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- 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...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: It seems that those numbers have dropped off from an earlier parliamentary question I asked. We are now talking about 98, which is the figure the group I met were spoken to about, whereas there was a plan for 101. Three classes have now dropped off. I would like to think everything will be done to make sure that is delivered because we are dealing with a lack of provision. I think the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are over time now, Deputy.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I also spoke to the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, about Shelagh National School, a primary school, to make sure it has contact. It is about building autism units already planned. That is another issue across the board.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We will be late starting the next session.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: I will bring back the name of Shelagh National School to the Minister of State. The Deputy is a very strong advocate in this space. With the recruitment of the extra NCSEs - doubling numbers - I have no doubt there is provision for a new NCSE to look after the wee county of Louth to ensure there is proper capacity building in primary and post-primary. When you look at the numbers going...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: We need to see the school inclusion model across the board so parents can get therapies.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Thank you.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (9 Oct 2024)
Road Safety
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (9 Oct 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this Topical Issue and thank the Minister of State for being here this morning. She is working overtime and should get an increase in wages, she is doing so many Topical Issues for everybody else. I also acknowledge Deputy O'Connor. Both of us are Government TDs from the same constituency and raise the same issue. I do not know if anybody...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: At the outset, I would like to offer my condolences to the Chair. I did not know John Naughten, but from everything I have heard in recent days, it is obvious that his parting will not only be a huge loss to his friends and his family but to the wider community as well. I thank the committee for its invitation to discuss the review of the rural social scheme. I am accompanied by Mr. Tony...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: The Deputy made a few points that I will come back on. Regarding the ratio of people with children on the scheme then and now, we have looked into this. We are able to ascertain who we have now, but we have not been able to get the comparative figures for before, when the rules were different. My understanding is, though, that if we were to operate on the previous rules, it would increase...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I do not want to get knotted up in a hypothetical case but in that situation Senator Murphy would be entitled to a range of payments in respect his family members as well. On what the Deputy presented there, we would not be comparing like with like. I agree with the Deputy on value for money. It is extraordinary that not only those on RSS but people on CE and Tús come out every week...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: On the last point, there is an entitlement to stay on after 60, subject to means tests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: It is gone. The six-year rule is gone.