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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (30 Apr 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024) See 10 other results from this debate

Bríd Smith: I argue the national childcare scheme is not fit for purpose. It does not fit the demand and it does not fit the need we have in this country. Parents will say to us it is the most convoluted, confusing and unfair system. I will give one instance, and I am picking up on a thing that comes to my attention regularly. Parents are penalised for wanting to spend more time with their children,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Childcare Services

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

Roderic O'Gorman: One statistic that always strikes me is that Traveller children 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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)

Parental Leave

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for that. I emphasise the need for a fund for start-ups. Right now, as colleagues have said, there are problems around the country where there is no provision. Feeding into the county development plan is a great idea, but my worry is that the county development plan in County Cork was published just last year, so it will be another four years before we will see action...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

David Stanton: Again, I congratulate the Minister on the work but it strikes me it 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....

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

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy 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...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: EY has been involved in this process since November last year. Its task is to provide an independent financial assessment of the resources available to each of the organisations involved. I am not aware as to whether its analysis has been completed. Whether the report from the negotiator will be published at the end of the process will be a matter for the Government to make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Departmental Funding

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024) See 11 other results from this debate

Kathleen Funchion: When the Minister 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...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (30 Apr 2024) See 7 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 42 other results from this debate

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, knows, I come from a rural constituency in County Mayo. We do not have the transport options of those living in urban areas. How many times do we have to say that we are reliant on cars to get where we need to go? The nearest train station to me is an hour away. It is a six-hour round trip to University Hospital Galway, which many patients have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024) See 17 other results from this debate

Debate adjourned.

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

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024) See 11 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...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

Debate adjourned.

Visit of Malaysian Delegation (30 Apr 2024)