95. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth for a full update on a proposed new school (details supplied). [74704/26]
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Séamus McGrath
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I ask the Minister of State for a full update on the school building project for Owenabue Educate Together National School, based in Carrigaline, County Cork.
I thank the Minister of State for the update on the project. This school is based in temporary accommodation at Herons Wood in Carrigaline. It is across two buildings, so it is a separated campus in that sense. The school opened its doors in 2020 and was in other temporary accommodation at that time, so it is in a second temporary accommodation at this stage. The parents, teachers and pupils desperately need some lin…
I would appreciate if the Minister of State could go back to the Department and inject some urgency in closing out stage 1 of this project. I visited the school, and while the conditions there are unsuitable in terms of the space available, it provides outstanding educational services, particularly in the area of special education. All involved deserve some degree of certainty as to where this project is going. A ver…
I want to raise a local school project, namely, the Owenabue Educate Together National School in Carrigaline. I know it is a project that the Taoiseach is familiar with. It is currently operating in temporary accommodation across two buildings in Heron's Wood estate. Fourteen months ago, the stage 1 design team addendum report was issued, but we are still waiting for stage 1 to be finalised. The current accommodation…
I want to raise a specific school project that the Minister heard about this morning. I appreciate that she will not have the information before her, but I would ask her to come back to me. It involves the amalgamation of two older primary schools at Shanbally and Ringaskiddy in County Cork. The project is to be progressed under the ADAPT 4 programme of the Department to deliver 16 new classrooms and four special edu…
I thank the Minister for being here to take this Topical Issue. It relates to pedestrian safety and, in particular, the need for pedestrians to be made safer through the introduction of traffic calming measures such as raised areas at pedestrian crossings. As the Minister knows, the trend in pedestrian deaths on our roads is going in the wrong direction. In 2025, 46 pedestrians lost their lives out of a total of 185 …
I thank the Minister. I appreciate his reply. There is some detail in it. It highlights the variations that are out there in terms of pedestrian safety, pedestrian crossings and design layout, for example, whether they have flashing beacons and whether they are signalised. Even signalised crossings vary because some of them have a flashing amber going from green to red, for example, and others do not. There is a comp…
I very much welcome this budget in its overall context. It represents an expansionary budget of €125 billion in public expenditure and a 6% uplift on last year, which is very welcome. This is necessary in the context we find ourselves in with the international challenges, the energy crisis and the significant inflationary pressures facing the Irish people. Not only are we meeting some of the needs of today but we are…
I highlight the concerns being raised about the curtailment of the domino midwifery service at Cork University Maternity Hospital, CUMH. As the Taoiseach knows, the domino service provides midwife-led, community-based maternity care, with continuity of care from pregnancy through to birth and postnatal, providing care in the community and in the home. It has emerged in recent days that due to staff shortages at CUMH,…
1. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing will meet next. [64344/26]
I thank the Taoiseach for the update on the progress made on housing. I will raise one specific issue relating to the qualifying income limits for social housing. It is the intention of the Government to increase these limits. I want to raise the issue to ensure that happens as quickly as possible. As the Taoiseach knows, the limits were last changed in 2023, which was three years ago. There are currently three bands…
15. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Taoiseach when the Cork city task force will be established. [24952/26]
I thank the Taoiseach for the update about the Cork city futures group. As he mentioned, transport is a key theme within that reference. As the Taoiseach probably knows, I have been calling for a strategic integrated transportation office to be established in Cork. It is critically important that we have all the State agencies under one roof, such as Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, the National Transport Autho…
Budget preparations will be intensifying over the summer period. With that in mind, I want to take this opportunity to raise the issue of stamp duty and first-time buyers. As the Taoiseach knows, first-time buyers have to pay 1% in stamp duty when they are purchasing a new or second-hand home. This is unfair and unjustifiable, and I ask that it be reviewed. There was waiver in place previously. At a time when house p…
I thank the Minister of State for being here to take this Topical Issue debate. I want to raise the matter of the proposed amalgamation of two schools in the lower harbour area of Cork. These are Ringaskiddy national school and Shanbally National School. This is a project that has been in the pipeline for many years but, unfortunately, remains effectively stalled and has been so for the past number of years. There is…
I thank the Minister of State. I want to put on the record my appreciation for the Minister of State taking the time to visit the school. He visited Shanbally National School and heard about Ringaskiddy national school and the conditions there, and about how critical this project was.
I want to be absolutely clear about the land and I can furnish documentation to the Minister of State. A response from a senior perso…
I raise the offence of spiking. As we know, this is where a drug is administered to somebody, without their consent, in a drink or an injection in a busy night-time scene. It is a gross invasion of an individual and it can result in catastrophic consequences such as serious sexual assault. The programme for Government states that we will impose stronger laws in relation to spiking. Currently, spiking is dealt with un…
I also want to raise summer provision, something I raised a number of weeks ago. I welcome that the application process reopened and thank the Tánaiste for that. I want to raise concerns brought to my attention by schools in respect of delays with approvals and information from the Department regarding staffing requirements, in particular for schools which are seeking additional staffing requirements to deal with chi…
1. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [12359/26]
I thank the Taoiseach for his update. I want to raise the issue of the qualifying income limits for social housing. The Minister for housing has indicated a willingness to examine these limits but I am raising it because I believe they urgently need to be increased. An increasing number of working people are finding themselves outside the social housing income limits and outside the social housing support bracket. Th…
I want to raise the issue of July provision. The summer programme is very important, providing additional educational supports to students during the summer months. Unfortunately, issues have arisen this year in relation to the application process. A very short window was open for schools to apply. Many received no notification and were not aware of the application process. Schools that have benefited from this provi…
1. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will meet next. [12360/26]
I thank the Taoiseach. I raise the issue of Cork BusConnects project. As the Taoiseach knows, Cork is a growing city but every day people are facing long commutes, unreliable journey times, whether that is in a private car or on public transport, and we have roads that simply cannot take additional capacity. BusConnects offers a real choice but unfortunately it is almost stagnant in terms of its delivery and implemen…
167. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline a timeframe for the upward revision of social housing qualifying income limits. [37496/26]