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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (26 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: This is my fifth, potentially sixth, time having a Topical issue during this Dáil year on the matter of crime in and around the constituency of Dublin Central. On none of those occasions has a Minister with responsibility for justice been here. While I appreciate that cannot always be the case, I would have expected that it would have happened on at least one of those occasions. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (26 Jun 2024)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Gannon for raising this issue and I will bring his description directly to the attention of the Minister, Deputy McEntee. It is important, as we all agree, that people feel safe and are safe in their local communities, and Dublin 7 is no exception. Community safety is not solely the responsibility of the Department of Justice or An Garda Síochána. Rather, it is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The need for this hospital has long been debated. There were delays in the initial stages about the location and it was decided that it should be in the middle of the city. I still question whether that was wise, but is too late to go back on that. If there had been delays at the beginning to ensure the design was right everybody could have understood that. However, it seems that there...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Deputy. I am happy to provide clarification. The Department has stated that the new national children's hospital has been designed and constructed in consultation with CHI and, most important, in accordance with disabled access certification. There are 5,000 rooms in the new hospital and the development board is advised that all rooms and areas are fully compliant and, as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

School Meals Programme

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Minister of State for taking this question. It is a follow-up question, as I have raised this issue previously. I point to the ambition to see every school student with a hot school meal, which has to be commended. I agree that we need to ensure that our children are given all of the support that is necessary to get them the best results and access to education. Equally, it is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The objective of the school meals programme is to provide regular nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policy to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following a significant expansion in recent years, some 2,600...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I had hoped for a more robust response from the Department. Given its commitment to the comprehensive review and “reform of oral healthcare services, including legislative reform, as set out in the national oral health policy”, I would have expected the Department to be much more stringent in its terms and specifically set out...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Dara Calleary: I would encourage the Deputy to provide the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, with the specific details of the case so that it can be followed through. The Minister is looking at reviewing and updating the legislation in the context of the wider implementation of the new national oral health policy, which envisages a fundamental reform of oral health services. Any new legislation will be informed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

National Children's Hospital

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I was stunned to read this week that the long-awaited and long-overdue national children’s hospital was set to be delayed further and that this supposedly state-of-the-art hospital may not even be accessible to wheelchair users. The Dáil was told in February that the project’s completion date would be this October and that the first patients could be expected to be treated...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

Dara Calleary: On behalf of the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, I thank Deputy Tully for raising this matter and giving me the opportunity to address the speculation about the lack of accessibility for wheelchair users at the new children’s hospital. The hospital is the largest health capital project in the history of the State and will transform the delivery of paediatric healthcare in Ireland. The...

Prelude (26 Jun 2024)

Prelude (26 Jun 2024)

Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.10 a.m.

Prelude (26 Jun 2024)

Prayer and Reflection.

Prelude (26 Jun 2024)

Paidir agus Machnamh.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Jun 2024)

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joe Flaherty - To discuss the Irish Dental Council's capacity to investigate reports of professional negligence. Deputy Mick Barry - To discuss issues arising from the recent non-custodial sentence issued in a Limerick assault...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (26 Jun 2024)

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Dental Services