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Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Mary Butler: In May 2023, a HIQA inspection identified concerns regarding the flooring in both the sycamore and willow units at Cherry Orchard Hospital. These presented a significant potential health and safety risk and a fire risk and it was something that I could not ignore. It was proposed to remove the residents on a phased basis and, so far, 43 residents have been transferred from Cherry Orchard...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

John McGuinness: There are a significant number of parents who cannot get places in the childcare sector in Kilkenny. It is a serious issue for all concerned. I wrote to the Minister and got a very poor response. There needs to be a strong Government response to provide such places. Likewise, with regard to ASD units, schools are expressing interest, they want to have a unit and there is a demand, yet the...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: On the childcare issue, I know the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, in recent weeks allocated two lots of funding to address the issue in regard to capacity. I will raise the issue that the Deputy has raised with regard to Kilkenny. The issue of ASD places was discussed at the Cabinet subcommittee on Monday. It is a priority that no child will be without a place by September.

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: GPs in Cork have raised a concern over the removal of some 13,000 people from the waiting list on foot of a National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, validation exercise. While I appreciate that checks of the waiting list have to be made and we all want to see the waiting list come down, we want to see it come down on the basis of people not needing treatment. It is our experience and the...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Mary Butler: For somebody who is on a long-term waiting list, waiting list validation is very important. We have cases where people are on three or four waiting lists and they may already have received the treatment. If the Deputy gives me specifics of the issue in the Cork area, I can have it raised with the office of the Minister, Deputy Donnelly. I know waiting lists are falling. Validation helps...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I had the pleasure of visiting Cappoquin a number of times in the last few months to review the funding there from the rural regeneration and development fund, RRDF, which is progressing very well. I thank the Minister for that and also thank her for the recent grant of funding to Ardmore. Does the Department of Rural and Community Development have any oversight of rural supports for the...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I have been to Cappoquin many times. It is a fine place and the Deputy is doing great work there. Funding of €3.3 million was announced for Ardmore and I know the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, was very keen that we would support it. That came under the rural regeneration development programme. The Gaeltacht areas get support when they put in applications. A Gaeltacht area...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That seems like a valuable piece of advice.

Report of Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (15 May 2024)

Report of Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (15 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That, notwithstanding the Order of the Dáil of 16th December, 2020, or the Order of the Dáil of 13th December, 2023, the sequence in which Leaders shall be called upon to put questions between 17th January, 2024, and the eleventh sitting day following the summer recess of 2024, inclusive, pursuant to Standing Order 36(ca), shall be in accordance with the rota contained in...

Report of Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (15 May 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Report of Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (15 May 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 1.09 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 2.09 p.m. Sitting suspended at 1.09 p.m. and resumed at 2.09 p.m.

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I would like to follow on from Deputy Bruton's question on carers and go a step further by making a plea that we use budget 2025 as an opportunity to once and for all take away the income limit on the means test for carer's allowance. Time and again, every TD has carers coming into his or her office who are €100, €50 or €20 over the means test. There is no flexibility...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Wherever you draw the line when it comes to means tests, people will be either on this side of it or that side of it. There will always be winners and losers. No matter how high the bar goes, there will be losers. From June onwards, a carer can earn €900 per week, for a married couple, and it will not impact on their payment. That has been increased and kicks in in June. Coming up...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: In recent months, I have raised the challenges faced by Le Chéile National School in Limerick city and its need of additional supports. The school is in the second most disadvantaged area in the State, according to Pobal. There are 186 students in the school. School assessments have found 72% of children in the school have at least one additional need. Staff have pleaded for support...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: As the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, has said, we have a special Cabinet committee making sure health, education, disability and children are all working in relation to children with additional needs. Within my remit, one third of our education budget goes towards special education. For the coming school year, 400 special places are being allocated, of which 300 have already been allocated...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: My colleague, an Teachta Mairéad Farrell, has repeatedly raised the crisis in the apprenticeship system, with the major backlog and waiting time for off-the-job training. Yesterday I was contacted by a young person in Roscommon who is one of the 9,000 waiting to complete that training. He was due to start phase 2 of the training in February 2024 but has been told it will not start...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I was here yesterday when Deputy Farrell raised this matter with the Taoiseach. He said he would raise the matter with the Minister and he agreed with what Deputy Farrell was saying. We are investing in apprenticeships to meet skills needs. The apprenticeship narrative in this country has completely changed and that is a good thing. If people are waiting, we will do everything we can to...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: I ask the Minister of State about the Forty-first Amendment to the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024, which I understand is before the Seanad. Will the Government support its passage and enactment so it is ready in time for a referendum?

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Government is committed to ensuring we make patents easier to obtain in this country. As the Deputy will be aware, the Taoiseach has indicated we do not intend to have any referendums between now and the general election but this is something we will continue to work on and progress in the meantime.