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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Wynne for raising this important issue and for offering the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, the opportunity to respond. I am taking the matter on his behalf. A key objective for the Department is for all children to participate in ECCE, the free pre-school programme. The early childhood care and education scheme, ECCE, is a free universal two-year pre-school programme...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate that information and background. With that in mind, I hope the Minister of State will be able to help me help Alex. She has outlined all the Department is doing with the redesign, but Alex does not have time for that redesign to go through its process and then deliver for Alex. I do not want to see Alex spend one more day in this kind of situation. It is quite dangerous in...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: As I am taking this on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, I must stick to the script. It is intended that, over time, all children with additional needs enrolled in early learning and care in school-aged children services will have access to supports under AIM. To this end, consideration is being given by officials in the Department of children to policy and mechanisms to extend AIM...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (9 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I am taking it on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Ryan. The Minister for Transport has responsibility for overall policy and Exchequer funding in relation to the national roads programme. Once funding arrangements have been put in place with TII under the Roads Acts 1993 to 2015 and in line with the national development plan, NDP, the planning,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (9 Oct 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for her response. Again, as she commented, this response is a cut-and-paste of what I have heard many times. I am sure my colleague here has heard it many times too. What is interesting here are the safety measures on the N25 between Carrigtwohill and Midleton, which is an extraordinarily dangerous and busy section of road. There is an intention to apply for...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (9 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy. I take on board totally what he just said and I will relay it back. This is about safety and saving lives. Yet again, though, I must read another such reply. I must read everything I am given because I am deputising. Approximately €411 million of Exchequer capital funds was provided to TII for national roads in 2024. In line with the NDP and Government...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Early Childhood Care and Education
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Next, I call Deputy Wynne to discuss the ECCE scheme's cut-off point for disabled children who need AIM-model funding for equipment to access preschool safety. I ask her not to mention anybody's name.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: Yes. We have another name for the child that is not the actual name, if that is okay.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: Lovely. Go raibh maith agat. I am incredibly grateful that the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, is here to take this question. It is of great local and personal importance to my constituents and to me. I had hoped the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, would take the question, but I was informed late yesterday evening that he was not in a position to do so. I will certainly not waste any time...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The development board has been before the committee several times, as the Minister will be aware, and it has appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts several times. Both committees have been utterly frustrated for a long time, because every time the board came to speak to us, its members were throwing their hands in the air and seemed completely helpless. There was a stand-off...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I apologise for interrupting. Time is ticking. What was the upshot of the meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Two weeks ago, the Minister was quoted as saying that BAM Ireland was seeking to extract as much money from the Irish taxpayer as possible. Did he repeat that charge to Royal BAM Group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What was its response?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Did it strenuously deny the charge or did it accept the Minister had a point? What was its response? It is a serious allegation to have made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Did it dispute it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Was that Royal BAM Group or BAM Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: At the meeting in July last year, at the meeting two weeks ago and indeed at previous meetings, when I asked Mr. Gunning what needed to happen for the project to get back on track, he said two things needed to happen: first, sufficient staff needed to be on site, which would be approximately double the current number, and, second, BAM Ireland needed to produce a compliance programme. Will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What commitment, if any, was given about staffing levels and doubling the current number of staff?