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Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I am delighted to speak on statements on policing and community safety, but if we are to be serious about this the outcome has to be that people actually feel safe in their own local communities. Unfortunately, a lot of them do not. In 2007 John Fitzgerald produced a report that led to the Limerick regeneration programme. In that report he stated that we needed a minimum of 100 extra...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I raise the issue of vacant local authority homes, of which there are always thousands across the State. There are 200 of them in Limerick at the moment, and 200 is always the number of vacant houses there. These are local authority homes that, for whatever reason, are not in use. The process of local authorities applying for funding from central government needs to be changed and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: We need a commitment from the Government that the system will be changed whereby funding is given to local authorities to speed up the restoration of voids.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what steps have been taken to address the shortage of additional need services at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8588/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (27 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason social welfare applicants who have submitted appeals are having to wait up to eight months for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8595/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State for his response and understanding of the issue. He did not get to it in his speech, but I am glad he mentioned the ongoing project in Moyross, which does good work in that area. However, it is only a drop in the ocean in dealing with the issue. Wandering, unkept and uncared-for horses have been a plague on working-class areas of Limerick for decades, as I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: In a Dáil debate on 13 December 1977, the late Mick Lipper, a Deputy from Limerick, raised the issue of wandering horses in Limerick and asked what actions the then Minister for Justice would take regarding serious problems created by them. Here we are, 47 years later, talking about the same problems. At least 1,431 wandering or stray horses have been collected in Limerick city...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of void houses in each local authority area for the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8251/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the required qualifications for executive engineering positions within local authorities; if he considers a BSc in civil engineering to be an appropriate qualification given that it is accredited by two professional organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8282/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payment applications made in the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, per county, in tabular form. [8548/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payment applications rejected in the years 2020 to 2024 and to date 2025, per county, in tabular form. [8549/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current timeline for social welfare appeals, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8550/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí currently working in each of the Garda stations in Limerick for the years 2020 to 2024, by rank, in tabular form. [8239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to address the delays in processing immigration applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8241/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the value and volume of seizures of crack cocaine and heroin in Limerick in the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form. [8242/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who presented at the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick and left the hospital before receiving treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8254/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 273. To ask the Minister for Health when the 96-bed unit, scheduled for construction, at University Hospital Limerick will become operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8255/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 274. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days per year that the full capacity protocol has been utilised at University Hospital Limerick, for the years 2011 to 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8256/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who presented at the Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick, for the years 2011 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8258/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient procedures carried out at University Hospital Limerick per department, for the years 2011 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [8259/25]