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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: This is my tenth time to raise Ballaghaderreen and the need for additional practical resources. It has received refugees and international protection persons for seven years now and has nothing to show for it. We have to battle for an extension for the local school. At long last, there has been movement. Funding for the childcare facility has been pulled and we are awaiting a decision on...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy. She has raised the issue of the need for additional support for Ballaghaderreen. We are dealing with a small but important issue in terms of access to a leisure facility service. I communicated with the Deputy on that earlier today. Where there is high pressure on health services, we look to see whether measures can be put in place that will divert some of the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)
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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (30 Apr 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024)
Hospital Waiting Lists
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: This matter relates to children with scoliosis, specifically in the context of the length of time they have to wait for surgery. I want to raise the issue of Anna Russell, who is 13 years old and is from Glengarriff in west Cork. She is truly a great kid. If the Minister of State ever has the pleasure of meeting her, he will see her charm. She is absolutely charming and I am sure the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024)
Colm Burke: The Deputy has given a very good and detailed explanation of the challenges Anna and her family face. I fully understand the situation because I have also come across constituents facing similar challenges. I am here on behalf of the Minister for Health. I thank the Deputy for raising the matter of children on waiting lists for scoliosis surgery. The Minister acknowledges that waiting...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)
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)
Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is incorrect in saying so many childcare providers are leaving the system. We saw an increase in the overall provision of childcare providers last year and we saw the lowest number of them leaving the system than in the previous five years. Second, the number of children who benefit from the NCS has doubled during my term of office. That does not suggest that parents are unhappy...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: I am afraid that in my experience, and a lot of Deputies have spoken about it in different ways tonight, the mishmash of services we have are not keeping sufficiently on top of the demand for childcare. A lot of providers are feeling pretty desperate about the sort of administration challenges they face. The reason I asked the question about the provision of a national publicly-funded and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: I absolutely agree we are not spending enough on early years but there is a reason for that. That is because the State only started to invest in childcare in 2008-2009 when the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme was first set up. Prior to that, the State stepped away entirely from the early years sector. When the Deputy compares us with Iceland and Sweden, she is comparing us...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)
Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister and want to move on to the next question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: To conclude, some of that may well be considered an element of public provision as well.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)
Marian Harkin: Minister, please. The time is up.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)
Health Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with the Minister for Health on the provision of additional medical supports for communities where Ukrainians and international protection persons have arrived; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18966/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: The Minister will be well aware of the increased pressure in many of our communities where Ukrainians and international protection persons have arrived and been welcomed, in many cases. I have raised Ballaghaderreen with the Minister many times and the pressure health services there are under. If someone moves into the area now, he or she cannot get a GP. Both GP surgeries in the town are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the whole-of-government response has been co-ordinated by a Cabinet committee chaired by the Taoiseach. Due to the impact of the dramatic increase in applicants, matters relating to international protection are also addressed at that Cabinet committee. My engagement with the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, and all other Ministers with...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)
Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. We are out of time but I will allow one minute.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)
Childcare Services