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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Is féidir teacht ar Cheisteanna Scríofa ar www.oireachtas.ie. Written Answers are published on the Oireachtas website.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I attended a meeting of the European Council on 27 June in Brussels which dealt with an extensive agenda. Leaders agreed a package on appointments to key EU institutions following the European Parliament elections and adopted the EU’s strategic agenda for the next five-year institutional cycle. We also took stock of EU enlargement, and agreed a roadmap for internal reforms to ready...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Occupying two places at the one time on a particular issue is not unknown for Fianna Fáil as well. The Taoiseach might answer the question about the hypocrisy of the Government in terms of Ursula von der Leyen's support for the IDF's war on Gaza.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank colleagues for raising a variety of issues. First, Deputy Boyd Barrett and I do not agree on a lot on foreign affairs, but I have said in this House recently and in the European Council, as well saying it publicly at the peace summit on Ukraine, that I do believe there is an inconsistency in the approach being taken by many countries in relation to conflict, and not this one. I said...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Taoiseach. I cannot touch the bell, sin é an scéal. Bogfaimid ar aghaidh.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Cabinet Committees
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [29522/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [29525/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10 and 11 together. The Cabinet committee on children and education and disability oversees programme for Government commitments relating to children, education and disability and receives detailed reports on identified policy areas such as child poverty and well-being, local area disadvantage and the reform of our disability services. In addition to the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are a long way from where we need to be when it comes to supporting children with special needs and disabilities, to put it very mildly.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I agree.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As we are in the last week of this Dáil session, just let me give the Taoiseach an instance of that. In April, Greg and his wife, Celine, and Greg is an SNA by the way, were in the Public Gallery here when we debated the issue of special needs. We raised the case of his son, Lewis, who is 13, who has autism and an intellectual disability, because he has no school place. Subsequent...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is completely untenable and does not provide for the needs of this family. The parents are supposed to drive up and back to County Louth for a place that is not even suitable.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These parents have had to go to court to try to vindicate the rights of their children and still there are no placements for their children. We have to do better than this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: The way that children with additional needs are failed by this State is nothing short of scandalous. I have no end of parents contacting me who have been on waiting lists for long times and with no end in sight. What it comes down to is the understaffing and underfunding of our health service and an absence of therapists. I will give one particular example, namely, the massive shortage of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat.