help. What level of co-operation is there with primary schools, and should the Department and the Department of Education plan together for the needs of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

David Stanton: ...is taking an awfully long time. It could be another two years, maybe longer, before we see this in place. I asked the Minister if he would establish an interim board in order that it would be up and running and ready to go, rather than establishing a board which would then have to spend more time getting to know the brief. Is there any way of advancing it or bringing it forward? Why...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Anne Rabbitte: ...for giving me the opportunity to update the House on the four children’s disability network teams, CDNTs, in County Meath. Network 2, where the HSE is the lead agency, covers Kells, Oldcastle and north Meath, while network 6, also led by the HSE, covers Athboy, Dunboyne, Enfield, Summerhill and Trim. Enable Ireland is the lead agency for network 4, covering Ashbourne, Duleek,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...important that we have a final report. I do not think interim reports are useful in these particular situations, especially when a negotiation is ongoing. While I hear the Deputy's frustration and that of others, I do not believe in giving a running commentary in a negotiating process. I does not help its long-term goal.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Brian Leddin: 85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams available under his Department to assist with migrant integration; how much has been allocated under these funding streams this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19219/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Kathleen Funchion: ...of State says that it is a 58% staff vacancy rate, is she saying that the recruitment drive she is talking about is that to fill that 58%? Is she saying that there is a 58% shortage of staff, and is the recruitment drive she is talking about - which was at the end of January and is now in the final stages - to fill that? Okay. Perfect. As we know, there is a major issue with the pay...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (30 Apr 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for her engagement on this issue, about which we have spoken a number of times, and her constituency colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, has also been in touch on the issue. In January 2023, through the online offers portal on gov.ie, my Department received a commercial offer of temporary accommodation for beneficiaries of temporary protection fleeing the...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024) See 23 other results from this debate

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...train station to me is an hour away. It is a six-hour round trip to University Hospital Galway, which many patients have to attend on a regular basis. Before 1 April, the price of petrol and diesel was already weighing heavily on household budgets. We asked the Minister to take the decision not to increase petrol by 13 cent and diesel by 9 cent before 1 April. On my way up here...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (30 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne - To discuss the future expansion of the medical cannabis access programme. Deputy Pearse Doherty - To discuss the condemning of the building belonging to Raphoe community playgroup. Deputy Gary Gannon - To...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024) See 16 other results from this debate

Róisín Shortall: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion and providing us an opportunity to debate the cost of fuel. There is no doubt but the high price of petrol and diesel has had a huge impact on workers and families across the country, in particular in rural Ireland. That is why interventions like excise duty cuts have been required. After two years it is surely time for the Government to...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. I did not think I would get in but I am delighted to speak on the Bill today. This is a difficult and trying issue on which we have around the Houses, with investigations over the decades. I have often said how sad it was that people were put into these homes. To hear the stories related today in the Chamber is also sad. I had a lovely...

Visit of Malaysian Delegation (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...a warm céad míle fáilte to my Malaysian counterpart, the Honourable Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Johari bin Abdul, speaker of the house of representatives. He is joined by three parliamentary colleagues and by our good friend, H.E. Mr. Abdul Rashid, the Malaysian ambassador to Ireland. I hope they enjoy their visit here. Maybe I can tell Members a secret. In the course of a...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank my colleague Deputy Gannon who has very strongly and adeptly described the flaws and gaps in this legislation, and indeed the trauma still experienced by so many survivors in the State. I want to talk about another group of men and women who deserve recognition and the support of the State but who have been completely ignored by it to date, namely the survivors of Westbank...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: We proposed an amendment to the Planning and Development Bill that would increase the amount of social and affordable housing we get from developments. Currently, as the Taoiseach is aware, we get 10%, or more recently, we may get 10% affordable housing. That means 80% of what is being built is unaffordable. We proposed, like other places such as Austria, that we would increase it to 50%...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Paul Murphy: There is a serious issue with accountability regarding deaths related to the Garda. A reply to a previous parliamentary question stated that between 2007 and 2021 there were 228 fatal incidents either in or shortly after Garda custody. They were referred to GSOC. In 2005 Terrence Wheelock went out to buy a paintbrush. He was arrested by the Garda. He was brought to Store Street Garda...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024) See 10 other results from this debate

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are out of time and we cannot starting having a cross-Chamber conversation about these matters.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024) See 49 other results from this debate

Thomas Gould: Last Friday, the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, revealed that 544 families and individuals received notices to quit in Cork city in the first three months of the year. Those are people who are facing eviction in the next few months. Can you imagine being one of those parents not knowing where you and your family are going to live in a few months' time? In a seven-week period, 15,000...

Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee (30 Apr 2024)

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