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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (7 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: 676. To ask the Minister for Health when a scheme will be operational (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53628/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister. Another difficulty is that the CDNT in County Cavan is led by Enable Ireland. We know it has difficulties with recruiting and retaining staff because of the issue around section 38 and section 39 workers. I know that is a broader Government issue but it needs to be addressed. Have the universities and colleges made enough places available to ensure we have the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: 86. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in recruiting therapists for primary care in counties Cavan and Monaghan, taking into account the urgent need to reduce waiting times for children with additional needs seeking to access essential supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52459/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: I have previously had the opportunity to mention to the Minister my serious concern about the ongoing delays for children with additional needs accessing therapies in Cavan and Monaghan. The delays that are occurring are absolutely unacceptable. Some children are assessed and do not get follow-up therapies and there are even delays in getting assessed. We need more clinicians in the Cavan...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: I very much appreciate the Minister's determination to deal with this issue once and for all. At my clinics last Friday night and Saturday, there were a number of young parents with children who have not got assessments or therapies. One parent spoke to me about her son who got a speech and language therapy appointment in June 2021 and has not got one since. That child got an occupational...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Facilities (2 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when details of the next community sport facilities fund will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (2 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: 44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he will implement to enable the post office network to provide additional public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52594/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in developing a new national drugs strategy; if she will ensure that adequate financial support is provided for family support services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52460/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: There are unacceptable delays in children and young adults accessing orthodontic care in Cavan and Monaghan. This morning, again, I spoke to a young mother whose 14-year-old son, with a category 5A classification in relation to provision of dental braces, was told he would be lucky to be seen in another year. Oftentimes, in relation to healthcare provision, we are told that a lack of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: Whatever obstacle there is, funding or administrative, must be removed without further delay and appropriate and timely orthodontic care must be provided for patients needing this essential treatment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: My apologies. I was in the Chamber and missed the witnesses' earlier contributions, which I welcome. I have one or two questions on the issues where a lot of streamlining is needed. To the witnesses' knowledge, are the Northern Irish or British apprenticeship systems more successful more successful than ours? How are their systems working vis-à-vis ours? Mr. Talbot mentioned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: We had the heads of the technological universities at the committee last week. I asked about the collaboration between the colleges of further education and the different institutes. Each representative replied that there was absolute collaboration and co-operation right through with education and training boards and the colleges of further education up to higher education. Is that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: I mentioned how the systems for apprenticeships and so on work in Northern Ireland and Britain. Something we should all bear in mind every day we go about our work is the need to think of the all-Ireland context. We are too small an island to ignore what is happening only a few miles away from us. I live along the Border and represent two of the southern Ulster counties so I am always...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: We need to be addressing them though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: In the public service and in the private sector as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: The witnesses also mentioned the inability of smaller scale enterprises to take on apprentices or go the apprenticeship route. I have spoken to small-scale building contractors, people providing building services or manufacturing and they are reluctant to go down route of taking on apprentices. Has any real effort been made for the sharing of the apprenticeship programme between a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: 8. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give detailed consideration to the issues outlined in correspondence from a national organisation (details supplied), in particular its ‘key recommendations’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52216/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give detailed consideration to the issues raised in correspondence by a national organisation (details supplied), in particular their proposals to assist in advancing decarbonisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52332/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 Oct 2025)

Brendan Smith: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure a substantial financial allocation under the 2026 road works programme is provided for the further planning and design of a route (details supplied) in view of its strategic importance for the Border region and the need to upgrade this road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52622/25]