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Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will speak briefly to both sectors in question. What they have in common, and the motion speaks very clearly about this, is how when public goods and what should be public services are left to the private sector to the extent that they have been, you limit your levers and influence over them. The Government has many levers and influence over them, but it would be far more preferable to...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State. Next, I call Deputies Joan Collins and Thomas Pringle, who are sharing ten minutes.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. First, I thank Deputy Harkin for bringing this motion to the Dáil Chamber today. It is a very important discussion to take place. The Minister of State really only referenced the nursing home area in this, and the motion also raised the issue of childcare.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Mary Butler: I am sorry. The Minister, Roderic O'Gorman will address all of that in the closing.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Okay.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Mary Butler: The Deputy may not have heard me. Because there were two different Departments, we decided to split it that way, if that is okay.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: That is no problem. I did not hear the Minister of State say that. I generally feel that what we are seeing in our childcare and nursing home sectors are the same old repeated failures of this Government and successive governments under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, with the PDs wagging the tail of the dog a few decades ago with their neoliberal agenda of privatisation of our public...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank Deputy Harkin and her staff for bringing forward this very important motion on the challenges facing the childcare and nursing home sectors. I support this motion and its calls on the Government to put in place specific policies to ensure that, in the childcare and nursing home sectors, there is an equitable local and regional spread of affordable quality services. I am going to...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "welcomes: — the extensive commitments by the Government to address long standing challenges in the Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Childcare (SAC) sectors; — the 72 per cent increase in State funding since the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is Deputy Harkin sharing her time?

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I was told that I have 20 minutes.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy following Deputy Harkin has five minutes.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: My apologies. I have loads more to say but I will let my colleagues take on from here and I will finish later.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Connolly to speak now, please.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim míle maith ag an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach and I thank Deputy Harkin for putting the spotlight on these two issues. In four and a half minutes, I cannot do justice to this matter but I fully support the concepts behind this motion and, indeed, the Deputy has drawn attention to the ESRI report published in January last and she has read out the consequences of the policy...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Mary Butler: Is that 13 beds?

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Yes, 13 beds, at a time when the regional hospital is at absolute breaking point. I know that a Commission on Care for Older People has been set up and it is sort of pushing things. I welcome it and I look forward to its report and its recommendations but there is great urgency to that. We need to do something. Generally on what is happening with regard to privatisation, it has led to...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: - quality, accessible and affordable childcare and nursing home services are an indispensable part of the fabric of any well-functioning society, and these services support individuals and families at different stages of their lives, but most especially at both ends of life when they are in greater need of care; - services like childcare...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Minister of State has obviously been very busy, for which I thank her.