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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: -----is a significant cause for concern. There is some encouragement. We ran a recruitment campaign that concluded a little while ago. At the end of May, 160 offers were made to successful candidates. I am going from memory here, rather than my note, but I think approximately 53 job offers from the figure of 160 have now been made and processed. There is another recruitment campaign...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should drop the fees for them as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: There is an interesting discussion to be had about that, particularly regarding master's level degrees. I am a big fan of reducing fees; I did it twice. At master's level in particular, there is a conversation to be had, especially if the person is willing to work in the Irish health service, about whether that is an intervention that could be made. That is under active consideration. ...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: David Teather.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: -----who is due to retire on Monday but has no wish to retire on Monday and neither do the people of Dundalk wish to see him retire. I will ask my colleague, Deputy Dillon, who is the Minister of State with responsibility in that Department, if anything can be done. There is obviously a role for the local authority there but I do not wish to speak for it. The Deputy’s office might...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: The roll-out of assistive technologies is an important point that needs to be looked at. It obviously can facilitate-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: It is an important point. What we have to look at as well as the funding of our children’s disability services is how we can use technologies and reform the delivery of services. I hear that from parents and that is one issue that is being supported.
- 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.